Where do I register for IRP in Texas?

Through TxFLEET, the TxDMV online system for apportioned registration. All new motor carrier accounts must be created there: select the option to apply for a motor carrier account and follow the prompts.

How are Texas apportioned fees calculated?

By distance share: fees are based on the percentage of distance the vehicle or fleet operates in each jurisdiction. Your reported distance sets what each jurisdiction collects.

Do I need apportioned plates if I stay inside Texas?

Apportioned registration exists for commercial vehicles operating in interstate commerce, per the TxDMV page. A truck that stays inside Texas registers through the regular commercial registration channel instead.

What is Two Steps, One Sticker?

The Texas program that folds inspection proof into registration: for apportioned vehicles, the cab card or registration receipt serves as proof of both inspection and registration, with no separate inspection sticker.

How do I change a truck or registered weight on my Texas IRP account?

Use a TxFLEET supplement to add or remove vehicles, change registered weight or the carrier responsible for safety, or request replacement credentials.

What is the Texas IRP phone number?

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles IRP page publishes no phone line. Account transactions run through the channels in the contact section below.

Texas IRP Registration: Cost and How to Apply

By Evan Reid, Founder of Haul Handbook · Updated Sep 7, 2026

Texas IRP administration

IRP member: Yes
Agency: Texas Department of Motor Vehicles
Office: TxDMV Apportioned Registration program, administered through the TxFLEET online system
Process: Carriers operating commercial vehicles in interstate commerce may qualify for apportioned registration under the International Registration Plan. All new motor carrier accounts must be created online in TxFLEET: visit TxFLEET, select Apply for Motor Carrier Account, and follow the prompts to complete the application.
Fee structure: Registration fees are based on the distance percentages the vehicle or fleet operates in each jurisdiction.
Cab card: Under the Two Steps, One Sticker program, the cab card or registration receipt serves as proof of both inspection and registration.
Process: system: TxFLEET
Process: documents: Prepare vehicle ownership evidence, business-base proof, insurance, applicable HVUT proof, and USDOT and tax identifiers for the registrant and carrier responsible for safety.
Process: documents source note: value: Account evidence checklist in the TxDMV packet, printed pages 5–6.

To work through your mileage inputs, calculate each jurisdiction’s share of your fleet miles. The estimator apportions any full-year fees you enter; it does not contain state fee schedules or issue an official quote.

More Texas IRP rules

Supplements: summary: Use a TxFLEET supplement to add or remove vehicles, change registered weight or the carrier responsible for safety, or request replacement credentials.
Contact: email: TxFLEET@TxDMV.gov
Contact: help url: https://www.txdmv.gov/motor-carriers/commercial-fleet-registration/apportioned-registration

Base jurisdiction, renewal, and audit in detail

The rules that decide whether Texas can be your base jurisdiction, what qualifies, and what happens at renewal and audit. Each one is sourced.

Base jurisdiction rules: Summary: Texas must be the fleet’s business base, a jurisdiction where it travels, and a place where its records are kept or made available.
Base jurisdiction rules: Business premises: The TxDMV packet describes owned or leased physical premises, company signage, posted business hours and staff managing trucking-related work.
Base jurisdiction rules: Minimum lease months: 12
Base jurisdiction rules: Minimum staffing hours per week: 20
Base jurisdiction rules: Evidence: TxDMV lists Texas business-registration, utility, vehicle-title and other residency evidence. Submitted documents must identify the same physical address.
Qualifying vehicles: Scope: Vehicles used in two or more member jurisdictions for property transportation or passengers for hire.
Qualifying vehicles: Two axle power unit: Gross or registered gross weight over 26,000 pounds.
Qualifying vehicles: Three or more axles: A power unit with three or more axles qualifies regardless of weight.
Qualifying vehicles: Combination: Combination gross weight over 26,000 pounds.
Qualifying vehicles: Exceptions: The packet identifies optional registration and exclusions, including lighter vehicles, recreational vehicles and restricted-use plates.
Renewal: Summary: All apportioned vehicles in a fleet share the same registration expiration date. Carriers are subject to compliance audits: each base jurisdiction is required to audit an average of 3 percent of renewed fleets annually.

Vehicle eligibility and your Texas business base

Start with the vehicle and business-base requirements listed above. Then collect the supporting documents for TxFLEET. Texas IFTA has its own eligibility definition; use the Texas IFTA guide for that separate fuel-tax account.

Setting up a Texas IRP account

Carriers operating commercial vehicles in interstate commerce may qualify for apportioned registration under the International Registration Plan. In Texas the whole process is online: open TxFLEET, choose the option to apply for a motor carrier account, and follow the prompts through the application. TxDMV requires all new accounts to start there rather than on paper.

How fees work and what the cab card does

Apportioned fees follow distance: registration is priced on the percentage of distance the vehicle or fleet runs in each jurisdiction, so your total depends on where the trucks actually operate rather than a flat state fee.

Texas folds inspection into registration under Two Steps, One Sticker: the cab card or registration receipt serves as proof of both, so there is no separate inspection sticker to track.

Renewal and audits

All apportioned vehicles in a fleet share one expiration date, which keeps renewals to a single event per year. Expect records scrutiny as part of the plan: each base jurisdiction is required to audit a set share of its renewed fleets annually, so keep distance records ready to support the percentages you report.

Renewals and supplements in TxFLEET

Choose the account task before gathering your documents: an initial application establishes the account, renewal continues the registration, and a supplement records fleet or credential changes. The supplement tasks listed above help you choose the correct TxFLEET action.

Reach the Texas IRP office

Account problems, supplement filings and credential replacements all route through the office that holds the account. Everything below is the agency's own published channel; where it publishes no phone line, the note says so rather than pointing at a permit vendor's number.

Email: TxFLEET@TxDMV.gov

What pairs with IRP

The same interstate operation that needs apportioned plates almost always needs an IFTA license through Texas, and heavy power units owe the federal Form 2290 heavy vehicle use tax before plates renew. To compare how other states run IRP, see the national IRP registration table.