DMV: Trucking companies have 90 days to pay registration fees

An excerpt from The Journal Enquirer article posted on Feb. 29, 2016 and written by Mike Savino.

Department of Motor Vehicles [Connecticut] has extended the time for truckers to pay registration fees that hadn’t been charged due to a miscalculation by the department’s software.

The DMV now is giving commercial truckers 90 days to pay fees under the International Registration Program, up from the 30-day timeframe the department had announced this month when it disclosed the problem.

The fees weren’t charged as a result of a miscalculation in software supplied by Xerox, resulting in commercial trucking companies being undercharged for registrations from 2008 to 2014.

The DMV said the problem resulted in roughly 10 percent of trucking companies statewide being undercharged, and those firms now owe a combined $73,000.

The Motor Transport Association of Connecticut, though, complained that the 30-day timeframe wasn’t long enough because companies wouldn’t have enough available money to pay the fees so quickly

Read the full article at The Journal Enquirer.

MTAC appreciates this action by DMV to give members more time to deal with this unexpected cost.