IRP in New Jersey: Apportioned Registration, Fees and the Distance Schedule

New Jersey administers IRP through the Motor Vehicle Commission's Motor Carrier Services unit, with IFTA handled by the same unit — one of the states where both credentials come from one office. New Jersey is small and surrounded: New York across the Hudson, Pennsylvania across the Delaware, and the Port of New York and New Jersey generating drayage that crosses both lines daily. Almost any New Jersey fleet with a qualified vehicle is interjurisdictional, and registers with New Jersey as its base jurisdiction.

The threshold is the Plan's: a power unit over 26,000 pounds gross or registered weight, or with three or more axles, or in a combination over 26,000 pounds, operating in two or more member jurisdictions. Trailers are not apportioned; they carry an ordinary plate and travel on the power unit's cab card.

The fee is the sum of every jurisdiction's registration fee for the vehicle's weight class, each weighted by the fleet's percentage of distance there over the twelve months ending June 30 before the registration year. Registered weight is the largest lever, and the distance split is the second.

The New Jersey schedule is short in distance and crowded in crossings. A Newark or Elizabeth drayage fleet can enter New York and return several times a day, and a regional fleet touches Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Connecticut on ordinary routes. New York's Highway Use Tax applies to the New York miles on top of everything else. Trip sheets cannot capture that granularity; a telematics distance-by-jurisdiction report from continuously logged position produces the July-to-June schedule, the IFTA quarter and the HUT miles as measurements.

New Jersey State Police commercial vehicle enforcement checks cab cards, weights and ELD records on the Turnpike and the port approaches, and New York's officers check the same truck across the bridge. One telematics record behind all of it is what makes those inspections short.

The base jurisdiction can audit the distance behind an application for three years after the registration year closes, and asks for trip-level distance by jurisdiction tied to a unit and a date. GPS trip logs behind a distance report answer that; reconstructed trip sheets get the fee recalculated.