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The rules change. Nobody sends you the memo.

FMCSA and DOT keep rewriting the rulebook. New deadlines. New violations. New paperwork. Most fleets find out at roadside. The two-minute check below shows which federal and state rules hit your trucks today. No email to see it.

State coverage today, 22 states: TX, NY, PA, FL, MI, GA, IL, OH, MN, CA, IN, WI, KY, IA, NM, OK, LA, NJ, AZ, NV, AL, and TN. Based somewhere else? The check still runs every federal rule for your fleet — and can tell you when your state is added.

Covers federal FMCSA/DOT rules plus the state layer for the 22 states listed above; every covered program was checked against the state's own sources. Two categories sit outside this check: household-goods moving, and oversize/overweight or other special hauling permits. California CARB emissions programs are tracked as public updates with a waitlist, not personalized yet. Based somewhere else? Your result covers the federal rules only.

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Then, every Monday

The Fleet Brief reads every rule, proposed rule, and notice FMCSA publishes in the Federal Register, every day, and sends fleets like yours one short brief each Monday: what changed, whether it applies to you, and what's due next. Here's how this week's issue starts:

Issue No. 2 · Week of September 7, 2026

"FMCSA made it official on September 1: fees for the 2027 Unified Carrier Registration year are going up. The rule takes effect October 1, 2026 — the same day 2027 registration opens. At our readers' sizes: 3–5 trucks $138 to $167, 6–20 trucks $276 to $333, 21–100 trucks $963 to $1,163."

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  • The Fleet Brief every Monday: what changed, what applies to fleets like yours, what's due
  • Verified deadlines in your calendar — filings, state renewals, comment windows, and CVSA inspection blitzes as they're announced (with a heads-up in that Monday's brief). Subscribe once and new deadlines appear as rules change. Where the state assigns the renewal date to your fleet, that date is printed on your own cab card, certificate, or permit — we flag changes to the rule and never guess your date
  • An out-of-cycle alert from the editor's desk when something takes effect inside 30 days
  • Your fleet's baseline report, kept current as rules change
If we miss one: a covered rule change applies to your fleet, takes effect, and your brief didn't flag it before the effective date — we refund every subscription dollar you've paid us. Automatically.
Covered: the federal regimes, plus the state deadline programs your baseline confirms apply to your fleet — and it stops there.
Not covered until confirmed for your fleet: deadlines shown as depending on details we haven't pinned down (authority type, registrations, a truck's axle count, or a weight you weren't sure of).
Not covered: state items marked “no set date”, watch items, and California CARB.
Your fleet's own assigned dates: where the state assigns the renewal date to your fleet (IRP, Texas registration, the California MCP, the Oklahoma license year, Caltrans and Louisiana oversize permits), the date lives on your own cab card, certificate, or permit. We flag changes to the rule, not your fleet's assigned dates.
This refunds subscription fees only. It does not cover fines, penalties, legal fees, lost loads, or other damages.
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From the editor's desk

Who writes this

Software reads every FMCSA Federal Register notice, every day. A human editor checks every issue before it ships and reads everything sent to hello@thefleetbrief.com. Every claim is verified against its original official source, anything we get wrong goes in a public log, and if this brief ever winds down, subscribers hear it first. Nobody pays for a Monday that doesn't come. How each issue gets made →