PRICES AS SEEN JULY 17, 2026 · EVERY SOURCE LINKED

Best DOT compliance services in 2026: an honest price comparison

Full disclosure before anything else: this page is written by ClearHaul, and ClearHaul sells these filings.Read it accordingly. What makes it useful anyway: we went to every major competitor's public pages on July 17, 2026, wrote down every price actually published, and linked each one so you can verify it yourself. Most of the industry publishes no prices at all — that finding is the real review.

Published prices, side by side

Prices below are what each company's own website displayed on July 17, 2026. A "—" means we found no published price for that service. Competitor listings don't always say whether government fees are included, which is itself part of the problem; ClearHaul prices are service fees with every government fee itemized separately before you pay.

The services that don't publish prices

As of July 17, 2026, we could find no dollar amounts on the public websites of J.J. Keller (truckingauthority.com routes to a phone number), SafeRoad Compliance (named plans, no amounts), Foley (demo request), or Simplex Group (quote-based). That's not an accusation of anything — plenty of legitimate businesses quote by phone — but it means you can't comparison-shop them without getting on a sales call, and you can't see the government fee separated from the service fee. Decide what that's worth to you.

What each of these companies is actually good at

An honest comparison cuts both ways, so here's the credit that's due:

• CNS (cnsprotects.com)— the deepest safety-compliance content library in the niche and a genuinely broad full-service offering (safety programs, audits, drug & alcohol). Their BOC-3 at $90 is priced within a dollar of ours.
• J.J. Keller— the enterprise standard for decades, with a product catalog far beyond filings. If you run 50 trucks, you're probably already their customer.
• Foley — strong drug-and-alcohol program administration and a well-maintained compliance resource library.
• DOT Compliance Group — a broad filing menu with prices on several pages (more than most publish) and year-stamped filing guides.
• DOTAuthority.com — plain-text published prices, including a $700-all-in authority package whose $400 service portion undercuts ours. Their package and ours differ in contents (see below), but they show their number, and we respect that.

About package comparisons

Authority packages are where comparison gets slippery, because contents differ. Our $599 New Authority Package includes USDOT registration, the authority application, BOC-3, Clearinghouse registration, drug-consortium enrollment setup, UCR filing, and verification of every record after filing — $945 all-infor a one-truck operation including the $300 FMCSA fee and $46 UCR fee. DOTAuthority's $700 total covers authority, the federal fee, and BOC-3. Neither is "the same thing cheaper" — list what you need first, then price it. Our free quiztells you what you need and what you don't, in writing.

How to choose (even if you don't choose us)

1. Demand the government fee as its own line.It's identical no matter who files. A service that bundles it is hiding its markup — here's every real fee.
2. Get the price in writing before the phone call. If a price only exists on a call, it can change on the call.
3. Ask what happens on rejection. Ours: service fee back, 100%.
4. Ask whether they verify the record updated — submitted is not the same as accepted and showing correctly in the federal record.
5. Check FMCSA's own warnings about registration scams and unsolicited calls at fmcsa.dot.gov/registration ↗. If a company cold-called you from public registration data, that tells you something about its customer-acquisition ethics.