Fifty years of keeping trucks legal
Since 1973, we've done one thing: keep motor carriers compliant — plates, permits, fuel tax, drug testing — so the trucks keep moving. Half a century later, we still answer the phone, and we still know our clients by name.
The compliance department for carriers who don't have one
Consultran is a small compliance shop in Roseville, Minnesota. We handle the regulatory paperwork that keeps trucks on the road — IFTA fuel tax,IRP apportioned plates,Form 2290, USDOT and operating authority, UCR, andDOT drug-and-alcohol testing programs — for carriers across the Upper Midwest, from one-truck owner-operators to private fleets of several hundred vehicles.
Hand us everything, or just the filing you're sick of — we don't make you sign up for the whole menu. Either way, you deal with a person who knows your operation, not a ticket queue. We'll tell you what's due, when, and why — and if you'd rather learn to do something yourself, we'll teach you that too. And since 2024, throughDon Norman Associates, we help new carriers get their authority and start out right.
The people who pick up the phone
No ticket queues, no call centers. When you call Consultran, you get one of us.
How Bob ran it. How we still do.
Teach, don't just file
We can't do everything for you — and the carriers who succeed don't want us to. We show you what's due, when, and why, so nothing surprises you at a scale or in an audit.
Catch what matters
153 miles across Ohio doesn't add up, and we'll notice. We check the data before the state does — that's the difference between a clean filing and an audit.
Small enough to know you
You get a person, not a ticket queue. Some of our client relationships span three generations of the same family business.
Steady since 1973
Deregulation, new state systems, fifty Minnesota winters. We've adapted to all of it without losing the point: the filings are right, and they're on time.
We've been at this a while
Fifty years, two reinventions, and a standard that hasn't moved.
The long haul: 1973 → today
Born a tariff publisher, forced to evolve by deregulation, rebuilt as a compliance bureau. A Chicago acquisition in '75, two ownership handoffs, fifty years of filings.
Read the historyAbout Bob Sanft
First full-time employee. Owner for three decades. The teacher who set the standard we still work to.
Meet BobFifty years in, we still answer the phone.
Tell us about your operation — how many trucks, where you run — and we'll tell you exactly which filings you need and what they cost. No obligation.