Customs and Border Protection to Announce Prepayment Pilot Program
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is scheduled to announce a pilot program that would allow truckers to prepay for single-crossing access to ports of entry.
The program, which will be formally announced May 3 in the Federal Register, would allow owners, agents or drivers of a commercial truck to prepay online before arriving at a port of entry.
The way it works now, when a commercial truck arrives at a port of entry and the annual user fee has not been prepaid, the trucker must pay the single-crossing user fee upon arrival.
The pilot program will commence in the first week of June and run for about a year at ports of entry in Buffalo, New York.; El Paso, Texas; and Detroit. If the agency determines the pilot program is adequately working, officials will expand it to U.S. land border ports of entry that process commercial trucks.
The public may contact the agency to share comments about the pilot program throughout its duration.
