90-day BIT inspections for the CHP and annual federal DOT inspections, with audit-ready records kept for you.
California runs two inspection requirements at once and they catch people out. The 90-day BIT inspection is a state requirement enforced by the CHP; the annual DOT inspection is federal. They are separate obligations on separate clocks, and doing one does not cover the other.
We perform both, and we keep the records. When the CHP audits your terminal, the paperwork is the thing that decides how the audit goes — a good inspection with lost records is a bad audit.
Call For Service · 619·561·5317 ↗Required for commercial motor vehicles at or above 10,001 lbs GVWR in commercial use in California, every 90 days.
The federal annual inspection, performed to FMCSA standard.
BIT is California's, enforced by the CHP, and it is due every 90 days. DOT is federal and it is annual. They are separate requirements — most commercial vehicles operating in California need both, on their own schedules.
If your vehicle is at or above 10,001 lbs GVWR and it is in commercial use in California, yes. The CHP audits terminals against those records, and gaps in the schedule are what turn an audit into a problem.
We tell you what it is and what it will cost before we touch it. We do the repair here if you want it done, which saves moving the truck to a second shop and getting it re-inspected.
Yes. We keep audit-ready records for the work we do, which is the half of compliance that gets forgotten until the CHP is standing in your yard.
The shop is on Riverside Drive in Lakeside, so the tow is short from most of East County — and a short tow is real money on a truck that will not roll. We take work from across San Diego County.
Call the shop and talk to someone who works on trucks. No call centre, no runaround.
