FastBOC3 Research
How Many New Trucking Authorities Are Granted Each Month, by State?
Data through September 30, 2026.
FMCSA granted 4,998 new-authority dockets (5,000 authorities) in September 2026 (carriers 4,714, brokers 275). Top states: Texas, California, and Florida. Median days from Pending to Active: 25. Data through September 30, 2026.
Reviewed by Korey Sharp-Paar · Updated
- dockets with a new grant
- 4,998
- records with reason exactly Granted
- 5,008
- median days from Pending to Active
- 25
- reinstatements, counted separately
- 2,601
5,000 distinct authorities (one docket number and one authority type) in September 2026: 4,714 carrier authorities and 275 broker authorities. An analysis of FMCSA’s public data by FastBOC3Filing, a private company (not FMCSA). Download the CSV.
September 2026 by state
Counts are distinct authorities. The state is the current business-address state in FMCSA’s carrier file. A code that is not a U.S. Postal Service or Canada Post abbreviation is shown as FMCSA published it.
| Texas | 540 | 52 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 593 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 511 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 547 |
| Florida | 341 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 380 |
| Illinois | 293 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 306 |
| Pennsylvania | 259 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 270 |
| Ohio | 220 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 227 |
| North Carolina | 202 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 213 |
| Georgia | 191 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 204 |
| New Jersey | 147 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 162 |
| Virginia | 106 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 120 |
| Arizona | 109 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 117 |
| Indiana | 106 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 110 |
| Minnesota | 85 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 96 |
| South Carolina | 91 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 |
| Tennessee | 85 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 92 |
| Maryland | 78 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 88 |
| Washington | 78 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 82 |
| Ontario | 74 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 81 |
| New York | 66 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 79 |
| Michigan | 74 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| Missouri | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| Colorado | 62 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 |
| Massachusetts | 59 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 65 |
| Alabama | 59 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 |
| Kentucky | 54 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Oklahoma | 52 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Wisconsin | 54 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 |
| Nevada | 50 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
| Mississippi | 43 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 |
| Utah | 42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Iowa | 41 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
| Louisiana | 34 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| Oregon | 36 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 37 |
| Connecticut | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| New Mexico | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| Kansas | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 |
| Arkansas | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Nebraska | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Idaho | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Delaware | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Wyoming | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| TA | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| North Dakota | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Alberta | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| South Dakota | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| West Virginia | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| CI | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Quebec | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| British Columbia | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Maine | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Montana | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| BN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Manitoba | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| SO | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Vermont | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| CH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| New Brunswick | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nova Scotia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| BS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GJ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| JA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Prince Edward Island | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Saskatchewan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Every granted authority this month matched a current state code.
National trend
Grant records are rows with reason exactly Granted. Months before May 2026 are almost empty on that reason string. That is a property of this dataset after the May 14, 2026 Motus cutover, not a finding that FMCSA granted no authorities in the legacy system.
Source: FMCSA open data via data.transportation.gov (dataset yu5v-wbh6 and inys-ebih), retrieved October 14, 2026. Analysis by Fast Filing Group.
| Month | Granted records | Authorities | Dockets |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| October 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| January 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| February 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| April 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| June 2026 | 1,778 | 1,770 | 1,770 |
| July 2026 | 2,998 | 2,995 | 2,995 |
| August 2026 | 5,591 | 5,580 | 5,579 |
| September 2026 | 5,008 | 5,000 | 4,998 |
Median days from Pending to Active
The median uses only authorities that have a Pending row on or before the grant date. 4,769 of 5,000 authorities (95.38%) have one.
| Authority type | Authorities | With a Pending row | Median days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property carrier | 4,655 | 4,440 | 25 |
| Broker | 275 | 268 | 22 |
| Passenger | 35 | 33 | 25 |
| Household goods | 24 | 18 | 36.5 |
| Freight forwarder | 11 | 10 | 30.5 |
Methodology
Source: FMCSA open data via data.transportation.gov (dataset yu5v-wbh6 and inys-ebih), retrieved October 14, 2026. Analysis by Fast Filing Group.
Grant. A grant is a row in dataset yu5v-wbh6 with reason exactly Granted. That excludes reinstatements, MOTUS consolidation corrections, and administrative corrections. In September 2026 there were 5,008 Granted rows out of 9,476 Active transitions (2,601 reinstatements, 1,686 MOTUS consolidation corrections, 176 administrative corrections, 5 withdrawn reinstatement applications).
Dockets and authorities. A docket is a distinct docket number. An authority is one docket number and one operating-authority type. 8 repeated rows of the same pair were collapsed in September 2026, leaving 5,000 authorities and 4,998 dockets. Carrier authorities are property, household goods, and passenger. Broker authorities are counted on their own.
State. The state is the current bus_state_code in dataset inys-ebih, joined on docket number, with the USDOT number used only when the docket does not match (0 this month). An unmatched authority is counted as Unknown. Unknown is 0% of authorities this month. The refresh does not publish a month when Unknown is above 2%.
Pending to Active. Days are calendar days from the latest Pending status_change_date on or before the grant date to the grant date. Authorities with no Pending row are left out of the median. The same-month series of reason exactly Granted is thin before May 2026, while the same file still contains rows whose reason is GRANTED, a different legacy string this page does not count (10,626 across these 13 months).
Checks. State rows sum to the national authority count. Counts are not negative. From September 2026 on, a month that moves more than 40% from the prior month is not published. Months through August 2026 are the Motus ramp, when this reason string goes from nearly empty to several thousand, so that percent check is not applied to them. September 2026 grant records are also compared with the public table at newtruckingcompanies.com/stats (theirs 5,008, ours 5,008, gap 0%, retrieved October 14, 2026). A gap above 10% is written on the snapshot for review and does not stop the refresh.
Reuse. The derived tables are licensed CC BY 4.0. The FMCSA source data is public-domain U.S. government work. The snapshot is refreshed on the third weekday of each month. Download the CSV.
Questions
What counts as a new authority?
A new authority on this page is an FMCSA authority-history row (dataset yu5v-wbh6) whose reason is exactly Granted. Reinstatements, MOTUS consolidation corrections, and administrative corrections are not grants. In September 2026 that filter returned 5,008 rows, out of 9,476 Active status changes. An authority is one docket number plus one operating-authority type. Repeated rows of the same pair in the month are counted once, which leaves 5,000 authorities and 4,998 dockets.
Why aren’t authority grants the same as new companies?
A grant is an authority FMCSA marked Granted. It is not a count of new companies. One docket can hold more than one authority type (5,008 grant records cover 4,998 dockets this month). A reinstatement is a returning authority and is counted separately (2,601 in September 2026). The state is the business address on file now, not necessarily the address at the time of the grant.
How do I check my own authority status?
Search FMCSA’s Motus public search at https://motus.dot.gov/public/search. Use the USDOT number or the legal name, then open the operating authority. SAFER does not show the BOC-3. The Licensing and Insurance site shows historical records only since May 14, 2026.