FMCSA register intelligence
See who filed for authority today — not three weeks from now.
Every weekday morning, FMCSA publishes a register of brand-new operating-authority applications. We fetch it, parse it, enrich it with the federal carrier census, and hand you a clean feed of new brokers and carriers — the day they file.
From our own pipeline: official FMCSA daily registers, June 4, 2026 through June 11, 2026. Coverage began June 4, 2026 and grows every publication day.
The timing edge
Application day is the start of the buy window
A register entry is an application — a preliminary grant under 49 CFR Part 365. From that day, the clock runs: a 10-day protest window, then insurance and BOC-3 filings due within 20 days of publication, then issuance. In those first weeks the applicant is choosing insurance, factoring, ELDs, dispatch, and compliance help.
Lists built from grant-stage or census data arrive after many of those decisions are made. When we joined three days of register filings against the federal census file, only 46.4% of day-zero applicants appeared in it yet (372 of 801 unique USDOT numbers, checked June 10, 2026) — the rest hadn't propagated into that downstream file yet.
What follows a filing (49 CFR Part 365)
- Day 0 — application published in the FMCSA register as a preliminary grant
- Days 1–10 — protest window (protests must be received within 10 days)
- By day 20 — insurance + BOC-3 process-agent filings due
- After the window — unopposed, compliant applications become effective on issuance
Citations: 49 CFR 365.107T, 365.109T, 365.115. Publication is not proof of active authority.
What we track
Three signals, one pipeline
Applications, day zero
Every entry in the daily register — USDOT number, legal name, authority type, filing date, location, officer — parsed into clean CSV and JSON the morning it posts.
Granted confirmations
We re-check the federal census daily for each application we've seen and flag docket appearance and status changes, so you know when an applicant actually gets authority.
Broker bond cancellations
BFF financial-security cancellation notices, normalized as they post — an early fraud-screening signal on brokers whose bond or trust is being pulled.
Built Motus-native after FMCSA's May 14, 2026 system cutover — the migration that broke many legacy data pipelines. Everything runs on official public endpoints.
Pick your side of the desk
Two ways to use it
If you sell to new authorities
Fresh Authority Feed
Insurance agents, factoring reps, ELD and dashcam vendors, dispatch and compliance services: a daily file of day-zero prospects with enrichment as it lands.
- Free 7-day-delayed sample — judge the data before paying
- Starter $29/mo · Pro $79/mo · Team $199/mo
- CSV + JSON, state filters, agent-callable verification
If you are a new authority
New Authority Launch Kit — $49
You filed (or are about to). The kit walks you from filing to active authority and through your first quarter: federal deadlines, insurance shopping, cost and breakeven math, broker packets, and the waiting period planned day by day.
- Checklists and templates keyed to the real Part 365 deadlines
- One-time $49, files are yours
- First-year cost calculator with a breakeven model
Free, no signup
Check the data yourself first
The state pages show recent application activity by state, and the verify tool looks up any USDOT number against our dataset — useful for confirming a prospect (or a suspicious caller) actually filed.
Each carrier record is also published as plain static JSON at
/v1/carrier/{usdot}.json, so scripts and AI agents can read it
without keys or scraping.
One email a week, numbers included
A short weekly note on new-authority filing volume and what changed in the data. No spam, unsubscribe any time.