FMCSA New Authority Leads — New MC Carriers Daily

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What does FMCSA New Authority Monitor do?

It builds a daily list of newly granted (or reinstated) FMCSA operating authorities (MC/FF/MX dockets) for motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders, from FMCSA's official public datasets on data.transportation.gov. Run it on a schedule with Only new items on, and each run returns only events you haven't seen yet.

• No API key, no login, no website scraping. It uses only the official open datasets. Requests are about 1 per second, with automatic backoff if the shared public rate limit is hit.
• Events: granted, reinstated, published to the FMCSA Register, pending, suspended.
• Filters: business state, authority type (carrier, broker or freight forwarder of property, household goods or passengers), minimum or maximum power units, and cargo.
• Enrichment: legal and DBA name and business address, plus fleet size, drivers, cargo and hazmat from the FMCSA Company Census.
• Webhook-ready run summary saved as SUMMARY in the run's key-value store.

Who uses new-authority alerts?

Freight brokers, insurance agents, factoring companies, dispatch services and other businesses that serve newly authorized carriers, plus analysts tracking trucking market entry.

How to get daily new MC authorities

1. Pick events (default granted) and optionally states, authority types and fleet or cargo filters.
2. Run once, then save as a Task with a daily Schedule.
3. Leave Only new items on. Each run returns only new events.

Input example

{ "events": ["granted"], "states": ["TX"], "daysBack": 2, "maxItems": 50 }

Field	What it does
events	granted (default), reinstated, published, pending, suspended, other
authorityTypes	carrier-property, carrier-household-goods, carrier-passengers, broker-property, broker-household-goods, freight-forwarder
states	Business-address state codes, e.g. TX, CA
minPowerUnits / maxPowerUnits / cargo	Census-based filters. Carriers without census data are excluded when these are set
enrichCensus	Add fleet, cargo and hazmat (default on)
includeContacts	Add phone, cell, email and officer names (default off, see below)
daysBack	Look-back by status-change date, 0–60 days (default 2)
maxItems	Per-run cap (default 20)

Output example (real record from a test run, 2026-10-30)

{
  "id": "MC45771893|granted|20261030",
  "source": "fmcsa",
  "usdotNumber": "7680021",
  "docketNumber": "MC45771893",
  "authorityType": "Motor Carrier of Property (Except Household Goods)",
  "authorityCategory": "carrier-property",
  "status": "Active",
  "reason": "Granted",
  "event": "granted",
  "statusChangeDate": "2026-10-30",
  "legalName": "Jonesn trucking llc",
  "dbaName": null,
  "street": "1082 HIGHWAY 2005",
  "city": "Pathfork",
  "state": "KY",
  "zip": "40863",
  "country": "US",
  "powerUnits": 4,
  "drivers": 3,
  "carrierOperation": "A",
  "cargo": [
    "metalsheet",
    "logpole",
    "bldgmat",
    "machlrg",
    "paperprod",
    "farmsupp",
    "construct",
    "waterwell"
  ],
  "hazmat": false,
  "saferUrl": "https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&query_string=7680021",
  "isNew": true,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-30T12:25:21.343Z"
}

Fields: usdotNumber, docketNumber, authorityType, authorityCategory, status, reason, event, statusChangeDate, legalName, dbaName, street, city, state, zip, country, powerUnits, drivers, carrierOperation, cargo, hazmat, saferUrl, plus phone, cellPhone, email, officers only when includeContacts is on.

• FMCSA's current authority types don't separate common from contract authority, so we report the type exactly as published.
• The Census can lag a brand-new authority by a day or more, so fleet and cargo fields may be empty for some new carriers.

New trucking companies by state

Set states (for example ["TX"]) and authorityTypes to ["carrier-property"], then schedule daily with Only new on to get each day's newly granted carriers in that state.

How much does it cost?

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Result	$0.003 per carrier event written to the dataset ($3 per 1,000)

Example: a daily run returning 50 new carriers costs $0.005 + $0.15 = $0.155. With Only new on, you pay only for new events. Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap spend. Platform compute is billed by Apify as usual.

Contact data: your responsibility

Contact fields come from public FMCSA filings, but many belong to owner-operators and are personal phones and emails. They are not checked against Do-Not-Call lists. If you use them for calls, texts or email, you alone are responsible for complying with the TCPA, the National and state Do-Not-Call rules, CAN-SPAM and state telemarketing and privacy laws. This is not a consumer report and must not be used for FCRA purposes.

FAQ

Do I need a key or token?

No. The Actor reads public datasets without an app token, at a polite request rate.

How fresh is the data?

FMCSA refreshes these datasets daily. Use daysBack of 2 or more on daily schedules so a late refresh isn't missed.

Is this legal advice?

No. Not affiliated with FMCSA or USDOT. Always verify authority status in FMCSA's official systems (SAFER and L&I).

Data source & terms

• Motus AuthHist – All With History: https://data.transportation.gov/d/yu5v-wbh6
• Motus Carrier – All With History: https://data.transportation.gov/d/inys-ebih
• Company Census File: https://data.transportation.gov/d/az4n-8mr2