Data report · FMCSA authority history · Updated October 9, 2026

Trucking companies that lost their operating authority, by state

Every for-hire trucking company whose FMCSA operating authority was revoked, by state and year, and the suspensions FMCSA’s new Motus system has recorded since June 2026, with the reason it gives. From FMCSA’s own public records; sortable, downloadable and free to cite.

For every 10 new trucking authorities FMCSA granted in 2025, it revoked 14. 77,355 for-hire property carrier authorities were revoked in 2025 and 54,514 were granted; revocations have outnumbered new grants every year since 2023. By company, 73,688 trucking companies lost their authority in 2025; Texas, California and Florida had the most.

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By Sam Alishahi, independent insurance broker · Legacy data through 2026-05-15 · Motus data through 2026-10-09

The latest full year

2025, nationwide

77,355for-hire property carrier authorities revoked in 2025, against 54,514 granted

73,688trucking companies lost their authority in 2025, down 8.6% from 2024 (80,646)

42%of them were based in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina

6,973property carrier authorities suspended for cancelled insurance since the Motus switch (June 1 to October 9, 2026)

By year

Revocations caught up with the 2021 boom

For-hire property carrier (common carrier) authorities revoked and granted each year, legacy FMCSA file. Grants peaked at 107,884 in 2021; revocations peaked at 108,833 in 2023. *2026 is partial: the legacy file ends May 15, 2026, when FMCSA moved registration to Motus.

By state

The 15 states where the most trucking companies lost authority in 2025

Companies (distinct USDOT numbers) whose for-hire property carrier authority was revoked in 2025, by the state of the company’s physical address.

By month

Revocations ran ahead of grants almost every month

Property carrier authorities revoked (bars) and granted (line) per month in the legacy file, January 2024 to May 2026. *May 2026 runs only through May 15, where the legacy file stops; nothing after it is in this chart.

Since June 2026

Under Motus, 93% of suspensions cite cancelled insurance

FMCSA’s Motus system records an “involuntary suspension” where the legacy system recorded a revocation, and it states the reason. These are property carrier authorities suspended per month, June 1 to October 9, 2026, by the reason given. They are a different measure from the legacy revocations above and are not added to them. The first was recorded on June 24, 2026; October 2026 is month to date. Motus records suspensions in batches, and it recorded almost none from August 8 to August 19 and September 15 to October 1, 2026, followed by catch-ups (702 on August 20, 891 on October 2), so month-to-month swings say more about FMCSA’s processing than about carriers.

What the data shows

Revocations have outnumbered new trucking authority grants every year since 2023. In 2025, 77,355 for-hire property carrier authorities were revoked and 54,514 were granted, 14 for every 10. Before 2023, grants ran ahead in 7 of the 8 years from 2015 through 2022. In 2026 through May 15, the legacy file shows 26,731 revoked and 21,586 granted.

73,688 trucking companies lost their authority in 2025. That is down 8.6% from 80,646 in 2024, and 54,306 companies were granted new property carrier authority in 2025. Counted by company, a carrier that held more than one authority is counted once.

Texas, California and Florida lead. Texas (8,815), California (8,571) and Florida (5,283) had the most companies lose authority in 2025, then Georgia (4,080), North Carolina (3,515), New Jersey (3,202), Illinois (3,169). In 2026 so far, California (3,421) is ahead of Texas (3,177). The totals follow where trucking companies are based and are not adjusted for how many carriers each state has.

New Jersey had the most companies lose authority relative to new grants. Among states where at least 500 companies were granted authority in 2025, the most companies lost authority for every 10 granted in New Jersey (19.1), Georgia (16.4), North Carolina (16.0), New York (15.5), California (15.0); the fewest in Illinois (11.1), Pennsylvania (11.1), Colorado (11.4). Nationwide it was 13.6 companies.

Since the Motus switch, 93% of suspensions cite cancelled insurance. From June 1 to October 9, 2026, Motus recorded 7,750 involuntary suspensions of property carrier authority: 6,973 because the insurance was cancelled with no replacement meeting the minimum on file, 503 for a cancelled BOC-3 process agent filing, and 231 for both. That is about 2,200 suspensions every 30 days since the first on June 24, 2026. California (1,232 companies), Texas (899) and Florida (514) had the most insurance suspensions.

Contract carriers and brokers lose authority too. Besides the 77,355 property common carrier authorities, 2025 saw 8,359 property contract carrier authorities and 5,263 property broker authorities revoked; 94,125 authorities of every type in all.

What this means for insurance

A for-hire carrier’s operating authority stays active only while two filings stay on record with FMCSA: the liability insurance filing its insurer makes (how the BMC-91X filing works) and the process agent designation (what a BOC-3 filing is). The legacy file doesn’t say why each authority was revoked, but where Motus states a reason, cancelled insurance accounts for most suspensions. In practice that means a missed payment, a non-renewal or a cancelled policy can take a truck off the road even when the company is otherwise compliant, and a new authority has to have both filings accepted before it can activate again (how long it takes to get authority active). For carriers just starting out, the coverage and filings are covered in new authority truck insurance; the entry side of this data is in new trucking companies by state.

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Every state, sortable

Click a column to sort. Counts are companies (distinct USDOT numbers) by the state of their physical address. “Lost authority” and “Granted” are for-hire property carrier authority in the legacy file; “Lost per 10 granted” is shown for states with at least 500 companies granted. The 2026 column is partial (January 1 to May 15, where the legacy file ends). The Motus column counts companies whose authority was suspended because insurance was cancelled, June 1 to October 9, 2026; it is a different measure and is not added to the others.

Rank	State	Lost authority, 2025	2024	Change	Granted, 2025	Lost per 10 granted	2026, Jan 1–May 15	Motus: insurance suspensions
1	Texas	8,815	10,447	-15.6%	6,607	13.3	3,177	899
2	California	8,571	8,769	-2.3%	5,700	15.0	3,421	1,232
3	Florida	5,283	5,635	-6.2%	3,982	13.3	1,801	514
4	Georgia	4,080	4,962	-17.8%	2,484	16.4	1,320	297
5	North Carolina	3,515	3,736	-5.9%	2,199	16.0	1,169	246
6	New Jersey	3,202	3,315	-3.4%	1,680	19.1	1,135	299
7	Illinois	3,169	3,460	-8.4%	2,866	11.1	1,170	322
8	Ohio	2,989	3,383	-11.6%	2,524	11.8	1,086	284
9	Pennsylvania	2,978	3,156	-5.6%	2,684	11.1	1,104	315
10	Indiana	1,924	1,916	+0.4%	1,692	11.4	758	184
11	Virginia	1,580	1,795	-12.0%	1,163	13.6	571	105
12	Tennessee	1,554	1,698	-8.5%	1,222	12.7	522	126
13	South Carolina	1,519	1,767	-14.0%	1,122	13.5	528	107
14	Maryland	1,462	1,734	-15.7%	1,048	14.0	481	90
15	Arizona	1,337	1,370	-2.4%	988	13.5	468	132
16	Washington	1,331	1,484	-10.3%	899	14.8	477	97
17	Michigan	1,290	1,291	-0.1%	1,061	12.2	425	102
18	New York	1,256	1,540	-18.4%	810	15.5	383	97
19	Missouri	1,210	1,406	-13.9%	865	14.0	430	75
20	Alabama	1,095	1,350	-18.9%	837	13.1	395	73
21	Minnesota	963	1,079	-10.8%	810	11.9	347	85
22	Colorado	926	1,085	-14.7%	815	11.4	371	77
23	Wisconsin	835	950	-12.1%	683	12.2	280	56
24	Massachusetts	817	895	-8.7%	678	12.1	293	64
25	Mississippi	816	1,039	-21.5%	544	15.0	295	70
26	Oklahoma	808	914	-11.6%	675	12.0	275	67
27	Kentucky	772	806	-4.2%	641	12.0	270	53
28	Nevada	737	854	-13.7%	484	—	239	62
29	Connecticut	642	672	-4.5%	513	12.5	242	32
30	Iowa	633	639	-0.9%	495	—	192	36
31	Kansas	617	602	+2.5%	446	—	204	35
32	Oregon	592	578	+2.4%	478	—	233	41
33	Utah	579	601	-3.7%	460	—	189	55
34	Louisiana	532	693	-23.2%	328	—	186	47
35	Arkansas	521	584	-10.8%	434	—	186	24
36	New Mexico	505	487	+3.7%	325	—	153	36
37	Nebraska	498	487	+2.3%	362	—	173	22
38	Idaho	410	373	+9.9%	339	—	136	34
39	Delaware	327	322	+1.6%	241	—	98	14
40	North Dakota	289	259	—	178	—	92	15
41	Wyoming	224	235	—	167	—	72	18
42	West Virginia	194	187	—	165	—	71	15
43	South Dakota	161	152	—	138	—	56	12
44	Montana	155	171	—	122	—	56	5
45	Rhode Island	154	189	—	147	—	48	14
46	New Hampshire	126	148	—	116	—	48	9
47	Maine	120	118	—	94	—	52	9
48	Vermont	64	56	—	55	—	19	3
49	Alaska	26	19	—	26	—	11	2
49	District of Columbia	26	20	—	18	—	1	3
51	Hawaii	5	3	—	7	—	2	0

Method and source

All figures come from FMCSA’s public records on the Department of Transportation’s open data portal, queried through the public API. Revocations and grants through May 15, 2026 come from the legacy authority history file (AuthHist – All With History): an authority counts as revoked in the year of its revocation decision date, and as granted in the year its grant was served. The main series is for-hire property carrier common-carrier authority; the authority-type totals count every type. The legacy file has no reason field, so it can’t separate revocations for cancelled insurance from those for a missing process agent filing. It stops on May 15, 2026, when FMCSA moved registration to its Motus system, so 2026 is partial and labeled that way.

From June 2026 the figures come from the Motus authority history file (Motus AuthHist – All With History, data through October 9, 2026): suspensions of property carrier authority whose recorded reason begins “Involuntary Suspension” or “Inactivated”, grouped by the reason category FMCSA states (insurance, BOC-3 process agent, both, or none given). Motus suspends where the legacy system revoked, so the two series are kept apart and never added together. Motus also records 704 property carrier reinstatements since June with the reason that insurance was restored; the suspension counts are not reduced by them.

National figures count authorities (docket actions). State figures count companies: the distinct USDOT numbers with a revocation or grant that year, placed in the state of the company’s physical address in FMCSA’s Company Census File. One company can hold more than one authority, so company counts are lower than authority counts. 1,454 of the 73,688 companies that lost authority in 2025 could not be placed in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia (no census match, a territory or a foreign address) and are in the national totals only. FMCSA also served 134,659 involuntary revocation notices in 2025 (all authority types); the file does not link each notice to its outcome, so this report does not estimate how many carriers fixed the problem in time. No carrier is named; only counts are published.

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