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About Rookiefeed
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Rookiefeed (rookiefeed.com) is a daily feed of US trucking companies newly granted FMCSA operating authority and sold to freight factoring reps, truck insurance agents and dispatchers. It is made by Great Work LLC, a small independent software company. Rookiefeed is not affiliated with FMCSA or USDOT.
How to cite
Rookiefeed, "New trucking authority statistics," updated October 19, 2026, https://rookiefeed.com/new-trucking-authority-stats.
Aggregate figures are free to reuse with a link under CC BY 4.0. Please include the "updated" date, since the numbers change every morning.
Key facts
September 20, 2026 to October 19, 2026, updated October 19, 2026. These refresh daily; the stats page has the full tables.
| New for-hire carriers granted authority, last 30 days | 5,591 |
|---|---|
| Average per business day | 237 |
| Median days from application to grant (first-time carriers) | 25 (middle half 16 to 41) |
| First-time authorities | 97.9% |
| Started with one truck | 67% |
| State with the most new carriers | Texas, 642 (11.5%) |
| Most common insurer on new carriers' filings | United Financial Casualty Company (12.2%) |
| New carrier applications in the same window | 8,044 |
| New freight broker authorities in the same window | 375 |
How we count
- New carrier
- A for-hire motor carrier docket (MC number) that FMCSA moved to "Granted", dated by the day of the grant. Brokers and freight forwarders are counted separately.
- Window
- The 30 days ending on the newest grant date in the data (inclusive), so a quiet weekend doesn't shrink the totals.
- Per business day
- Total grants on Monday to Friday dates in the window, divided by the number of those dates with grants.
- First-time
- The docket had no earlier active authority.
- Days to grant
- Calendar days from the day the carrier first applied for the docket to the day FMCSA granted it. First-time authorities only, values from 0 to 365 days.
- State
- The physical business address the carrier registered with FMCSA.
- One truck
- One power unit (truck or tractor) on the carrier's FMCSA registration.
- Insurer
- The insurer on the carrier's latest BMC-91 or BMC-91X liability filing. Shares are of all new carriers, including those with no filing yet.
- Equipment
- Inferred from the cargo classes the carrier registered. One carrier can count toward several types.
Source: Rookiefeed analysis. Full definitions on the stats page.
Downloads
- New carriers by state (CSV): new carriers in 30 days, share of the US total, median days to grant, one-truck share and top insurer per state. Aggregates only, no carrier records.
- Same table as a Google Sheet that refreshes itself (makes your own copy).
- State ranking and the full stats as markdown.
- Brand pack (ZIP): logo SVG and PNG for light and dark backgrounds, square 1024px and 300px PNGs, and LinkedIn covers. Or grab one file: logo SVG, logo SVG for dark backgrounds, square 1024px PNG, mark SVG.
- Product demo video (74 seconds, MP4): the 7am email, the CSV, the dashboard and the stats pages. Carrier names and contacts in it are sample data.
