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title: "Press: Rookiefeed"
url: "https://rookiefeed.com/press"
updated: "2026-10-19"
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# Press

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## About Rookiefeed

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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

## Key facts

September 20, 2026 to October 19, 2026, updated October 19, 2026.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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.

## Downloads

- New carriers by state, aggregates only (CSV): https://rookiefeed.com/api/stats/states.csv
- Full stats as markdown: https://rookiefeed.com/new-trucking-authority-stats.md
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