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FMCSA weekly report, 12–18 October 2026

In the week of 12–18 October 2026, FMCSA's Motus records showed 1,064 operating authorities go inactive (36 of them broker authorities) and 35 new authority applications. Liability insurance dropped off 2,101 authorities and 47 surety bonds or trust funds went off file. On FMCSA's census, 153 carriers changed phone, email and address on the same day.

Counted on 7 of 7 daysPublished 19 Oct 2026Download CSVDaily news

The week in numbers

STOP

Changes that can read STOP on a carrier check

A carrier left with no active operating authority, or with no liability insurance in force, reads STOP: it may not haul for hire.

Authorities gone inactive
1,064
36 of them broker authorities
Liability insurance dropped
2,101
Liability on file went to none
CAUTION

Changes that can read CAUTION

A required bond or cargo filing that goes missing, and mail FMCSA could not deliver, each read CAUTION.

Bonds dropped
47
Surety bond or trust fund off file
Cargo insurance dropped
24
Cargo filing off file
Returned mail flagged
16
Carriers FMCSA could not reach by mail
Context

New, reinstated and changed records

Not a verdict on their own. Changing phone, email and address at once is often routine, and it is also the step a carrier identity theft needs, so CarrierScrub shows each change on the carrier’s page.

New authority applications
35
4 for broker authority
Granted or reinstated
3,045
Motus status now Active
Phone, email and address all changed
153
9,927 changed at least one
Census status to inactive
7,335
USDOT numbers moved to inactive

Every one of these can happen to a carrier you used last month. Check a carrier before you tender, or upload your carrier list to check them all at once.

Day by day

DayGone inactiveLiability droppedBonds droppedReturned mailNew applicationsPhone, email & address
12 Oct 2026*124305800141
13 Oct 20261262798411
14 Oct 20261582261472
15 Oct 20262003057453
16 Oct 2026169338102150
17 Oct 20261643226263
18 Oct 20261233267013
Week1,0642,101471635153

* The weekly full census sweep ran this day, so its census count includes changes made without an MCS-150 filing.

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How these are counted

CarrierScrub keeps a daily copy of two FMCSA open datasets on data.transportation.gov, Motus Carrier (each operating authority's status, required cover, liability, cargo and bond on file, and returned-mail flags) and the Company Census File (phone, email, address, name and status), and compares each day with the one before. These counts are the differences. Motus is compared in full every day. The census is compared daily for carriers that filed an MCS-150 update and in full once a week, so census counts run higher on the weekly sweep. A change FMCSA makes and reverses between two runs is not seen.

Weekly figures are the sums of the daily counts from Monday to Sunday (UTC), so an authority that changed twice in a week is counted twice. A day the comparison did not run, or on which FMCSA did not republish, is shown as not counted. Week-over-week changes are given only between two complete weeks with all seven days counted. To cite this week, link to carrierscrub.com/fmcsa-weekly-report/2026-10-12.

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