CarrierScrub
FMCSA weekly report, 19–25 October 2026
So far in the week of 19–25 October 2026, FMCSA's Motus records showed 144 operating authorities go inactive (10 of them broker authorities) and 1 new authority application. Liability insurance dropped off 282 authorities and 5 surety bonds or trust funds went off file. On FMCSA's census, 42 carriers changed phone, email and address on the same day.
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
144
10 of them broker authorities
Liability insurance dropped
282
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
5
Surety bond or trust fund off file
Cargo insurance dropped
3
Cargo filing off file
Returned mail flagged
0
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
1
Listed by Motus for the first time
Granted or reinstated
319
Motus status now Active
Phone, email and address all changed
42
1,340 changed at least one
Census status to inactive
1,734
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
| Day | Gone inactive | Liability dropped | Bonds dropped | Returned mail | New applications | Phone, email & address |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026* | 144 | 282 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 42 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | To come | |||||
| 21 Oct 2026 | To come | |||||
| 22 Oct 2026 | To come | |||||
| 23 Oct 2026 | To come | |||||
| 24 Oct 2026 | To come | |||||
| 25 Oct 2026 | To come | |||||
| Week | 144 | 282 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 42 |
The week’s headlines for brokers
Each links to the publisher; the sentence under it is CarrierScrub’s, written with AI from the headline and the publisher’s summary.
C.H. Robinson Takes Another Hit
Shippers press carriers and brokers on safety
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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/2026-10-19.
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