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Trucking authority grants & revocations, month by month.

In April 2026, FMCSA granted 6,073 new operating authorities and revoked 7,629 — a net loss of 1,556 dockets. Counted from FMCSA register actions, refreshed as filings publish.

6,073
Grants — April 2026
7,629
Revocations — April 2026
2,256
Reinstatements
−1,556
Net authority change
Trend

Grants vs. revocations — complete months.

GrantsRevocations
02k4k6k8k10kJuly ’24November ’24March ’25July ’25November ’25April ’26GrantsGrants, July ’24: 5,124Grants, August ’24: 5,601Grants, September ’24: 5,084Grants, October ’24: 5,404Grants, November ’24: 4,808Grants, December ’24: 4,102Grants, January ’25: 4,154Grants, February ’25: 4,523Grants, March ’25: 5,499Grants, April ’25: 6,060Grants, May ’25: 5,623Grants, June ’25: 5,613Grants, July ’25: 5,597Grants, August ’25: 5,493Grants, September ’25: 5,007Grants, October ’25: 5,635Grants, November ’25: 4,281Grants, December ’25: 4,593Grants, January ’26: 4,450Grants, February ’26: 4,859Grants, March ’26: 5,775Grants, April ’26: 6,073RevocationsRevocations, July ’24: 9,777Revocations, August ’24: 8,013Revocations, September ’24: 8,968Revocations, October ’24: 8,231Revocations, November ’24: 7,180Revocations, December ’24: 7,896Revocations, January ’25: 7,148Revocations, February ’25: 6,955Revocations, March ’25: 8,087Revocations, April ’25: 8,009Revocations, May ’25: 7,354Revocations, June ’25: 8,511Revocations, July ’25: 7,713Revocations, August ’25: 7,256Revocations, September ’25: 8,539Revocations, October ’25: 7,676Revocations, November ’25: 7,136Revocations, December ’25: 9,052Revocations, January ’26: 7,037Revocations, February ’26: 6,544Revocations, March ’26: 7,885Revocations, April ’26: 7,629
Monthly Data

Authority actions by month.

MonthGrantsRevocationsReinstatementsNet change
June 2026provisional1,69113195+1,678
May 2026provisional3,3373,384990−47
April 20266,0737,6292,256−1,556
March 20265,7757,8852,300−2,110
February 20264,8596,5442,061−1,685
January 20264,4507,0371,985−2,587
December 20254,5939,0521,872−4,459
November 20254,2817,1361,904−2,855
October 20255,6357,6762,186−2,041
September 20255,0078,5392,184−3,532
August 20255,4937,2562,102−1,763
July 20255,5977,7132,308−2,116
June 20255,6138,5112,223−2,898
May 20255,6237,3542,291−1,731
April 20256,0608,0092,350−1,949
March 20255,4998,0872,336−2,588
February 20254,5236,9551,974−2,432
January 20254,1547,1481,890−2,994
December 20244,1027,8961,348−3,794
November 20244,8087,1801,844−2,372
October 20245,4048,2312,387−2,827
September 20245,0848,9682,207−3,884
August 20245,6018,0132,252−2,412
July 20245,1249,7772,290−4,653
Methodology

How these numbers are counted.

CarrierOk ingests FMCSA register actions throughout the day, triggered as they publish. Each figure counts distinct dockets with a grant, revocation, or reinstatement action on a given day, summed by calendar month — so a docket revoked and reinstated in the same month appears once in each column.

Register actions publish with a lag: the trailing two months are marked provisional, appear in the table but not the chart, and fill in over subsequent updates. Snapshot last generated 2026-07-09.

Related: the market data hub tracks fleet-level capacity, and the new carrier registrations tracker covers the other side of the pipeline — carriers entering the market.

Authority grants & revocations — FAQ

In April 2026, FMCSA revoked operating authority on 7,629 dockets, while granting 6,073 new authorities and reinstating 2,256. Over the trailing 12 complete months, 62,999 authorities were granted and 92,332 were revoked.
A revocation is FMCSA withdrawing a carrier's or broker's operating authority (its MC/FF docket), most commonly for lapsed insurance (BIPD or bond), failure to maintain a process agent (BOC-3), or as a sanction. A revoked carrier cannot legally operate for-hire in interstate commerce until the authority is reinstated.
FMCSA register actions publish with a lag, so the most recent months are provisional and fill in over subsequent updates. We mark the trailing two months as provisional in the table and exclude them from the chart until they stabilize.
Grants minus revocations is the cleanest month-over-month signal of for-hire capacity change. In April 2026 the net was negative (-1,556 dockets). For fleet-level capacity — trucks observed on the road — see the monthly capacity reports on the market data hub.
CarrierOk ingests FMCSA register actions (the same source as the FMCSA Register) into its data warehouse the moment updates publish and counts distinct dockets acted on per day, summed by calendar month. The same pipeline powers authority-change alerts in CarrierOk monitoring.

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