New authorities,
the day they are granted.

A new venture is a motor carrier whose operating authority was just granted. It has no incumbent agent, no renewal date to wait for, and a federal deadline to put a BI/PD filing on record before it can run. Market Tracker lists every grant as FMCSA publishes it, with the census identity, fleet, cargo and MOTUS contacts, and shows which ones still have no coverage on file.

✓Every operating-authority grant, from the daily federal publish
✓Filing status on each: coverage on file, or not yet
✓Fleet, cargo, radius, entity type and verified contacts attached
✓Filter by state and window; export to CSV; watch the ones you quote

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new authorities granted in September 2026

as of 2026-09-02

16,518

active authorities with no BI/PD filing on record

687

filed cancellations effective in the next 30 days

35,863

insured carriers renewing in the next 90 days

New authorities are counted by the authority-granted date in the federal register for the current calendar month. The no-filing count is carriers holding active authority with no active BI/PD filing on record today; it includes new ventures that have not bought yet and established carriers that lapsed.

Definition

Why a new venture is the cleanest lead there is.

Every for-hire carrier goes through the same sequence: register a USDOT, apply for operating authority, file proof of liability insurance, receive the grant. The insurance filing is a condition of the authority, so a carrier that has just applied is, by definition, buying. There is no incumbent to displace and no X-date to wait for.

The catch is timing. The application is public from the day it is filed, and so is the grant. Producers who work new ventures well reach the carrier in the window between the two, or in the first days after the grant when the filing is still pending. Reach them a month later and they have bought from whoever called first.

Market Tracker reads the authority register on every publish, so a grant made yesterday is in Leads today with the carrier’s census identity, fleet and cargo declaration, entity type, and the emails and phones from the MOTUS registration. The filing status column tells you whether coverage is already on record. The ones marked pending are the calls to make this morning.

How it works

The grant publishes. You call before the filing lands.

New ventures are the one lead type where a weekly list is too slow. The feed here is rebuilt daily from the federal register, and the public directory pages below show the same grants a month at a time.

The FMCSA authority register (the archive plus its live MOTUS successor) is mirrored as it publishes. Each grant becomes a dated event on the carrier: authority type, granted date, and whether a BI/PD filing is on record.

Qualify from the record02

The census declaration gives fleet size, cargo, radius and entity type; the MOTUS registration gives the contacts. The peek panel shows it without leaving the list, and the loss-risk tier reads Unrated rather than pretending a carrier with no history is safe.

Work it, then watch it03

Filter by state and window, export to CSV, or open the carrier file for a prefilled ACORD 125. Add the ones you quote to the Watch List, and get a digest the day their first filing (or their competitor’s) posts.

Three ways to find new ventures

The register, a vendor list, or the daily feed.

Every new-venture list in the trade comes from the same authority register. The difference is the lag, and what is attached to the USDOT number when it reaches you.

FMCSA register

New-venture list vendor

Market Tracker

Lag

grant to your desk

Same day, if you search it daily yourself

Weekly is typical

Daily, from the publish

True new ventures

You work it out

Some vendors separate reactivations, some do not

Grant date on record; reinstatements are their own lead type, not mixed in

Filing status

Separate L&I search per carrier

Rarely

On every row: coverage on file, or pending

Contacts

Census phone

Census phone, sometimes email

MOTUS registration emails and phones, verified flag

Fleet, cargo, radius

Census declaration, per carrier

Usually

On every row, filterable

After the first filing

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Watch List digest: who wrote it, and the X-date twelve months out

Price

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

What producers ask before they switch on the feed. Anything else, email hello@nativebase.ai.

What counts as a new venture lead?

A motor carrier whose operating authority was granted recently, by the authority-granted date in the FMCSA register. Reinstatements (authority revoked and then restored) are a separate lead type in Market Tracker so a reactivated carrier is never sold to you as a first-time buyer.

How soon after the grant does the lead appear?

On the next publish, which is daily for the authority register. The public directory pages update daily too; the difference in Market Tracker is the contacts, the filing status and the ability to filter and export across states.

Do new ventures have contact details on record?

Yes. The census carries an address and phone, and the MOTUS registration carries the emails and phone numbers the carrier entered when it applied, each marked verified or unverified. Both are on the carrier file and in the exports.

Can I see which new ventures have not bought insurance yet?

Yes. Every carrier carries its filing status. A new authority with no active BI/PD filing on record is still buying; one with a filing shows the insurer that wrote it and the estimated renewal twelve months out.

Is the safety record useful on a brand-new carrier?

Usually there is none yet, and Market Tracker says so: the loss-risk tier reads Unrated rather than Low. What is useful is the declaration (fleet, cargo, radius, hazmat) and, for chameleon checks, the related-carrier signals on the file.