New trucking companies in Chicago, Illinois
A new authority list for Chicago, IL is the weekly New Trucking Authority List filtered to that city. FMCSA granted 51 new operating authorities to businesses listing Chicago, IL from 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09. It is for vendors who sell to new carriers. A new file covers the previous Monday to Sunday.
FMCSA granted 51 new operating authorities to businesses listing Chicago, IL as their city in the 30 days from 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09 (by docket: 50 MC and 1 FF (freight forwarder)). The count comes from public FMCSA records on data.transportation.gov and covers the city name only, not the wider metro area.
New Authority Lists turns those records into a weekly CSV, one row per docket, with USDOT number, docket number, authority type, grant date, company name (when it passes a business-name test), city, state and insurance-on-file flags. Filter it to IL or to Chicago in any spreadsheet. The file has no phone numbers, emails, street addresses or owner names; 11 of the 51 Chicago names in this window were blanked by the business-name test.
Statewide sample: New trucking companies in Illinois.
Local snapshot
Of the 51 grants, 47 property carriers, 3 property brokers, 1 freight forwarder. 46 of 51 (90 percent) had a liability (BIPD) filing on file at pull time. Grants fell on 22 different dates between 2026-09-10 and 2026-10-09. Rows with a ZIP code (40) span 25 ZIP codes; the most common was 60630 (5 rows). Freight context: FHWA's Interstate route log lists I-55, I-57, I-65, I-80, I-88, I-90, I-94, I-190, I-290, I-294 and I-355 as serving the Chicago (N.W. Indiana) (Elgin, Joliet) area (source: fhwa.dot.gov, fetched 2026-10-14).
Count: 51 new authority grants, city = Chicago, state = IL, grant_date 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09. Source: FMCSA via data.transportation.gov (yu5v-wbh6 joined to inys-ebih), pulled 2026-10-09.
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Questions about Chicago
Did any freight forwarders get new authority in Chicago?
Yes, one. Chicago's 51 grants were 47 property carriers, 3 property brokers and that single freight forwarder. Source: FMCSA via data.transportation.gov, datasets yu5v-wbh6 (Motus AuthHist) joined to inys-ebih (Motus Carrier), grant_date 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09, pulled 2026-10-09.
What portion of Chicago's new grants had a BIPD liability amount on file?
46 of 51, about 90 percent, had a nonzero BIPD figure in the carrier table when the data was pulled. None had a cargo insurance flag. Source: same FMCSA pull.
How many interstates does FHWA list for the Chicago area?
Eleven. The Chicago (N.W. Indiana) (Elgin, Joliet) entry in FHWA's route log covers I-55, I-57, I-65, I-80, I-88, I-90, I-94, I-190, I-290, I-294 and I-355 (source: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table04.cfm, fetched 2026-10-14).
Does the list include only Chicago?
No. Each weekly file covers every state. Filter the city and state columns to Chicago, IL.
Are phone numbers or emails included?
No. The file leaves out phone numbers, emails, street addresses and owner names.
How current is it?
One file each week for the previous Monday to Sunday (US Eastern), normally posted on Tuesday. FMCSA posts with a delay and can correct records at any time.
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Source
Source: FMCSA data published on data.transportation.gov (Motus AuthHist, yu5v-wbh6, and Motus Carrier, inys-ebih). New Authority Lists filtered the records, joined the two tables, dropped fields and formatted them. This is not the official record.
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