New trucking companies in Houston, Texas
A new authority list for Houston, TX is the weekly New Trucking Authority List filtered to that city. FMCSA granted 97 new operating authorities to businesses listing Houston, TX 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 97 new operating authorities to businesses listing Houston, TX as their city in the 30 days from 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09 (by docket: 97 MC). 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 TX or to Houston in any spreadsheet. The file has no phone numbers, emails, street addresses or owner names; 26 of the 97 Houston names in this window were blanked by the business-name test.
Statewide sample: New trucking companies in Texas.
Local snapshot
Of the 97 grants, 85 property carriers, 11 property brokers, 1 household goods carrier. 86 of 97 (89 percent) had a liability (BIPD) filing on file at pull time. Grants fell on 26 different dates between 2026-09-10 and 2026-10-09. Rows with a ZIP code (71) span 43 ZIP codes; the most common was 77044 (4 rows). Freight context: FHWA's Interstate route log lists I-10, I-45, I-69 and I-610 as serving the Houston area (source: fhwa.dot.gov, fetched 2026-10-14). Port Houston says it owns and operates the eight public facilities along the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel (source: porthouston.com, fetched 2026-10-14).
Count: 97 new authority grants, city = Houston, state = TX, 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 Houston
How many new FMCSA authorities went to Houston businesses in the 30-day sample?
97. That breaks down as 85 property carriers, 11 property brokers and 1 household goods carrier, with grant dates from 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09. 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.
Is ZIP 77044 the busiest Houston ZIP for new authorities?
It tops the list, but only narrowly: 4 rows. Houston's 71 rows that carry a ZIP are scattered over 43 different ZIP codes. Source: same FMCSA pull.
Which interstates and port facilities are in the Houston area?
In its route log, FHWA assigns I-10, I-45, I-69 and I-610 to the Houston urban area (source: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table04.cfm, fetched 2026-10-14). On the water side, Port Houston reports that it owns and runs eight public facilities on the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel (source: https://porthouston.com/about-us/, fetched 2026-10-14).
Does the list include only Houston?
No. Each weekly file covers every state. Filter the city and state columns to Houston, TX.
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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