US carriers with active common operating authority and no BIPD on file

Generated 2026-10-22

The claim. 1,838 US-domiciled motor carriers hold active common operating authority while having no BIPD insurance on file.

By country

MX	15,071
US	1,838
CA	29

The global total is 16,938. Segmenting by country matters: applying a US filing expectation to Mexican-domiciled carriers would overstate the finding roughly ninefold.

Cross-validation

40-row random sample re-checked against live FMCSA QCMobile API (mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov)

39 of 40 confirmed against the live FMCSA API. 39/40 agreement confirms the cohort is real. The 3 carriers with allowedToOperate=N show that 'no BIPD on file' and 'not allowed to operate' are different states - our record field says one thing, FMCSA's operating decision says another. Both must be shown.

What this is not

This is not proof of uninsured operation. It is a statement about what FMCSA's public record contains on a given date. A carrier may have coverage that has not yet been filed, may have lapsed that day, or may be exempt. We report the record, not a verdict.

Correction history

2026-10-22 — was 16,938 carriers (global total, reported without segmentation); now 1,838 US-domiciled carriers. 15,071 are Mexican-domiciled and 29 Canadian; applying a US insurance-filing expectation to them was wrong.

Reproduce it

Download 6eyk-hxee as CSV, run the query above. The count must be 1,838. This script asserts that number and will refuse to publish if it changes.

SELECT * FROM read_csv('carrier_awh.csv') WHERE common_stat='A' AND (bipd_file IS NULL OR bipd_file IN ('0','00000')) AND bus_ctry_code='US'

Download the 1,838-row CSV