Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement

What it does

FMCSA proposes amendments to its regulations governing the annual Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) Plan and Agreement registration fees that participating States collect from motor carriers, motor private carriers of property, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies. The UCR Board of Directors (Board) did not recommend any change in fees for the 2026 registration year, therefore the fees remained the same as the 2025 registration year. However, on September 18, 2025, the Board recommended a fee increase for the 2027 registration year and subsequent registration years. This recommended increase averages 20 percent, with varying increases between $9 and $9,329 per entity, depending on the applicable fee bracket. Even after the proposed increase, the fees for registration year 2027 are still less than those in effect during registration years 2019 through 2022. FMCSA proposes to adopt the recommended fee increase.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

1 part of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

49 CFR 367

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 2126-AC72 since Jan. 1, 2025.

Since then:

• May 1, 2026 Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); extension of comment period. Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement
• Sept. 1, 2026 Final rule. Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement

What happens next and when

Comments must be received on or before May 7, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket FMCSA-2025-0655 on Regulations.gov
• Title 49 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register