FRESH RIGS
Unit 001 · Tampa FLDusk run · FMCSA feed
85–90% of new owner-operators fail inside two years — but not before they buy everything once. A fresh authority is the hungriest buyer in trucking, and the hungriest buyer picks whoever shows up first.
FMCSA says go. That carrier needs factoring, an insurance binder, an ELD, dispatch, and a fuel card before the first load rolls. Every dollar is uncommitted.
Brokers pay in 30–45 days. Fuel is due today. The vendor whose offer landed in week one owns the account. Everyone else is a line item review away from replacement.
Accounts set, habits formed. First caller keeps the carrier for years. FreshRigs puts your name in front of them while their truck isn't even lettered yet.
The big list houses advertise "3,200 new authorities every week." The FMCSA's own daily-difference files — the very feed they resell — don't back it up. We pull the federal register ourselves and publish the number we actually deliver. No reinstatements. No transfers. No ghosts.
Not a "lead list." A carrier dossier straight off the federal filing — phone and email included, the two fields the free portals bury.
| № | Field | № | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | MC Number | 09 | Mailing Address |
| 02 | USDOT Number | 10 | Power Units |
| 03 | Legal Name | 11 | Drivers |
| 04 | DBA / Trade Name | 12 | Cargo Carried |
| 05 | Principal & Contact | 13 | Hazmat Flag |
| 06 | Direct Phone | 14 | Entity Type |
| 07 | Direct Email | 15 | State · ZIP |
| 08 | Physical Address | 16 | Authority Grant Date |
A fresh authority is the single best buying signal in trucking. If your trade touches carriers, this manifest is your market — at the exact moment it's spending.
The FMCSA Open Data feed publishes every newly-authorized carrier within days of the grant. We ingest it direct — the same source the big vendors resell, no markup.
Reinstatements, transfers, name changes — filtered. Duplicates destroyed. Phones and emails validated. What survives is only genuinely new blood.
A clean Google Sheet + CSV lands before the week starts. Sort by state, cargo, or fleet size — then feed your dialer, CRM, or sequence. Sell.
Ten founding subscribers lock $249/mo for 12 months. Cap fills, rate goes to $349 list — forever, for everyone else. Statement reads ALCHEMYSMITH.
Real rows from last week's manifest — phones, emails, grant dates and all — in your inbox within 24 hours. If they don't dial, don't subscribe. No card. No drip sequence. One email with a CSV attached.
Delivered within 24 hrs · direct from last week's file
The FMCSA Open Data Portal — the federal government's company census and daily-difference files of newly authorized motor carriers. Public record. You're paying for the extraction, the scrub, the validation, and the Monday-morning delivery — not the raw feed.
Same reason you don't drill your own well for a glass of water. The raw feed is free and unusable: bulk census dumps, cryptic schemas, no dedupe. FreshRigs turns it into a sales-ready weapon. Your reps close; they don't parse federal fixed-width files.
Authorities surface in the daily diff within days of grant. We compile the week and deliver Monday morning. When you dial, the ink on their authority is days old — not months.
Because we don't pad. "3,200 a week" counts reinstatements, transfers, and duplicates. We publish what the federal files actually support — 2,800 to 5,300 genuinely new authorities a month — and update the counter on this page every Monday. A short list of real buyers beats a fat list of ghosts.
A Google Sheet plus CSV, one row per authority, sixteen fields including direct phone and email. Drops into any dialer, CRM, or sequencing tool without massaging.
Anytime — two clicks, no retention maze. You keep every file you've received. Founding members who cancel forfeit the locked rate; re-entry is at list.
New authorities got granted while you read this page. Ten founding slots lock $249/mo for a year. After that, the same file costs $349 — and the carriers still get called by whoever moved first.