UCR fees for 2026: what every interstate carrier owes

The Unified Carrier Registration fee is annual, federal, and depends only on how many commercial motor vehicles you operate. For the 2026 registration year it runs from $46 for a one-truck operation to $44,836 for a fleet of 1,001 or more. Brokers, freight forwarders and leasing companies with no vehicles of their own pay the lowest bracket.

2026 registration year

The fee rises on October 1, 2026

FMCSA has adopted the 2027 schedule, an increase of about 20% across every bracket. It applies to registrations for the 2027 registration year, which open on October 1, 2026. If you are registering before that date you pay the 2026 fee above.

2027 registration year, from October 1, 2026

What this fee is not

UCR is one federal fee, paid once a year through a single filing. It is not your apportioned plate: IRP registration is charged separately by each state you run in, based on the miles you drive there, and is usually much larger. It is also not IFTA, not your USDOT or MC filing, and not your state's own intrastate registration. A carrier that owes UCR almost always owes several of those too.

Where these figures come from

Both tables are the fees as adopted in federal rulemaking, read from the published text: 49 CFR 367.50 and the 2027 final rule. Federal regulations and the Federal Register are works of the US Government and in the public domain. Confirm your own bracket and pay through the official system before the deadline; we are not affiliated with the UCR Plan.

Last updated 2026-09-15. Data sources are listed on each page; see About for methodology.