UCR Fee Calculator, 2026 and 2027

Part of Authority, Registration & Taxes

The Unified Carrier Registration fee is one federal-set amount, paid once a year through your base state, and it depends on two things: what kind of business you are and how many commercial motor vehicles you run. Pick both and this shows your bracket and your fee for the 2026 year and for 2027, when the new, higher schedule applies.

Your UCR bracket and fee

Pre-filled with a for-hire carrier running four power units. Both registration years are shown, because both are open right now.

Vehicles counted
4
Bracket
B2 (3-5)
Change, 2026 to 2027
+$29

2026 registration year

$138

49 CFR §367.40

2027 registration year

$167

49 CFR §367.50

Pay the 2027 fee before January 1, 2027 to keep running legally. If you never paid 2026, that year is still owed at the 2026 rate.

Low-poly render of three white tractor units parked nose-out side by side, each with a blank green panel across the bumper
Count power units, not trailers: three tractors are three vehicles.

What it checks

First, whether you are bracketed at all. Motor carriers, private carriers of property and freight forwarders that run vehicles pay by fleet size. Brokers and leasing companies pay the flat bracket-one fee, and so does a forwarder that operates no vehicles. A private carrier of passengers does not register. Second, the count: a commercial motor vehicle here is a self-propelled vehicle of at least 10,001 lb (GVWR or GVW, or combination weight when it pulls a trailer), a vehicle hauling placarded hazmat, or one built for more than 10 passengers including the driver. Trailers are not counted.

The fee does not depend on where you run. A carrier that only touches states outside the agreement pays the same as one that runs all of them. For the full background on who files, see UCR registration; this page only does the arithmetic.

Worked example

Four registrants through the calculator. The third row is the one worth reading: three of its trucks qualify to come off the count, and that drops it a full bracket.

RegistrantCountedBracket20262027
Owner-operator, one truck1B1$46$55
Small fleet, four power units4B2$138$167
Fleet of 22, three never leave the state19B3$276$333
Freight broker, any sizen/aFlat$46$55

Two ways to count, one way to subtract

Option A takes the power units on your most recent MCS-150, and it is the count the national registration system uses when it auto-renews you. Option B counts the vehicles you actually operated in the 12-month period ending June 30. If Option B puts you in a cheaper bracket, keep the vehicle list on Form UCR-2, because your base state can ask for it. A stale MCS-150 is the usual reason a carrier lands in the wrong bracket, so check your biennial update date while you are here.

A vehicle used only inside one state can come off the count if, during the registration year, it does not leave the state, does not carry anything that started or ends outside it, and is not on IRP apportioned plates. List each one on Form UCR-1 in case your base state asks.

Which year can you pay today?

As of October 18, 2026, both. The 2027 portal opened October 1, 2026, the same day the new 2027 fees took effect, and the 2026 year is still open for anyone who missed it. 2027 has to be paid before January 1, 2027. If you are setting up a new carrier, the registration cost calculator puts this fee beside the others.

The rule it comes from

49 CFR §367.40 holds the fees for the 2025 and 2026 registration years. §367.50 holds the fees for 2027 and every year after, added by FMCSA's final rule at 91 FR 56063 (published September 1, 2026, effective October 1, 2026). The rule describes the rise as about 20 percent on average, and still below the fees charged from 2019 through 2022.

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