['Operating Authority']
['For-Hire Carrier Authority']
04/21/2025
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All interstate carriers are required to register with UCR.
Agency: New York State Department of Transportation; see Regulatory Agencies for address(es).
Authority
| Required | Agency | Name | Fee | |
| For-hire authority | Yes | New York Department of Transportation (NYDOT) | Application accompanied by a USDOT conditional or satisfactory safety rating | Yes |
| Household goods authority | Yes | New York Department of Transportation (NYDOT). Must provide two copies to the Office of Safety and Security Services. | Application accompanied by a USDOT conditional or satisfactory safety rating | Yes |
| Exempt for-hire authority | Yes | New York Department of Transportation (NYDOT) | Application accompanied by a USDOT conditional or satisfactory safety rating | Yes |
| Private authority | No | NA | NA | NA |
| Passenger authority | Yes | New York Department of Transportation (NYDOT) | Application accompanied by a USDOT conditional or satisfactory safety rating | Yes |
| Other authority | The following types of motor carriage are exempt in New York: 1. The transportation of property by or for the federal, state or municipal governments. 2. The occasional, casual or reciprocal transportation of property for compensation by any person not engaged in the transportation of property by motor vehicle as a regular occupation or business. 3. The transportation of property wholly within a municipality or between contiguous municipalities or within a commercial zone as defined by the commissioner except when such transportation is under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment to or from a point without such municipality, municipalities or commercial zone. 4. The transportation of fresh fish, live fowl and ordinary livestock except those used for exhibition or racing purposes. 5. The transportation in motor vehicles used exclusively for carrying fertilizers, soil conditioners, forestry products and agricultural commodities other than manufactured products thereof. 6. The transportation of livestock and poultry feed and feed ingredients and agricultural seeds and plants, if such products are transported to a site of agricultural production or to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural producers of goods used in agricultural production. 7. The transportation of newspapers, magazines or periodicals. 8. The transportation of property in private carriage when such transportation is incidental to and in furtherance of a primary business or farming enterprise of such person other than transportation. 9. The transportation of sand, gravel, dirt, debris, road materials, ready-mixed concrete and similar commodities when transported in dump trucks and when unloaded by being dumped. 10. The transportation of wrecked or disabled vehicles by the tow-away method. 11. The transportation by motor vehicles controlled and operated by a cooperative corporation as defined in the cooperative corporations law when such transportation activities are related to the members of the cooperative corporation. 12. The transportation of milk from the farm or farms where produced or from collection stations where milk is gathered from various farms. 13. The transportation for compensation performed by an agricultural cooperative corporation for non-members who are not farmers or cooperative corporations when such transportation is limited to that which is incidental to the agricultural cooperative corporation's primary transportation operation and is necessary for its effective performance. Such transportation shall be provided only after the agricultural cooperative corporation notifies the commissioner in writing of its intent to provide the transportation and it shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the agricultural cooperative corporation's total transportation services in each calendar year measured in terms of tonnage. The commissioner may prescribe the records to be kept and the information to be furnished by all agricultural cooperative corporations performing transportation pursuant to this subdivision. | |||
Insurance
| Required | Amount | Forms | Notes | |
| For-hire insurance | Yes | $100,000/ $300,000 public liability; $50,000 property damage (excluding cargo insurance); $5,000 for loss or damage to property being transported, each motor vehicle; and $10,000 for loss or damage to property being transported, aggregate losses or damages at any one time and place. | Form E (liability) | NA |
| Household goods insurance | Yes | $100,000/ $300,000 public liability; $50,000 property damage (excluding cargo insurance); $5,000 for loss or damage to property being transported, each motor vehicle; and $10,000 for loss or damage to property being transported, aggregate losses or damages at any one time and place. | Form E (liability) and Form H (cargo) | NA |
| Exempt for-hire insurance | Yes | $100,000/ $300,000 public liability; $50,000 property damage (excluding cargo insurance); $5,000 for loss or damage to property being transported, each motor vehicle; and $10,000 for loss or damage to property being transported, aggregate losses or damages at any one time and place. | Form E (liability) | NA |
| Private insurance | Yes | NA | NA | New York has a compulsory insurance law requiring all motor vehicles to be covered with insurance. |
| Passenger insurance | Yes | For vehicles with a seating capacity of 11 passengers or less, $100,000/ $300,000 public liability, and $50,000 property damage. For vehicles with a seating capacity of 12 passengers or more, $100,000/ $300,000 public liability, and $50,000 property damage. | Form E | NA |
| Hazardous material insurance | Yes | $5,000,000 | Form E | Carriers transporting hazardous commodities must maintain the limits as specified in 49 CFR 387.303. |
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