What is Part 365?
The FMCSA rulebook for operating authority applications, protests, transfers, and special authority rules.
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Part 365 is the FMCSA rulebook for operating authority applications. It explains how motor carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and certain Mexico-domiciled carriers apply for authority, how FMCSA reviews applications, how protests are filed, how authority transfers/name changes are handled, and what happens after an application is published.
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The FMCSA rulebook for operating authority applications, protests, transfers, and special authority rules.
Applies to carriers, brokers, forwarders, household-goods operators, Mexico-domiciled carriers, and transfers.
Authority applications need correct filing route, entity details, authority type, fees, insurance, and BOC-3.
Different authority types carry different insurance, bond, safety, and consumer-protection requirements.
FMCSA checks completeness, authority type, safety eligibility, insurance, financial responsibility, and BOC-3.
Application publication and waiting periods do not mean the authority is active yet.
Authority applications can be protested, but opposition must be timely, specific, and supported.
Authority activation may require insurance, broker bond/trust, freight forwarder filings, and BOC-3.
Transfers, name changes, mergers, and reinstatements require clean FMCSA filings and due diligence.
Mexico-domiciled authority has special scope, safety-monitoring, inspection, and application rules.
A practical checklist for entity setup, authority type, application, filings, active status, and proof.
Authority mistakes can delay launch, stop load booking, or create enforcement and insurance exposure.
DispatchHQ helps carriers and brokers organize authority applications, insurance filings, BOC-3, broker bond records, UCR, DOT updates, entity records, compliance calendars, and authority-status checks so the business does not start with paperwork problems.
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