FMCSA compliance.
Updated for the January 16, 2026 financial-responsibility rule and the pending broker-transparency NPRM. Carriers and shippers can verify our authority, bond, and transaction records at any time.
Active, authorized, and verifiable.
Operating authority
Skyline Transportation holds active FMCSA Property Broker authority. Legal name Skyline Transportation, no DBA on file, registered to 3710 E Belmont Ave, Fresno, CA 93702. Status: AUTHORIZED FOR BROKER PROPERTY.
- USDOT: 4232458
- MC (Docket): 1637675
- Entity type: Broker (Property)
- Registered state: California
How to verify
Anyone can check our license, bond status, and insurance filings against the public FMCSA databases.
- SAFER Company Snapshot — search USDOT 4232458
- FMCSA Licensing & Insurance (L&I) — search MC 1637675
- SMS Safety Profile — safety ratings, inspections, crashes
Cargo coverage & process agents
Beyond the broker bond, Skyline carries a $100,000 contingent cargo policy through Great American Insurance Company (NAIC 22136, A.M. Best A+ rated). It backstops carrier cargo coverage in the rare event a carrier policy fails to respond.
We also maintain BOC-3 process agent designations in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, so legal service can be effected on Skyline anywhere we book freight. BOC-3 filing on record with FMCSA since April 2024.
$75K bond, strictly maintained.
On January 16, 2026, FMCSA’s amended Broker and Freight Forwarder Financial Responsibility rule (Docket FMCSA-2024-0280, RIN 2126-AC76) became fully enforceable. The rule reshapes how broker bonds work in four material ways. Here is where Skyline stands on each.
Bond type and amount
What the rule says: Brokers must continuously maintain a $75,000 surety bond (BMC-84) or trust fund (BMC-85). BMC-85 trust funds must hold only cash, irrevocable letters of credit from FDIC-insured banks, or U.S. Treasury bonds.
Skyline: Active BMC-84 surety bond for $75,000, written by Merchants Bonding Company (Mutual) — Iowa-domiciled, A.M. Best A+ “Superior” rated, Treasury Circular 570 listed. Not a BMC-85 trust — we are unaffected by the 2026 BMC-85 trustee disqualifications.
Electronic notice of drawdown
What the rule says: Sureties and trustees must notify FMCSA electronically of any claim, drawdown, or insolvency indicator — effectively in real time.
Skyline: Our surety reports any claim against our bond directly to FMCSA. We do not control or delay that notice.
7-day cure window
What the rule says: If available bond drops below $75,000, the broker has 7 business days from FMCSA notice to replenish, or operating authority is suspended.
Skyline: We monitor outstanding settlement exposure weekly. We pay carriers on Net 30 or faster Quick Pay terms; we have never approached the $75K floor.
Surety eligibility
What the rule says: A surety or trustee found in violation faces a monetary penalty and a 3-year ineligibility to provide broker financial security.
Skyline: Our surety, Merchants Bonding Company (Mutual), is listed on the U.S. Treasury’s Circular 570 of approved sureties and rated A.M. Best A+ “Superior.” They meet all 2026 eligibility tests with room to spare.
Funding & working capital
What this signals: Under tighter 2026 enforcement, the brokers most likely to trip the $75K bond floor are those whose carrier payables outpace available working capital.
Skyline: Carrier payments today are funded directly from Skyline’s own business working capital — no broker-side factor sits between us and the carrier. A dedicated broker-payables funding line is in active setup, adding another redundancy layer for Quick Pay reliability.
Your right to see the paperwork.
Under 49 CFR 371.3, every party to a brokered transaction — the shipper and the carrier — has a regulatory right to inspect the broker’s records of that transaction. The 2026 broker-transparency NPRM (Docket FMCSA-2023-0257) proposes to modernize this rule with four key changes:
- Require records to be kept in electronic format and produced electronically
- Standardize the required contents of the record (rate, shipper, carrier, payments)
- Reframe transparency as a regulatory duty on the broker (not a waivable privilege)
- Set a 48-hour production window from a written request
Skyline already complies with the proposed standard, today. We do not require carriers to waive 371.3 rights as a condition of haul, and we produce records electronically on request.
Records request in three steps.
Email us
Send a written request to carriers@skylinetransp.com (carriers) or Sales@skylinetransp.com (shippers).
Identify the load
Include the Skyline load number or rate confirmation reference. If you don’t have it, the pickup date plus origin/destination cities is enough.
We send within 48 hrs
You’ll receive: the rate confirmation, the shipper invoice for that load, and proof of settlement to the carrier. PDF by email, no charge, no signed waiver.
Compliance FAQs.
Do I need to sign anything to request transparency records?
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Is Autos Mover the same broker authority?
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Questions on compliance? Call us.
A Fresno dispatcher answers the phone Monday–Friday, 6 AM–6 PM PT.