Legal challenge targets 20% UCR fee increase and trucker data privacy violations

A trucking trade association has launched a fresh legal assault against federal regulators, asking a federal appeals court to strike down a major motor carrier fee rule and halt what it calls the illegal sharing of truckers' sensitive personal data.

The Small Business in Transportation Coalition (SBTC) filed a petition for review on Oct. 20, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit under the Hobbs Act, targeting a Sept. 1, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) final rule. The rule recodified annual Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) fees for 2027 and subsequent years, carrying an average 20% price increase.

Trade group argues that the underlying UCR System Plan and Agreement was never lawfully established through proper federal rulemaking as mandated by Section 13908 of the UCR Act of 2007.

"Petitioner asks that this Court rule that Respondent FMCSA's 2027 UCR fee rule has been unlawfully promulgated and illegally codified... and order Respondents and their UCR administrator agents to cease and desist from any and all further unlawful fee collection," the filing states.

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