FMCSA Closed 13 Broker Cases in 7 Years. Here Is Every State.

FMCSA publishes enforcement case data through its Enforcement Management Information System (EMIS). The data is publicly available, broken down by state, fiscal year, and subject type. We downloaded every state file.

The national numbers are bad. The state-level numbers are worse. They show that the enforcement collapse documented in FMCSA's own reports is not concentrated in a few regions or caused by a handful of understaffed offices. It is everywhere. It is uniform. And for broker enforcement, it barely exists at all.

Between FY 2020 and FY 2026, FMCSA closed 18,781 enforcement cases nationally and collected $140.5 million in settlements.

The trajectory:

- FY 2020: 2,966 cases, $18.3M - FY 2021: 2,418 cases, $27.9M - FY 2022: 3,515 cases, $25.0M - FY 2023: 3,795 cases, $26.2M - FY 2024: 3,949 cases, $27.8M - FY 2025: 1,367 cases, $9.8M - FY 2026: 771 cases, $5.5M (through 7/31/2026)

FY 2024 was the peak. Then enforcement fell off a cliff. FY 2025 was 35% of FY 2024. FY 2026, with two months remaining, is on pace to close at roughly 20% of FY 2024 levels.

Carrier enforcement follows the same pattern: 3,794 cases in FY 2024, down to 750 in FY 2026. An 80% decline.

Across the entire United States, FMCSA closed 13 broker enforcement cases between FY 2020 and FY 2026. Total settlements: $116,634.

Only four states had any broker enforcement at all:

- Florida: 7 cases (2 in FY 2023, 5 in FY 2024), $44,858 in settlements - New Jersey: 4 cases (all FY 2024), $64,983 in settlements - Texas: 1 case (FY 2021), $3,880 - Nevada: 1 case (FY 2024), $2,913

Forty-six states and the District of Columbia had zero broker enforcement cases in seven years. There are approximately 25,000 licensed brokers in the United States. FMCSA averaged fewer than 2 broker enforcement cases per year.

No broker case has been closed anywhere in the country since FY 2024.

Total closed enforcement cases, FY 2020 through FY 2026:

1. Texas: 2,868 cases ($15.9M) 2. California: 1,270 cases ($10.4M) 3. New Jersey: 1,255 cases ($7.5M) 4. Georgia: 928 cases ($5.5M) 5. Florida: 879 cases ($5.3M) 6. North Carolina: 790 cases ($4.5M) 7. Arizona: 741 cases ($3.8M) 8. Indiana: 614 cases ($4.7M) 9. Pennsylvania: 585 cases ($3.6M) 10. Illinois: 583 cases ($7.0M)

Texas leads because it has the most trucking activity. But nearly all of these cases are carrier safety enforcement, not consumer protection. The subject types tell the story: carrier cases dominate every state. Broker, shipper, and freight forwarder cases are negligible everywhere.

Florida generates more moving fraud complaints than any other state. Trunk tracks 404 federal complaints against Safe Ship alone. Coastal Moving has 229. Menards has 290. The South Florida broker corridor operates openly.

Florida's enforcement record:

- Total cases (FY 2020-2026): 879 - Carrier cases: 828 (94% of total) - Broker cases: 7 (0.8% of total) - Broker settlements: $44,858 over 7 years

Florida carrier enforcement peaked at 215 cases in FY 2024, then collapsed to 57 in FY 2025 and 35 in FY 2026 (through 7/31). An 84% decline.

The 7 broker cases Florida received in 7 years produced $44,858 in settlements. That is less than the average consumer loses to a single broker-dispatched hostage load. Safe Ship alone has generated more consumer complaints (404) than Florida has had total broker enforcement cases in the history of FMCSA's tracking system.

New Jersey ranks third nationally in total enforcement cases (1,255). The NJ-to-Georgia warehouse corridor is one of the most documented fraud pipelines in household goods moving. Yet:

- Broker cases: 4 (all in FY 2024), $64,983 - Carrier enforcement: 296 cases in FY 2024, down to 51 in FY 2026 (83% decline)

New Jersey had its best enforcement year in FY 2024 across every subject type. Then everything stopped.

Several states had minimal or zero enforcement activity across the entire 7-year period:

- Alaska: 16 total cases - District of Columbia: 25 total cases - Hawaii: 27 total cases - New Hampshire: 52 total cases - Maine: 78 total cases - New Mexico: 88 total cases - Wyoming: 93 total cases - West Virginia: 95 total cases

These are small states with less trucking activity. But even large states show broker enforcement deserts. California (1,270 total cases) had zero broker cases. Georgia (928 total cases) had zero broker cases. Texas (2,868 total cases) had one broker case in seven years, for $3,880.

The three states with the most documented moving fraud, Florida, New Jersey, and Georgia, had a combined 11 broker enforcement cases in 7 years.

The carrier enforcement decline from FY 2024 to FY 2026 is not concentrated in a few regions. It is everywhere:

- Texas: 726 to 69 (-90%) - New Jersey: 296 to 51 (-83%) - Georgia: 202 to 16 (-92%) - Indiana: 141 to 12 (-91%) - North Carolina: 151 to 18 (-88%) - Florida: 215 to 35 (-84%) - Pennsylvania: 132 to 32 (-76%) - Arizona: 146 to 38 (-74%) - California: 219 to 107 (-51%) - Illinois: 91 to 0 (-100%)

Georgia's 92% decline and Texas's 90% drop are among the steepest. Illinois closed zero carrier enforcement cases in FY 2026, a state with 583 total cases over the prior six years. California's 51% decline is the smallest, but still represents more than half its enforcement capacity disappearing.

This is not a regional staffing problem. This is a national policy outcome.

Three conclusions are now supported by state-level data:

First, broker enforcement does not exist as a functioning program. 13 cases in 7 years across 25,000 licensed brokers is not underperformance. It is non-performance. The program exists on paper. It does not exist in practice.

Second, the FY 2024 to FY 2026 enforcement collapse is not attributable to any single region, budget cut, or staffing decision. It is uniform across all 50 states and DC. Every region shows the same trajectory. Something changed at the policy level.

Third, the states generating the most consumer complaints receive no proportional enforcement response. Florida, the state with the highest concentration of documented moving fraud, received 7 broker enforcement cases in 7 years. The agency's own complaint database documents thousands of complaints from Florida consumers during this period.

FMCSA publishes this data. The agency knows these numbers. The enforcement collapse is not hidden. It is measured, reported, and continued.