AJOT Newsroom
| July 21, 2026
| Maritime | Breakbulk News
Only an estimated 1.4% of FMCSA-registered motor carriers meet the threshold for specialized steel freight operations, according to the latest TA Steel Transportation Index released today by TA Services (“TA”), a third-party logistics provider (“3PL”) offering multimodal freight brokerage, managed transportation, warehousing & fulfillment, and cross-border logistics solutions. Drawing on publicly available FMCSA registration data combined with TA operational insights, the quarterly publication introduces a proprietary market-sizing framework that estimates roughly 28,000 qualified carriers remain from a universe of the more than 2 million FMCSA-registered carriers.
