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Owner Operator Direct Carrier Company

Source note: The bond summary uses the selected filing's effective date, July 28, 2026. Other financial-filing source rows show July 18, 2025. These may be different filings or disagreements between files; the records do not establish why the dates differ. The timeline preserves those rows separately, not as one consistent policy date or proof of a coverage gap.

Source note: The selected bond filing names Merchants National Bonding, Inc.; other financial-filing rows name U. S. Specialty Insurance Company. The files do not explain these provider differences. A shared effective date does not establish one consistent policy or insurer; each source row is retained separately.

As of Oct 21, 2026, Owner Operator Direct Carrier Company in Canton, Michigan has broker authority status “Active”, in force since Oct 20, 2026, with 1 suspension or revocation on record.

46477 Swanmere Dr, Canton, Michigan 48187 (734) 516-7550

Verified Oct 21, 2026 against FMCSA Licensing & Insurance: Motus and legacy L&I files (data.transportation.gov)

Owner Operator Direct Carrier Company (MC1590544, USDOT 4145874) is a freight broker of property based in Canton, Michigan. Broker authority: active (FMCSA Motus record). Latest authority action: authority reinstated on October 20, 2026. Before that, FMCSA inactivated the authority on April 21, 2025 (its Motus record logs the action as “dismissed”). The current authority has been in force since October 20, 2026. FMCSA first granted this docket broker authority on August 1, 2024. Surety bond, BMC-84 on file with Merchants National Bonding, Inc., effective July 2026, filed with FMCSA on July 28, 2026. That filing was made after the authority stopped on April 21, 2025. FMCSA history shows 1 suspension or revocation action on the broker authority.

Key facts

Authority status Active Status of the broker's FMCSA operating authority: active, application pending, suspended, revoked, voluntarily suspended or withdrawn. source
Recent change Reinstated (last 30 days) New authority (a docket's first grant) or application in the last 14 days, or authority granted again on a docket that held it before; suspension or revocation in the last 30 days when FMCSA's authority row also shows the broker suspended or revoked (a logged suspension on a row that still reads Active is a source disagreement, noted on the profile, and is not counted here); reinstatement in the last 30 days. source
Authority age 1–3 years Time since FMCSA first granted this docket broker authority, whatever its status now; a suspension, revocation or reinstatement does not reset it. source
Broker bond ($75,000) Bond or trust fund on file Brokers must keep a $75,000 surety bond (BMC-84) or trust fund (BMC-85) on file with FMCSA. source
Bond type Surety bond (BMC-84) Surety bond (BMC-84) or trust fund (BMC-85). source
Surety or trust provider Merchants National Bonding, Inc. source
Suspensions and revocations on record 1 FMCSA revocation and suspension actions on the broker authority: involuntary (bond, insurance or process-agent lapses) and voluntary, legacy and Motus history combined and counted once per date. Notices and discontinued proceedings are excluded; a count alone does not establish a coverage gap. source
Also a motor carrier No Yes means the same docket also holds active motor carrier of property authority. source
USDOT number 4145874 source
BOC-3 process agents 1 Hour Process Agents LLC source
Status source FMCSA Motus registration record source
Latest authority action Authority reinstated source
Latest action date Oct 20, 2026 source
Authority in force since Oct 20, 2026 source
Broker authority first granted Aug 1, 2024 source
Bond effective date Jul 28, 2026 source
Bond filed with FMCSA Jul 28, 2026 source
Bond amount 75,000 USD source
Reinstated after Inactivated: logged as dismissed on 2025-04-21 source

Source event history

Source dates and first observation are different. A notice is not confirmation that a suspension took effect.

  1. Oct 21, 2026: Process-agent record first observed · first observed by this site; source date unavailable

    1 Hour Process Agents LLC; 635 N Martin Williston Rd, Genoa, OH, 43430-9786; government filing date not supplied

    Official source
  2. Oct 20, 2026: Authority reinstated Official source
  3. Aug 15, 2026: Prior bond cancelled

    U. S. Specialty Insurance Company; describes the previous policy, not its replacement or a proven coverage gap

    Official source
  4. Jul 28, 2026: Bond filing recorded

    Merchants National Bonding, Inc.; Surety bond (BMC-84)

    Official source
  5. Jul 16, 2026: Suspension/revocation notice

    Notice only; not confirmation that suspension took effect. Scheduled effective date: 2026-08-15.

    Official source
  6. Jul 18, 2025: Bond effective date recorded

    U. S. Specialty Insurance Company; Surety bond (BMC-84)

    Official source
  7. Apr 21, 2025: Application dismissed Official source
  8. Apr 21, 2025: Authority revoked (legacy record) Official source
  9. Aug 1, 2024: Authority granted (legacy record) Official source

Dates on this record

Source updatedUnknown (the source gives no update date for this record or its dataset)
CollectedOct 21, 2026, 10:47 AM ET (the last successful check of the source that included this record)
EffectiveNot given by the source (when the source says each fact took effect)
RetiredNot retired: Motus, FMCSA's registration system, is maintained (whether the dataset is still maintained)

In Michigan

673 freight brokers in the dataset are in Michigan; 37 have profiles on this site. Freight brokers in Michigan

Authority status (all 673 here): Suspended 4 (<1%) · Active 644 (96%) · Application pending 21 (3%) · Application withdrawn 3 (<1%) · Voluntarily suspended 1 (<1%)

Recent change (all 673 here): New authority (last 14 days) 4 (<1%) · Application filed (last 14 days) 4 (<1%) · Reinstated (last 30 days) 3 (<1%) · Suspended or revoked (last 30 days) 2 (<1%) · Granted again (last 14 days) 1 (<1%) · None on record 659 (98%)

Authority age (all 673 in this group): 10+ years (309) · 3–10 years (188) · 1–3 years (84) · 3–12 months (53) · 1–3 months (7) · Under 30 days (5) · None on record (27)

City, state (all 673 in this group): Grand Rapids, Michigan (46) · Warren, Michigan (23) · Romulus, Michigan (22) · Taylor, Michigan (21) · Canton, Michigan (17) · Detroit, Michigan (17) · 227 other values (527)

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