Mississippi household-goods certificate authority

Check the MDOT certificate

MDOT household-goods and passenger guidelines describe how to apply for a certificate of convenience and necessity. The hearing section calls the same credential a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The packet covers household goods and passengers together as an application class. It is not a list of carriers. An application, including the hearing the Commission sets after filing, is not an issued certificate. A contract-carrier permit is a separate authority. Passenger authority is separate. Other property authority is not this packet. Over-dimensional permits are a different MDOT credential.

The MSR-1 receipt application is a blank form for household goods and passenger carriers. It collects a company name, addresses, a $50 new-registration fee, and $10 per vehicle. Renewal and supplement are checkboxes on that form. The certificate-number line is blank office use. The form is not a roster and not a count of certificated carriers. Per-vehicle fees can be waived when the carrier has paid Unified Carrier Registration and supplies a USDOT number and a motor-carrier number so MDOT can verify that payment. That waiver is a fee rule. It is not Mississippi certificate authority, and the blank form contains no USDOT or MC values to join.

Call MDOT at 601-359-1717, option 2, or toll-free 888-737-0061, option 2. Mail for the motor-carrier section is P.O. Box 1850, Jackson, MS 39215-1850. No current statewide household-goods certificate or permit roster was found in the public MDOT document set retrieved on 2026-10-05. That is a missed bulk download, not a live roster and not a count of zero movers. A public-records request to the motor-carrier section remains open. Disadvantaged-business certification and FMCSA interstate household-goods listings are different records and were not used as a Mississippi certificate census.

Insurance filing rules

The guidelines say insurance requirements must be met before carrier operations begin, and that the printed minimums are the same as 49 C.F.R. Part 387. For this packet they print property (non-hazardous) liability of $750,000. Cargo liability is $5,000 for loads of three tons or less and $10,000 for loads of more than three tons. Those cargo bands are not added together. Passenger limits are a different class: $5,000,000 for seating of 16 or more and $1,500,000 for seating of 15 or less. Household-goods cargo is not a passenger limit. A filing minimum is not proof that a named carrier is insured today. No provider-level current insurance status was acquired. Applicants not domiciled in Mississippi are also told to file a BOC-3. That process note is not a carrier census.

No Mississippi household-goods tariff corpus was acquired. Unified Carrier Registration is an interstate registration program. It does not establish a Mississippi certificate. A USDOT or federal MC number does not establish a current MDOT certificate, and an MDOT certificate does not substitute for FMCSA authority on a move that leaves Mississippi.

Complaints and enforcement

No provider-level Mississippi household-goods complaint rows or outcomes were acquired. FMCSA has a separate interstate mover complaint path. A complaint is not a finding. Commission orders and revocation or suspension records were not acquired as a corpus. No provider-level order was attached, including by name. Enforcement capability is PARTIAL.

Coverage and source clocks

• Household-goods certificate rows, certificate numbers and current statuses: NOT_ACQUIRED. No mover count is shown.
• Contract-carrier permits, passenger authority, other property authority, applications and commission orders stay separate from the certificate roster, which was also not acquired.
• Rows with a printed USDOT or MC number, exact federal bridges and unmatched state rows: NOT_ACQUIRED. No combined Mississippi and federal total.
• Property liability $750,000; cargo $5,000 and $10,000. Passenger limits stay in their own class. Provider insurance status: NOT_ACQUIRED.
• New canonical organizations: 0; graph writes: 0; claim eligibility changes: 0.
• Guidelines PDF created 2013-10-15 and file-modified 2024-01-10. MSR-1 PDF created and file-modified 2013-10-15. Both retrieved 2026-10-05. Page data generated 2026-10-05T18:40:00Z. A file-modified date is not an authority effective date. No roster as-of date was available.
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