The one vertical where our data is genuinely complete
Independent motor carriers in Georgia with an owner on file, a direct line, and often a personal email, sourced from a US federal filing, not scraped from a listing site or guessed from a website. Most are not for sale anywhere, because most have never been approached.
The FMCSA motor-carrier register (US federal filing) lists every operating US motor carrier by federal requirement, which is why phone coverage sits at 99% because a filer without a working phone number is not compliant. Owner-email coverage is lower (38%) because email is not a required field, but where one exists, 97% of the time it is a personal address rather than a shared dispatch inbox.
Georgia’s 18,643 fully-contactable carriers are an exact partition of the national 380,000+, a full production-database scan (2026-09-06), not a sample. An earlier per-state pull was a sampled estimate that overstated some states by more than 6%; these are the corrected exact counts.
We measured owner-email coverage at 0% across 16 of 17 real customer maps in other industries before finding this one. The database is not uniformly thin, it is excellent in transport and logistics and thinner elsewhere, and this is the one vertical where we can honestly promise a contactable owner today.
Built and maintained by Serava, an off-market acquisition sourcing platform, with sourcing methodology overseen by founder Sadra Khorvash.
Serava holds 18,643 contactable owner-operated motor carriers in Georgia, which is 4.9% of the US contactable register. That is the population with a named owner on file, not the total number of authorities registered in the state. Most are single-owner carriers running fewer than 20 power units and none of them are listed with a broker.
They are different assets at different prices. A clean, aged operating authority is worth something to an operator who already has drivers and shippers; a carrier with contracted lanes, retained drivers and its own tractors is worth a multiple of earnings. Price the fleet and the freight separately before blending them, because a seller quoting one multiple has usually blended them already.
Start with the public record, because it is the only part you can verify before an NDA: authority status and age, crash and roadside inspection history, and out-of-service rates. Then driver tenure from pay records rather than headcount, the contracted versus spot freight mix, customer concentration by shipper and by lane, whether receivables are factored and whether that agreement survives a change of control, and three years of insurance loss runs taken to your own broker.
Directly, and with something specific. Across the register Serava holds a named owner and their email on the same record for 29% of carriers, and a named owner with a phone for 38%, which is the deepest owner-contact coverage of any vertical we track. Name the authority, the domicile and roughly the fleet size, and ask about succession rather than about a transaction. Most owner-operators have never been approached and almost none have a broker.
Because nobody listed them. The FMCSA register is a compliance filing, not a for-sale list, so a carrier appears there whether or not the owner has ever considered selling. That is the point of sourcing this way: you are talking to owners before a process starts, rather than bidding against everyone who saw the same listing.
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