North Dakota Freight Broker Bond$75,000 BMC-84, No State Bond to Add

North Dakota Repealed Its Motor Carrier Bond Law Piece by Piece, Then Entirely, in 1995

Search "North Dakota motor carrier bond" and you'll find references to N.D. Cent. Code Chapter 49-18, "Motor Carriers." Pull the chapter directly from the North Dakota Legislative Branch's own codification and the entire text is a single repeal notice — worn down across six separate session laws (1965, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1987) before the final repeal in 1995 (S.L. 1995, ch. 450, § 1). There is no surviving section to comply with. What remains at Title 8, Chapter 8-07 — "General Provisions Relating to Common Carriers" — is eight short sections on a carrier's duty to accept freight, charge reasonable rates, and honor contract terms. None of it mentions bonding, and none of it distinguishes a broker from a carrier.

Brokering Around Williston and Watford City Means Underwriting Permits, Not Just Carriers

The Bakken/Three Forks formation produced roughly 1.1 million barrels of oil per day in February 2026 — about 97% of North Dakota's total output — according to the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources' Director's Cut report. A large share of the freight tied to that output is non-reducible oversize or overweight: drilling pipe, modular housing, workover-rig components, and water hauling to and from wellsites. Most of it moves on county, township, and city roads that a general-freight broker never touches, which is why western ND runs on a LoadPass permitting platform — a consolidated system covering local oilfield roads for over 30 years — layered on top of standard NDDOT and Highway Patrol state-highway oversize/overweight permits.

It also means dealing with North Dakota's spring load restrictions: NDDOT posts seasonal limits — typically 7 tons per axle (105,500 lbs GVW) statewide, with some county roads dropping to 6 tons per axle (80,000 lbs) — from roughly mid-February through May, because the worst pavement damage happens in the first four weeks after spring thaw. A broker whose carrier network doesn't already track which roads are posted will blow appointment windows a general dry-van broker never has to worry about.

North Dakota Grows More Spring Wheat, Durum, and Canola Than Any Other State

USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service ranked North Dakota #1 nationally in both spring wheat and durum wheat production in 2025, and #2 in total wheat production at 334.1 million bushels — behind only Kansas's 346.8 million. NASS also credits North Dakota as the dominant U.S. canola producer, at roughly 81% of the national crop in its most recent record year. Unlike the Bakken, this surge isn't concentrated in a handful of northwestern counties — it runs statewide, from Red River Valley elevators to south-central grain terminals, compressed into a six-to-eight-week window from late August through October.

Brokering harvest freight means chasing elevator-to-rail and elevator-to-processor capacity on the crop's calendar, not a shipper's. Because it doesn't overlap the Bakken's counties or its permitting requirements, most ND brokers who build a serious harvest book treat oilfield freight as a separate specialty — the carrier relationships, documentation, and seasonal timing rarely transfer between the two.

North Dakota Freight Broker Bond Cost

The $75,000 BMC-84 is priced as a percentage of face value — you never pay $75,000, only the annual premium. Pricing is driven by credit, not geography or whether you run oilfield or harvest freight; see our freight broker bond cost by state guide and surety bond cost overview for broader context.

Getting Bonded: FMCSA Filing Plus the North Dakota DOT UCR Step

With no state broker bond track, nearly all of your paperwork runs through the FMCSA — but one North Dakota-administered filing still applies to every broker. See our full guide to getting freight broker authority for more detail on each federal step.

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