FMCSA Carrier Search: US DOT Trucking Company Leads

Search the FMCSA Company Census (4.5M US DOT registrations) by state, city, fleet size, drivers, cargo, hazmat, operation and new-registration date: DOT and MC numbers, legal and DBA name, address, fleet and driver counts, safety rating, dates, company phone and e-mail. $1 per 1,000 carriers.

An FMCSA carrier search for US trucking leads, straight from the official Company Census. The FMCSA Company Census File lists every USDOT registration, about 4.5 million carriers, brokers, shippers and freight forwarders, and is published as open data on data.transportation.gov. Filter by state and city, fleet size (power units), driver count, cargo carried (general freight, refrigerated food, livestock, hazmat…), interstate or intrastate, for-hire only, entity type, name, and new registrations in the last N days, and get one clean row per registration: USDOT and MC numbers, legal and DBA name, status, entity types, operation and classifications, physical city, state and ZIP (street for companies), mailing city, power units, trucks, buses, drivers and CDL drivers, mileage, hazmat flag, cargo list, safety rating, registration and last MCS-150 dates, the SAFER snapshot link, and for companies the business phone and e-mail. Sort by newest or by largest fleet. Use it for freight broker and carrier sales prospecting, new-authority lead lists for insurance, fuel cards, factoring, ELD and dispatch services, carrier vetting, and transportation market research. $1 per 1,000 carriers, with no compute bill on top; problems return a free status row instead of failing.

What data does it return?

Every run outputs clean, schema-validated rows like these:

dotNumber	legalName	city	state	powerUnits	addedAt
6393084	ALLIANCE LIFTING AND TRANSPORT, LLC	El Paso	TX	34	2026-10-20
6990988	TITAN TRANSIT GROUP INC.	Fulshear	TX	22	2026-10-17
6463740	KW LOGISTICS LLC	Bertram	TX	10	2026-10-16

How much does it cost?

Transparent pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you get, and the actor always respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and it stops cleanly at the cap instead of overrunning.

Event	Price	Charged	Worked example
carrier-result	$0.001	per carrier row	1,000 carriers = $1.00
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	per run per GB of memory (platform start fee)	One run at 256 MB = $0.00005

Input options

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
states	array	no	—	2-letter state codes of the physical address, e.g. TX, CA, FL.
cities	array	no	[]	Optional city names, e.g. Dallas, Houston (combine with states).
dotNumbers	array	no	[]	Look up specific registrations by USDOT number (digits only).
nameContains	string	no	""	Only registrations whose legal or DBA name contains this text, e.g. LOGISTICS, EXPRESS.
status	string	no	"active"	USDOT status.
operation	string	no	"any"	Carrier operation.
entityTypes	array	no	[]	Only registrations of any of these types. Empty = all.
authorizedForHireOnly	boolean	no	false	Only for-hire carriers (they haul for others), not private fleets.
minPowerUnits	integer	no	0	Fleet size floor. 0 = no minimum.
maxPowerUnits	integer	no	0	Fleet size ceiling. 0 = no maximum.
minDrivers	integer	no	0	Driver-count floor. 0 = no minimum.
addedWithinDays	integer	no	0	Only USDOT numbers added in the last N days (new carriers and new authorities). 0 = any date.
hazmatOnly	boolean	no	false	Only registrations flagged as carrying hazardous materials.
cargo	array	no	[]	Only carriers hauling any of these cargo types. Empty = all.
companiesOnly	boolean	no	false	Leave out individuals (owner-operators registered under their own name).
includeContacts	boolean	no	true	Add the phone and e-mail from the census for companies (corporations, partnerships, LLC/INC names). Never output for individuals.
sortBy	string	no	"newest"	Order of the results.
maxItems	integer	no	200	Stop after this many registrations. Each one is one charged row.

Limits & honest notes

• Responsible use: you are responsible for using the data in line with US law, including the TCPA and CAN-SPAM for calls and e-mails, and any state privacy laws. This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the FMCSA or the US Department of Transportation.
• It queries the public Socrata API of data.transportation.gov (dataset az4n-8mr2, keyless), which robots.txt allows, at about one request per second (the site's Crawl-delay), 1,000 rows per request. No login, no cookies, no proxies; it sends an honest user agent (ActorForge-FMCSA).
• Privacy by design: company officer names, cell phones and fax numbers are never requested. Many registrations are owner-operators under their own name: for those (and any registration without a company legal form) the street, phone and e-mail are left out. Turn on Companies only to skip individuals entirely.
• The census is refreshed by the FMCSA regularly but is not live: for real-time operating authority or insurance status, check the SAFER link on each row. A broad search (for example all of Texas) has tens of thousands of rows: set Max carriers to what you need.
• If the site answers with a block, the run stops at once, keeps the rows already delivered and adds a free status row. Respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and the run stops cleanly at the cap. A run with no results returns one free status row.

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Changelog

• 2026-10-23 — Initial release: SoQL filters (states, cities, DOT numbers, name, status, operation, entity type, for-hire, fleet, drivers, new registrations, hazmat, cargo), newest/largest sort, DOT/MC, fleet, safety rating, dates, company-only contacts; free status rows.

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