FMCSA New Trucking Carriers: Bulk Feed by State & Fleet Size

Get newly registered US trucking companies in bulk, straight from FMCSA's official Company Census File on data.transportation.gov (all active, inactive and pending USDOT entities, refreshed by FMCSA; ~4,400 new USDOT records in a recent 12-day window). No logins, no SAFER page scraping, no proxies.

Why this one

• Bulk filters most FMCSA actors don't have: state, city, ZIP prefix, exact add-date range, fleet size (min/max power units), minimum drivers, operation classification (for-hire, exempt for-hire, private property, passenger, government...), interstate vs intrastate, hazmat, 30 cargo types, docket present, USDOT status.
• Bulk lookup: up to 500 USDOT numbers per run.
• Fast and cheap: filters run server-side on the official API; 10 rows in a few seconds.

Who it's for

Truck insurance agents, factoring companies, ELD/fuel-card/dispatch/compliance vendors, equipment dealers and freight brokers who want new carriers first.

What you get (one row per carrier)

dotNumber, legalName, dbaName, addedDate, mcs150Date, statusCode, operation, authorityClasses, hazmat, powerUnits, trucks, buses, drivers, cdlDrivers, cargoTypes, dockets, safetyRating, physical street/city/state/zip, mailing city/state/zip, and a SAFER snapshot link.

Business data only. This actor never outputs phone numbers, emails, fax numbers or company officer names, even though the source file contains them. By default it also skips carriers whose legal name looks like a person's name (no LLC/INC/TRUCKING/LOGISTICS-type word); turn off Business-named carriers only to include them.

Examples

• New for-hire interstate Texas carriers with 2-10 trucks, last 14 days: {"addedWithinDays":14,"states":["TX"],"minPowerUnits":2,"maxPowerUnits":10,"authorityTypes":["forHire"],"operationTypes":["A"]}
• October hazmat carriers in TX/OK/LA: {"addedFrom":"2026-10-01","addedTo":"2026-10-31","states":["TX","OK","LA"],"hazmat":"yes"}
• Refrigerated-food carriers in Florida: {"states":["FL"],"cargoTypes":["coldfood"],"addedWithinDays":30}
• Bulk lookup: {"dotNumbers":["5040211"]}

Notes

• addedDate is FMCSA's census ADD_DATE. operation: Interstate / Intrastate hazmat / Intrastate non-hazmat.
• Brand-new carriers usually have no MC docket yet; dockets appear later (about 22% of carriers added in the last 3 months list one).
• Authority type uses the MCS-150 operation classification. It is not FMCSA's L&I operating-authority grant status (common/contract/broker); check the SAFER link for that.

Pricing

Pay per result. Use Max results to cap spend.

Source & terms

Data: https://data.transportation.gov/d/az4n-8mr2 (U.S. DOT / FMCSA, public open data). Reads the official Socrata API, honors robots.txt and its 1-second crawl delay. Addresses are as filed with FMCSA. Verify with FMCSA before legal or underwriting use. Not affiliated with FMCSA or USDOT.