FMCSA Carrier Search & New Trucking Company Leads

Get new trucking companies the week they register and look up any US motor carrier from the official FMCSA Company Census (4.5M+ USDOT records, refreshed by FMCSA on data.transportation.gov). Each row has the USDOT number, MC number, legal and DBA name, phone, email, physical and mailing address, fleet size (power units, trucks, buses), drivers and CDL drivers, cargo types, hazmat flag, interstate/intrastate operation, for-hire class, safety rating and a direct SAFER snapshot link. Use it as an FMCSA API, a USDOT lookup, or a daily new carrier leads feed.

Official US Department of Transportation open data (U.S. Government work). No login, no CAPTCHA, no scraping of SAFER or the FMCSA portal, so runs are fast and don't break when a website changes.

Who uses it

• Truck insurance agents, factoring companies, fuel-card and ELD vendors, dispatch services, freight brokers: reach new carriers in their first weeks, when they shop for insurance, factoring, fuel cards, ELDs and loads.
• Brokers and shippers: vet a carrier by DOT or MC number (status, fleet, operation, safety rating).
• Analysts: fleet and cargo mix by state or ZIP.

Modes

• New carriers (default): carriers that got a USDOT number in the last N days or a date range (about 7,000 per month nationwide).
• Search / lookup: the whole census by name, USDOT, MC, state, city, ZIP, cargo, fleet size or operation.

Filters

States, city, ZIP prefixes, operation type (interstate / intrastate hazmat / intrastate non-hazmat), operation class (AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, EXEMPT FOR HIRE…), cargo carried (General Freight, Refrigerated Food, Household Goods, Building Materials… 30 types), min/max power units, active only, hazmat only, with MC number only, must have phone / email, and only new since last run for scheduled alerts.

Input examples

New interstate carriers in Texas this week with a phone number:

{"mode": "newCarriers", "lastNDays": 7, "states": ["TX"], "carrierOperation": ["interstate"], "requirePhone": true, "maxResults": 500}

New reefer carriers with 2+ trucks and an email, last 30 days:

{"mode": "newCarriers", "lastNDays": 30, "cargo": ["Refrigerated Food"], "minPowerUnits": 2, "requireEmail": true, "maxResults": 1000}

Daily alert (schedule once a day):

{"mode": "newCarriers", "lastNDays": 3, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true, "alertStateName": "all-new", "maxResults": 2000}

Carrier lookup by DOT or MC:

{"mode": "search", "dotNumbers": ["295699"], "mcNumbers": ["MC196088"], "activeOnly": false}

Output fields

dotNumber, mcNumber, dockets[], legalName, dbaName, status, addedDate, mcs150Date, carrierOperation, operationClass, businessType, phone, cellPhone, fax, email, companyOfficers[], street, city, state, zip, country, mailingAddress, powerUnits, trucks, buses, drivers, cdlDrivers, fleetSizeCode, hazmat, cargo[], otherCargo, mileage, mileageYear, safetyRating, safetyRatingDate, recordableCrashRate, dunsNumber, saferUrl, retrievedAt, sourceDataset, sourceLicense

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Pricing

Pay per carrier delivered. Cap spend with Max carriers.

Notes

Not affiliated with FMCSA or USDOT. Data is as filed by carriers on the MCS-150 form. Brand-new carriers often get their MC docket in the census only after operating authority is granted. Phone, email and officer names are published by FMCSA; follow the anti-spam and telemarketing rules that apply to you (e.g. CAN-SPAM, TCPA). Untick Include company officer names to leave names out.