New Trucking Companies (FMCSA) & Carrier Leads

Every new US trucking company the day it registers with the FMCSA, from the official Company Census File, updated daily:

• the USDOT number, legal and DBA name, and the date it was added;
• phone, cell phone, fax and email;
• the company officers;
• power units, trucks, drivers and CDL drivers;
• interstate or intrastate operation, hazmat, cargo types, classification and MC docket numbers.

No account, no API key, no proxies: the data comes from data.transportation.gov, the open data portal of the US Department of Transportation.

Who uses it

• Truck insurance agents and brokers: a new carrier needs liability and cargo insurance before it can run.
• Freight factoring, fuel cards, ELD and dispatch services: new owner-operators and small fleets, with phone and email.
• Truck and trailer dealers, driver schools, compliance services: new fleets by state, size and cargo.
• Freight brokers: new carriers for their lanes, with interstate operation and cargo types.

What you get

One record per carrier (USDOT number):

Field	Example
dotNumber, legalName, dbaName	9211336, RLEGACY EMPIRE LLC
addedDate, lastUpdateDate	When the USDOT number was added; the last MCS-150 update
status, operation, classification	active, interstate (or intrastate, intrastate-hazmat), ["AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE"]
hazmat, cargoTypes	false, ["General freight"]
powerUnits, trucks, buses, drivers, cdlDrivers	2, 0, 0, 2, 0
officers	["NATHANIEL VILLANUEVA", "NORA ROMERO"]
phone, cellPhone, fax, email	346-941-0265, rlegacyempirellc@icloud.com
street, city, state, zip, country, mailingAddress	2522 COVERED WAGON DR, CROSBY, TX, 77532
dockets	MC and MX docket numbers, where the carrier has operating authority
sharedContact	true when the email or phone is also on 2 or more other carriers of the run: a registration or compliance service's, not the carrier's own
saferUrl, sourceUrl, retrievedAt	The carrier's SAFER snapshot, the dataset and when it was read
change	With Only new: new or updated

The OUTPUT record has the totals, the count by state and by operation, and the attribution.

Input

New carriers in Texas this week:

{
  "addedWithinDays": 7,
  "states": ["TX"],
  "maxResults": 50
}

New interstate carriers with an email in the last week, every state (the census runs two or three days behind, so a window under 4 days can be empty):

{
  "addedWithinDays": 7,
  "operations": ["interstate"],
  "onlyWithEmail": true
}

New hazmat and refrigerated carriers with at least 2 trucks this month:

{
  "addedWithinDays": 30,
  "hazmatOnly": true,
  "cargoTypes": ["coldfood", "chem"],
  "minPowerUnits": 2
}

Look up carriers by USDOT number:

{
  "dotNumbers": ["9211336", "9130661"]
}

Field	What it does
addedWithinDays	Carriers added in the last N days (30 by default, up to 365).
states	2-letter codes of the physical address.
operations	Interstate, intrastate hazmat, intrastate.
cargoTypes	MCS-150 cargo classifications (general freight, household goods, refrigerated food, chemicals...).
minPowerUnits, maxPowerUnits	Fleet size.
hazmatOnly, onlyWithEmail, onlyWithPhone	Narrow the list.
includeInactive	Also inactive and pending USDOT numbers (only active by default).
dotNumbers	Look up these carriers whatever their date of addition.
maxResults	Carriers saved, newest first (1,000 by default).
onlyNew + memoryName	For daily runs: only the carriers earlier runs of the same search did not save, or whose status, phone, email or fleet changed. The memory lives in a key-value store named us-trucking-companies-state.
appToken	Free Socrata app token, optional.

How much it costs

Pay per event: only for the carriers saved. Measured on 2026-10-02: 13,489 carriers were added in September 2026 (about 400 to 600 each weekday), all with a phone and all but one with an email; a week of Texas is about 135 carriers, read in under 2 seconds.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client can run this Actor as a tool: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=digital_influx/us-trucking-companies as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account. It is also one of the tools of US & UK Public Records MCP (digital_influx/public-records-mcp), by the same author, made for agents.

Good to know

• The census is published daily, two or three days behind: the newest additions are usually from two days ago.
• Shared contacts: many new carriers register through a filing or compliance service, whose email and phone end up on many records. sharedContact flags them within the run.
• Fleet numbers are what the carrier declared on its MCS-150 form when it registered; many new carriers declare 0 to 2 power units.
• Personal data: many owner-operators use a personal email and phone. The FMCSA publishes them, but they are personal data: follow the TCPA and CAN-SPAM rules (and state laws) for calls, texts and emails.
• Requests: one a second, as the portal's robots.txt asks. Without a token the portal shares a request limit per IP address; if a run reports a refused request, add a free Socrata app token.

Source and attribution

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), "Company Census File", published on data.transportation.gov (dataset az4n-8mr2), U.S. Department of Transportation open data. The FMCSA does not endorse this Actor or the uses of its results.