FMCSA Trucking Carrier Scraper

The most complete no-key FMCSA carrier export — DOT number lookup, carrier email, and the roadside safety record in one row. Trucking company leads straight from the official FMCSA data, no API key.

Built for freight brokers, factoring companies, trucking insurance underwriters, and logistics GTM/lead-gen teams. The actor joins three official FMCSA datasets on data.transportation.gov (Socrata) — no API key, no anti-bot wall:

1. Company Census File — identity, address, fleet size, authority, cargo classes, MCS-150 update date.
2. SMS Census — adds the carrier email on file (~55% of carriers have one — the field paid lead vendors charge extra for).
3. Vehicle Inspection File — the roadside safety record aggregated per carrier: inspection count, violations, out-of-service counts, out-of-service rate, and last inspection date.

Filter by state, name, minimum fleet size, or hazmat — build targeted, safety-scored broker/insurance/factoring lead lists in one run.

What you get

Field	Description
dotNumber	USDOT number
legalName	Carrier's legal business name
dbaName	"Doing business as" name
email	Carrier email on file (from FMCSA SMS census; "" when none)
phone	Phone number as filed
street / city / state / zip / county	Physical address
mailingStreet / mailingCity / mailingState / mailingZip	Mailing address
powerUnits	Number of trucks (power units)
truckUnits	Truck units
totalDrivers	Total drivers
cdlDrivers	CDL drivers
ownedTrucks / ownedTractors / ownedTrailers	Owned equipment counts
operatingStatus	Active or Inactive
carrierOperation	Business org type (corporation, LLC…)
operationClassification	Authority class (e.g. authorized for hire / private property)
cargoCarried	Cargo classification codes
hazmatCarrier	true if flagged as a hazmat hauler
docketNumber	MC docket number
docketStatus	Active / Inactive docket status
mcs150Date	Last MCS-150 update date (data freshness signal)
mcs150Mileage	Annual mileage reported on MCS-150
addDate	Date the carrier was added to the census
inspectionCount	Total roadside inspections on record
violationCount	Total violations across those inspections
outOfServiceCount	Total out-of-service results
outOfServiceRate	OOS rate (% of inspections, the key safety KPI)
driverOosCount / vehicleOosCount / hazmatOosCount	OOS breakdown
lastInspectionDate	Date of the most recent inspection
url	Link to the carrier's FMCSA SAFER record

Set includeEmail: false or includeSafety: false to skip the enrichment joins (each adds one batched lookup per page of 1,000 carriers — not a per-carrier round-trip).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
state	string	—	Filter by physical state, e.g. CA
nameContains	string	—	Filter to carriers whose name contains this text
minPowerUnits	integer	—	Minimum fleet size (number of trucks)
activeOnly	boolean	true	Return only carriers with Active operating status
hazmatOnly	boolean	false	Return only hazmat-flagged carriers
includeEmail	boolean	true	Join the carrier email on file
includeSafety	boolean	true	Join the roadside inspection / out-of-service record
maxItems	integer	1000	Maximum number of carriers to return

Example input

{
  "state": "TX",
  "minPowerUnits": 5,
  "activeOnly": true,
  "includeEmail": true,
  "includeSafety": true,
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Example run output

Real record from a live run (CA carrier, DOT 2955):

{
  "dotNumber": "2955",
  "legalName": "TREVIS BERRY TRANSPORTATION",
  "dbaName": "",
  "email": "INFO@TREVISBERRY.COM",
  "phone": "4088428238",
  "city": "GILROY",
  "state": "CA",
  "zip": "95020",
  "powerUnits": 49,
  "totalDrivers": 45,
  "cargoCarried": "C",
  "hazmatCarrier": false,
  "operatingStatus": "Active",
  "mcs150Date": "2026-01-07",
  "inspectionCount": 305,
  "violationCount": 136,
  "outOfServiceCount": 24,
  "outOfServiceRate": 7.9,
  "lastInspectionDate": "2026-06-15",
  "url": "https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&query_string=2955"
}

Use cases

• Freight brokers building carrier lead lists filtered by state and minimum fleet size.
• Factoring companies prospecting active carriers by region and size.
• Trucking insurance providers targeting carriers by power units and operating status.
• Logistics GTM / lead-gen teams ingesting DOT number lookup data with phone and address as filed.

Why this vs other FMCSA actors

• vs paid FMCSA-lead vendors: they resell this same public data behind a markup or monthly subscription. This actor pulls it directly from the official source, no API key, pay-per-result.
• vs other Apify FMCSA actors: the census-only actors return identity + fleet but no email and no safety record; the safety-score actors scrape the SAFER web snapshot (anti-bot walled, fragile) and omit insurance and email. This actor is the only one that joins carrier email + the roadside inspection / out-of-service record onto the census, entirely from no-key, no-anti-bot Socrata datasets — so it's both more complete and more reliable.

Honest scope: all fields are exactly as carriers filed / as inspections were recorded in the official FMCSA datasets. Email is present for the ~55% of carriers who filed one ("" otherwise). Safety metrics are aggregated from the public Vehicle Inspection File; they are not the BASIC percentile scores (those require SAFER, which is anti-bot walled) — they are the underlying raw inspection counts, violations and out-of-service rate, which are the inputs to a safety judgment.

Pricing

Pay per result — billed only for the carrier records returned, no subscription.

Keywords

FMCSA carrier data, trucking carrier scraper, DOT number lookup data, trucking company leads, motor carrier census scraper, freight broker leads, trucking insurance leads, USDOT carrier data, FMCSA Socrata scraper