US Trucking Carrier Leads — FMCSA New Authorities & Carriers

Fresh, contact-complete US trucking carrier leads straight from official FMCSA data. Get carriers whose operating authority was just granted, brand-new USDOT registrations, or filtered slices of the full census of 2.2M+ active carriers — each row with phone, email, officer name, full address, fleet size and cargo types.

Measured on real output (July 2026, n=2,000 newly granted authorities): email 100%, phone 99.9%, full address 100%.

What does this Actor do?

It reads two official FMCSA datasets on data.transportation.gov (updated daily by the U.S. Department of Transportation):

• Authority history (Motus) — every operating-authority event. The Actor filters to freshly GRANTED authorities (and optionally reinstated ones) and joins each with full carrier contact data.
• Company census — 147 columns on every registered carrier: phone, email, officers, address, fleet, cargo, safety data.

Three modes:

1. Newly granted authorities (default) — the classic "new MC authority" lead feed used by freight factoring, insurance and compliance vendors. Now built on FMCSA's new Motus event stream, so it keeps working after the 2025-26 MC-number retirement that broke docket-based pipelines.
2. New USDOT registrations — the earliest possible signal: carriers registered in the last N days. Measured contact fill on this segment: phone 100%, email 100%.
3. Search active carriers — filter the whole 2.2M-carrier census by state, cargo type, fleet size and contact availability.

Why use it?

Every month ~15-17K new carriers register and ~2K+ authorities are granted. The first vendor to call a new carrier usually wins the account — that's why subscription services sell this same public data at $49-$497/month. This Actor gives you the identical official-source feed on Apify's pay-per-result pricing, schedulable daily, with API/CSV/Excel export and no lock-in.

Who buys these leads: freight factoring companies, truck insurance agencies, ELD & dispatch software vendors, fuel-card providers, compliance services, equipment lessors.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free — the default input already fetches last week's granted authorities.
2. Pick a mode and a date range (for daily feeds, schedule the Actor with "Last 24 hours").
3. Optionally filter by state, cargo type, fleet size, or require email/phone.
4. Run, then download from the Output tab (JSON, CSV, Excel, XML) or pull via API.

Input example

{
    "mode": "new_authorities",
    "datePreset": "last_7_days",
    "states": ["TX", "OK"],
    "requireEmail": true,
    "maxResults": 1000
}

Output example

{
    "usdotNumber": "6963412",
    "legalName": "FAST EAGLE TRANSPORT LLC",
    "phone": "4052746804",
    "cellPhone": "4052746804",
    "email": "fasteagletransport***@gmail.com",
    "officer1": "ARGELIO TRUJILLO SANCHEZ",
    "street": "3716 W PARK PL",
    "city": "OKLAHOMA CITY",
    "state": "OK",
    "zip": "73107-5118",
    "powerUnits": 1,
    "totalDrivers": 1,
    "carrierOperation": "Interstate",
    "cargoTypes": ["General Freight"],
    "registrationDate": "2026-07-10",
    "authorityType": "Motor Carrier of Property (Except Household Goods)",
    "authorityReason": "Granted",
    "authorityGrantedDate": "2026-07-26",
    "docketNumber": "MC83157018",
    "source": "FMCSA (data.transportation.gov)"
}

Data fields & measured coverage

Coverage measured on 2,000 real rows (newly granted authorities, July 2026):

Field	Coverage	Notes
legalName, usdotNumber	100%	Official legal identity
phone	99.9%	Business phone from MCS-150 filing
email	100%	Business email (new-carrier segments; ~65% across the full old census)
street, city, state, zip	100%	Physical + mailing address
officer1 / officer2	58% / 7%	Fills in as carriers file MCS-150 updates
powerUnits, totalDrivers, cdlDrivers	95-100%	Fleet size for qualification
cargoTypes	60-70%	Decoded cargo categories (reefer, tanker, general freight…)
authorityType, authorityGrantedDate, docketNumber	100%	In new-authorities mode
cellPhone	33%	When filed
safetyRating	~0-3%	New carriers are unrated; fills on older carriers in search mode

Pricing & cost

$0.004 per carrier lead ($4 per 1,000) — pay only for results. You are charged per lead actually delivered — rows filtered out by your requireEmail / requirePhone settings are never billed.

Pay per result — a 1,000-lead run costs about what a single lead costs at legacy list vendors. Compute usage is minimal (single HTTP API source, no browser): a 1,000-row run typically finishes in under a minute.

Tips

• Daily feed: schedule mode new_authorities + last_24_hours every morning — fresh grants land daily (Mon-Fri).
• Owner-operators: maxPowerUnits: 5 targets small fleets; factoring and insurance convert best there.
• Reefer/tanker verticals: use cargoTypes to sell into specialized segments.
• Earliest contact: mode new_registrations reaches carriers before their authority is granted.

FAQ & legal

Is this data legal to use?

Yes — it is public record published by the U.S. DOT/FMCSA for public access. This Actor only reads the official open-data API (no scraping of protected systems). If you send marketing, comply with applicable laws (e.g. TCPA/CAN-SPAM) — that responsibility sits with the sender.

Why do some old carriers lack email?

Email became a standard MCS-150 field over time; new registrants are ~100% covered, the historical census ~65%.

Does it use proxies or my credentials?

No credentials, no proxies, no login. An optional free Socrata app token can be added for very large pulls.

Something broken or missing?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — fixes ship fast.

Changelog

0.1.3 (2026-08-03)

• Fix: duplicate lead rows when the source AuthHist feed carries byte-identical duplicate "Granted" events for the same carrier (measured 2/500 on a weekly run). Dedupe now also runs within a page; key unchanged (usdot|docket), so carriers legitimately granted multiple authorities (distinct dockets) still produce one row per authority. Verified on-platform: 500-row rerun → 0 duplicates.

0.1 (2026-07-27)

• Initial release: new-authorities feed (Motus event stream + census contact join), new-registrations feed, census search.
• Filters: state, cargo type, fleet size, carrier operation, email/phone required.
• Semantic guarantees: masked empties ("0" fax/phone) nulled, dates normalized to ISO, granted-only default (Motus baseline noise excluded), inactive carriers excluded from lead joins.