# New Trucking Carrier Leads — FMCSA New-Authority Feed (`industrious_emphasis/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads`) Actor

Daily feed of newly-registered US motor carriers (new USDOT authority) with phone, address, and fleet size — for freight-factoring, truck-insurance, ELD/dispatch, and fuel-card sales teams. Diff-based: only NEW carriers since your last run. No API keys.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/industrious\_emphasis/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Brock Bangasser](https://apify.com/industrious_emphasis) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 new carrier leads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## New Trucking Carrier Leads — FMCSA New-Authority Feed

A brand-new motor carrier is the most sought-after cold-call in trucking — the day a carrier gets its USDOT authority, it's flooded by factoring, insurance, ELD, and fuel-card sales teams. This Actor gives you that list first: a **daily feed of newly-registered US carriers** — legal name, **phone, address, fleet size** — pulled from official FMCSA data. **Only NEW carriers since your last run** (not another bulk scraper), and **no API keys required**.

Built for **freight-factoring & commercial-truck-insurance sales, ELD/dispatch and fuel-card vendors, and trucking-lead resellers** who need fresh new-authority leads without a $129/month list subscription.

### What you get

One **`carrier_lead` row per newly-registered carrier**:

```json
{
  "type": "carrier_lead",
  "legal_name": "HODALE CARRIERS LLC",
  "dba_name": "",
  "phone": "5025551212",
  "cell_phone": "",
  "email": "ops@example.com",
  "address": "1 MAIN ST",
  "city": "LOUISVILLE",
  "state": "KY",
  "zip": "40202",
  "power_units": 2,
  "drivers": 3,
  "operation": "Authorized For Hire",
  "dot_number": "8574807",
  "docket": "MC1234567",
  "add_date": "2026-07-14",
  "first_seen": "2026-07-16"
}
````

Contact info ships **in the source** — the raw row is a callable lead, no enrichment step. Every run ends with a **`run_summary`** receipt (how many new, scope, whether the source was fully reachable), so "0 new today" is an explicit answer, never a blank table.

### Why "new since last run" (not a bulk scraper)

This Actor remembers which carriers it has already delivered (in a private key-value store) and emits **only carriers new since your previous run**. Schedule it daily and you get a clean, deduplicated stream of fresh leads — the general FMCSA "download everything" scrapers make you diff it yourself.

#### Your first run — you choose

- **Default (`skipBacklog` off):** the first run returns *every* carrier in your lookback window — a one-time backlog batch (capped by **Max leads**), so you start with a list in hand. Subsequent runs deliver only the daily new arrivals.
- **`skipBacklog` on:** the first run silently records a baseline **for free** and delivers nothing; from then on you get only carriers registered *after* you started watching. Ideal if you want a pure going-forward feed and don't want to pay for (or wade through) the backlog.

### How to use it

1. Pick your **states** (e.g. `["TX"]`) or leave empty for all.
2. Choose **operation type** — *Authorized For Hire* are the prime insurance/factoring targets.
3. Optional: **minimum fleet size**, **require a phone number**, **max leads** (spend cap).
4. Run once for the recent window, or **schedule it daily** and pipe the dataset to your CRM, dialer, or a Google Sheet.

### What this costs

Pay-per-result: a small actor-start fee + **per new-carrier lead**. Compare: TruckerDB sells new-DOT lists at **$129/month**; you pay only for the fresh rows in the states you want, on the schedule you want.

### Data source & honest notes

- **Source:** FMCSA **Company Census File** on `data.transportation.gov` (dataset `az4n-8mr2`) — official US-government open data, refreshed daily, public. No scraping, no login, no CAPTCHA.
- **"New" = new USDOT registration** (`add_date`). A carrier registers for a USDOT number when it starts operating; that's the new-authority trigger this feed detects.
- **~2–3 day publish lag.** FMCSA typically adds a new carrier to the public census 2–3 days after registration, so `lookbackDays` should stay ≥ 7 (the default). With the built-in diff, a wide window costs you nothing — each carrier is still emitted only once, the first run it appears; a too-narrow window (1–2 days) just misses carriers the census hasn't published yet.
- **Contact fields come from the carrier's own FMCSA filing.** Some rows lack a phone or email — use `requirePhone` to keep only directly-callable leads.
- **Compliance is yours.** These are business leads (carriers), addresses and public filing data only. Follow the rules that apply to you — TCPA/DNC for calls and texts, CAN-SPAM for email — and scrub against the DNC registry before dialing. New carriers are heavily solicited; call responsibly.
- **Resilient by design:** the FMCSA API is queried with retries and back-off; if it's briefly slow, the run returns a *partial* feed with a note and succeeds, rather than failing. Bad input returns a guiding receipt, not a crash. Every run's spend is capped by `maxResults`.

### Roadmap

Authority **status-change** feed (out-of-service / revoked / reinstated) off the same source, insurance-lapse signals, and MC-authority-grant date (distinct from DOT registration) as a premium tier.

# Actor input Schema

## `states` (type: `array`):

2-letter US state codes to include, e.g. TX, CA, FL. Leave empty for all states.

## `operationType` (type: `string`):

Which carriers to include. 'Authorized For Hire' are the prime insurance/factoring targets.

## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`):

How far back to look for newly-registered carriers. The KV diff prevents re-sending the same carrier on scheduled runs, so a small window (7) is ideal for a daily schedule. First run returns the whole window.

## `minPowerUnits` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only carriers with at least this many trucks. 0 = all (most new authorities are 1-2 trucks).

## `requirePhone` (type: `boolean`):

Optional. Drop rows with no phone/cell (not directly callable).

## `skipBacklog` (type: `boolean`):

Off (default): your first run returns every carrier in the lookback window (a one-time backlog batch, capped by Max leads). On: the first run silently records a baseline for FREE and delivers nothing, then future runs deliver only carriers registered from that point forward — ideal if you only want a going-forward daily feed.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on billed lead rows for the whole run. Default 500.

## `socrataAppToken` (type: `string`):

Free token from data.transportation.gov for higher rate limits. Not required. Stored encrypted.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "operationType": "all",
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "minPowerUnits": 0,
  "requirePhone": false,
  "skipBacklog": false,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `leads` (type: `string`):

No description

## `leadsCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "states": [
        "TX"
    ],
    "operationType": "all",
    "lookbackDays": 7,
    "maxResults": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("industrious_emphasis/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "states": ["TX"],
    "operationType": "all",
    "lookbackDays": 7,
    "maxResults": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("industrious_emphasis/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "operationType": "all",
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 25
}' |
apify call industrious_emphasis/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=industrious_emphasis/fmcsa-new-carrier-leads",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
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        "description": "Daily feed of newly-registered US motor carriers (new USDOT authority) with phone, address, and fleet size — for freight-factoring, truck-insurance, ELD/dispatch, and fuel-card sales teams. Diff-based: only NEW carriers since your last run. No API keys.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "wKkNf7GDC88CjTouZ"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/industrious_emphasis~fmcsa-new-carrier-leads/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-industrious_emphasis-fmcsa-new-carrier-leads",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
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                        "application/json": {
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                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
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                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
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                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/industrious_emphasis~fmcsa-new-carrier-leads/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-industrious_emphasis-fmcsa-new-carrier-leads",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "states": {
                        "title": "States filter (optional)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "2-letter US state codes to include, e.g. TX, CA, FL. Leave empty for all states.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "operationType": {
                        "title": "Carrier operation type",
                        "enum": [
                            "all",
                            "authorized",
                            "for_hire",
                            "private"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Which carriers to include. 'Authorized For Hire' are the prime insurance/factoring targets.",
                        "default": "all"
                    },
                    "lookbackDays": {
                        "title": "New in the last N days",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 90,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How far back to look for newly-registered carriers. The KV diff prevents re-sending the same carrier on scheduled runs, so a small window (7) is ideal for a daily schedule. First run returns the whole window.",
                        "default": 7
                    },
                    "minPowerUnits": {
                        "title": "Minimum fleet size (power units)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Optional. Only carriers with at least this many trucks. 0 = all (most new authorities are 1-2 trucks).",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "requirePhone": {
                        "title": "Only carriers with a phone number",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Optional. Drop rows with no phone/cell (not directly callable).",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "skipBacklog": {
                        "title": "Skip the backlog on the first run",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Off (default): your first run returns every carrier in the lookback window (a one-time backlog batch, capped by Max leads). On: the first run silently records a baseline for FREE and delivers nothing, then future runs deliver only carriers registered from that point forward — ideal if you only want a going-forward daily feed.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Spend cap: max new leads per run",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Hard cap on billed lead rows for the whole run. Default 500.",
                        "default": 500
                    },
                    "socrataAppToken": {
                        "title": "Socrata app token (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Free token from data.transportation.gov for higher rate limits. Not required. Stored encrypted."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
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                "properties": {
                    "data": {
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                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
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                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
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                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
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                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
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                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
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                            },
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                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
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                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
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                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
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                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                    },
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                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```