FMCSA Insurance Cancellation Leads – Trucking (Motus, No API Key)

Find trucking companies whose FMCSA-filed insurance is cancelling or just cancelled: auto liability (BIPD), cargo, or broker bonds. Every lead is enriched with the carrier's phone, cell, email, officers, address, fleet size, drivers and cargo types, plus a check for whether a replacement policy is already on file.

Built on FMCSA's new Motus registration datasets. FMCSA's legacy L&I insurance files (InsHist, ActPendInsur) were frozen on 05/14/2026 and are no longer updated, so tools built on them miss every cancellation filed since. This actor reads the live Motus feeds.

No signup, no API key, no scraping of SAFER pages.

Who it's for

• Commercial truck insurance agents: carriers with a BIPD cancellation and no replacement on file have days to get covered or lose operating authority. Call them first.
• Freight brokers & shippers: vet carriers before tendering loads; drop anyone whose liability is lapsing.
• Factoring companies & lenders: monitor clients for coverage gaps.
• Compliance services, BOC-3 / permit agents: reach carriers at risk of authority revocation.

How it works

1. Queries Motus InsHist – All With History (3uet-3z4i) for filings whose cancellation effective date falls in your window (default: last 14 days to next 30 days).
2. Joins each USDOT to the Company Census File (az4n-8mr2) for contact and fleet data.
3. Optionally checks Motus Insur – All With History (c5y8-a4uz) for a newer active filing of the same type, and flags replacementPolicyOnFile.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
daysBack / daysAhead	14 / 30	Cancellation effective-date window
cancellationReasons	["CANCEL"]	Add TERM/REPL for carriers that just switched insurers
insuranceTypes	["BIPD"]	BIPD, CARGO, SURETY, TRUST FUND
states	all	Physical-address states, e.g. ["TX","AR","OK"]
minPowerUnits / maxPowerUnits	none	Fleet-size filter
checkReplacement	true	Flag replacement filings
onlyWithoutReplacement	false	Keep only true coverage gaps
requireContact	false	Require phone or email
includeBrokersAndForwarders	true	Drop FF dockets / BMC-84/85 when false
maxResults	100	Up to 10,000

Example: small Texas/Arkansas/Oklahoma fleets losing liability coverage with nothing new on file:

{
  "daysBack": 30,
  "daysAhead": 30,
  "states": ["TX", "AR", "OK"],
  "minPowerUnits": 2,
  "onlyWithoutReplacement": true,
  "requireContact": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Output (one row per cancelled filing)

usdotNumber, docketNumber, legalName, dbaName, cancellationReason, insuranceType, insuranceFormCode, insurerName, policyNumber, coverageMaxAmount, policyEffectiveDate, cancellationEffectiveDate, daysUntilCancellation, replacementPolicyOnFile, replacementInsurer, replacementEffectiveDate, phone, cellPhone, email, companyOfficer1, companyOfficer2, street, city, state, zip, powerUnits, trucks, totalDrivers, carrierOperation, hazmat, cargoCarried, censusStatus, safetyRating, mcs150Date, inCensus, saferSnapshotUrl, source.

From a real run (Oct 2026): a default run found 1,423 BIPD cancellation filings in the window; the first 100 leads all matched a census record with phone and email, and 6 of 100 already had a replacement policy on file. A filtered TX/AR/OK run (2+ trucks, no replacement, contact required) returned leads such as a 10-truck Houston carrier and a 4-truck McGehee, AR farm hauler.

Notes and limits

• replacementPolicyOnFile is a best-effort check against Motus active filings only; always confirm on the carrier's SAFER / L&I page before acting.
• Census contact fields are what the carrier reported on its MCS-150; some are stale.
• Follow TCPA, CAN-SPAM and Do-Not-Call rules when contacting carriers.

Compliance

• Uses only official, public US DOT open-data endpoints (data.transportation.gov Socrata SODA API), anonymously, with no key.
• Data is public FMCSA registration and insurance-filing information.
• Requests are throttled to about 1 per second, back off on 429/5xx, and send a declared User-Agent.

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