# FMCSA New Motor Carrier Authority — Daily Leads Feed (`jobito/fmcsa-new-authority-feed`) Actor

Daily feed of newly granted FMCSA operating authorities (MC numbers) with contact details from the official DOT census: name, address, phone, cell, email, fleet size. Deduped across runs. For freight factoring, trucking insurance, ELD and dispatch sales teams.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jobito/fmcsa-new-authority-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [Joseph Ellis](https://apify.com/jobito) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 carrier lead delivereds

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?

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

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# README

## FMCSA New Motor Carrier Authority — Daily Leads Feed

A daily feed of **newly granted FMCSA operating authorities** (MC numbers), enriched
with the carrier's contact details from the official DOT census file: legal and DBA
name, physical and mailing address, **phone, cell phone and email**, company officer,
fleet size and driver count.

FMCSA grants authority to **100–200 carriers and brokers every business day**. A
carrier with fresh authority legally cannot haul a load until insurance is filed and
compliance is in place — so brand-new authorities are the highest-urgency prospect
list in trucking:

- **Freight factoring** — new carriers have no receivables history and need cash flow.
- **Commercial trucking insurance** — coverage is legally required before operating.
- **ELD, compliance & permit services** — mandatory from day one.
- **Dispatch services & load boards** — new carriers need freight immediately.

Comparable "new MC authority" lead lists sell for $0.10–$1.00+ per lead.

### Why this actor

- **Built on the current data source.** FMCSA retired its legacy L\&I "Register"
  report in May 2026 (the Motus migration) — tools scraping li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov
  no longer see new grants. This actor reads the official replacement datasets on
  US DOT's open-data portal, refreshed daily.
- **Dedupe across runs** — each grant (docket + grant date) is delivered once, so a
  daily scheduled run behaves like an alert subscription.
- **Contact enrichment built in** — grants are joined to the DOT census file for
  phone/email/address in the same run; no second tool needed.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `lookbackDays` | Days back to scan (default 7). |
| `onlyNew` | Dedupe against previous runs (default true). |
| `states` | Two-letter physical-address state codes. Empty = all. |
| `authorityTypeContains` | Substrings matched against authority type: `PROPERTY`, `BROKER`, `HOUSEHOLD GOODS`, `PASSENGER`. Empty = all. |
| `requireContact` | Only leads with a phone or email (default false). |
| `maxRecords` | Cap output (0 = unlimited). |
| `socrataAppToken` | Optional free token from dev.socrata.com for dedicated rate limits. |

No input is required — the defaults produce the last week of new authorities nationwide.

### Output example

```json
{
  "docket_number": "MC538649",
  "usdot_number": "1424414",
  "authority_type": "Motor Carrier of Property (Except Household Goods)",
  "granted_date": "2026-08-07",
  "legal_name": "SPIRIT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS INC.",
  "dba_name": "",
  "physical_address": {
    "street": "8223 S 222ND ST", "city": "KENT",
    "state": "WA", "zip_code": "98032-1942", "country": "US"
  },
  "phone": "2067635268",
  "cell_phone": "2532661296",
  "email": "safety@spirittransport.net",
  "company_officer": "CURT NUCCITELLI",
  "power_units": "27",
  "total_drivers": "22",
  "operation_class": "AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE",
  "census_found": true
}
```

Carriers granted authority in the last day or two may not have a census row yet;
they are delivered with `census_found: false` and empty contact fields, and the
census data typically appears within a few days. Use `requireContact` to skip them.

### Data source & legality

- Authority grants: [Motus AuthHist — All With History](https://datahub.transportation.gov/resource/yu5v-wbh6) (US DOT open data, refreshed daily)
- Contact enrichment: [Motor Carrier Census File](https://datahub.transportation.gov/resource/az4n-8mr2) (4.4M carriers, refreshed daily)

Both are official US DOT open-data publications of public regulatory records.

# Actor input Schema

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

How many days back from today to check for authority grants. Combined with dedupe, a daily scheduled run will catch up on any days it missed.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember grants already delivered in previous runs (stored in a named key-value store) and push only ones not seen before. This is what makes scheduled runs behave like an alert feed.

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

Two-letter state codes of the carrier's physical address. Empty = all.

## `authorityTypeContains` (type: `array`):

Case-insensitive substrings matched against the authority type, e.g. PROPERTY, BROKER, HOUSEHOLD GOODS, PASSENGER. Empty = all.

## `requireContact` (type: `boolean`):

Skip carriers whose census record has neither a phone number nor an email address (usually carriers too new to have a census row yet).

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many records. 0 = unlimited.

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

Free app token from dev.socrata.com. Anonymous access works but shares a throttling pool; a token gives dedicated rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "requireContact": false,
  "maxRecords": 0
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jobito/fmcsa-new-authority-feed").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 = {}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call jobito/fmcsa-new-authority-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jobito/fmcsa-new-authority-feed"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ctRLqoqnNssGeCLxB/builds/BtRGjLS0RgTsOPVIG/openapi.json