Carrier Inspections & Violations: Roadside Inspection History

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), or any government agency. No government seals or logos are used.

Pull the roadside inspection history of US carriers by USDOT number: a summary per carrier with driver and vehicle out-of-service rates, plus every inspection with its level, state, out-of-service counts and violation codes. It's for freight brokers and shippers vetting carriers, insurance underwriters, fleet safety managers benchmarking their own record, and researchers.

Input: USDOT numbers and a look-back window of 1 to 24 months.

Output:

• carrier-summary row per carrier: inspections, violations, inspections with an out-of-service order, driver and vehicle out-of-service rates (standard inspection-level conventions), hazmat and post-crash inspections, newest inspection date.
• inspection row per inspection, newest first: inspection id, report number, date, state, level, location text, post-crash and interstate flags, violation and OOS counts by driver / vehicle / hazmat, and (optional) each violation's code, description, part, unit and OOS flag.

This is not a CSA / SMS BASIC score or a safety rating. Confirm on the official SAFER company snapshot before relying on it.

Input

• dotNumbers: up to 500 USDOT numbers
• months: 1 to 24 (default 12)
• includeViolations (default true), includeSummary (default true)
• maxInspectionsPerCarrier: 0 to 5,000 (default 200; 0 = summary only)
• maxResults: up to 50,000 rows

Output fields

Summary: type, dot_number, months, from, to, inspections, violations, oos_violations, inspections_with_oos, driver_inspections, driver_oos_inspections, driver_oos_rate_pct, vehicle_inspections, vehicle_oos_inspections, vehicle_oos_rate_pct, hazmat_inspections_with_violations, hazmat_oos_inspections, post_crash_inspections, last_inspection_date, note, confirm_at

Inspection: type, dot_number, inspection_id, report_number, date, state, level, level_name, location, post_crash, interstate, violations, oos_violations, driver_violations, driver_oos, vehicle_violations, vehicle_oos, hazmat_violations, hazmat_oos, violation_details, confirm_at

Privacy. Driver names are not in the public file. The carrier street address typed by the inspector, shipper names and citation numbers are left out.

Opt-out. Removal requests: support@lepidata.com. Requests are handled within 30 days; opted-out carriers are dropped from every result.

Free status rows (not charged): not-found (opted-out carrier), invalid-input, api-error, free-plan-limit, charge-limit-reached.

Example: {"dotNumbers":["86876"],"months":12,"maxInspectionsPerCarrier":100}

Not a consumer report

Not a consumer report. Lepidata is not a consumer reporting agency. Do not use this data to decide credit, insurance, employment or housing eligibility for an individual.

You are responsible for your own CAN-SPAM, TCPA and do-not-call compliance when contacting any business found here.

Data source and compliance

• Source credit: the Vehicle Inspection File (fx4q-ay7w) and Vehicle Inspections and Violations file (876r-jsdb), about the last 3 years, on the U.S. Department of Transportation open data portal, data.transportation.gov (FMCSA data). US government public data, updated daily. Requests are spaced at least 1 second apart, following the portal's robots.txt.
• Inspections are matched by the USDOT number the inspector recorded. Unofficial data: confirm on the official SAFER company snapshot. Not legal, safety or insurance advice.
• Free-plan accounts get up to 100 results per run.

Pricing. Pay per result: $1.80 per 1,000 rows ($0.0018 each, summary or inspection), the same price on every plan, no start fee. Free status rows are never charged.