🚛 FMCSA Carrier Safety Scraper

🚀 Pull US motor carrier safety data from FMCSA in minutes. BASIC scores, operating authority, cargo types, vehicle counts, contact info. No API key.

Pull live carrier safety data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the US regulator that maintains compliance and safety records for every commercial motor carrier registered to operate in the country. The actor accepts a company name, USDOT number, or MC/MX number, walks the FMCSA search results, fetches each carrier's full safety profile, and returns one structured record per carrier ready for trucking compliance, freight broker due diligence, insurance underwriting, or supply-chain risk workflows.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of FMCSA at run time. Records include the legal name, DBA name, USDOT number, phone, address, BASIC scores (Unsafe Driving, Hours-of-Service, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances, Vehicle Maintenance, Hazmat, Crash), operating authority status, cargo types carried, total power units and drivers, and the canonical FMCSA URL.

👥 Built for	🎯 Primary use cases
Freight brokers	Vet carriers before tendering loads
Trucking compliance	Track BASIC scores across your fleet partners
Insurance underwriting	Validate carrier safety for policy decisions
Shippers and 3PLs	Build approved-vendor lists with safety thresholds
Lenders and factoring	Validate carrier credit risk via safety data
Researchers	Study trucking safety trends across regions

📋 What the FMCSA Scraper does

• 🆔 Three lookup methods. Company name search, USDOT number, or MC/MX number.
• 📊 BASIC safety scores. Seven category scores published by FMCSA.
• 🏢 Carrier metadata. Legal name, DBA name, address, phone, mailing address.
• 🚛 Operating profile. Power units, drivers, cargo types, operating authority status.
• 📈 Crash and inspection history. Recent accidents and roadside inspections where exposed.
• 🔗 Canonical URL. Back-reference to each carrier's FMCSA SAFER profile.

The scraper accepts a search keyword OR a list of USDOT/MC numbers. It walks FMCSA results, fetches each carrier's detail page, and pushes structured records to the dataset.

💡 Why it matters: FMCSA SAFER is the canonical source of US motor carrier safety records but its UI is paginated, slow, and lacks bulk export. A live, structured pull beats manual lookup for freight brokers, insurers, and supply chain teams.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: canadaCrashes, canadaInspections, cargoCarried, carrierOperation, dbaName, dotNumber, drivers, dunsNumber, entityType, hmShipperOperation, latestUpdate, legalName, mailingAddress, mcMxFfNumbers, mcs150FormDate, mcs150Mileage, mcs150Year, operatingStatus, operationClassification, outOfServiceDate, phone, physicalAddress, powerUnits, safetyRating, safetyRatingDate, safetyReviewDate, safetyType, scrapedAt, snapshotUrl, stateCarrierId, totalCrashes, usCrashes, usInspections. All 33 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. DOT and MC number lookups override the company name search. Name searches return up to 50 results from FMCSA. You need a free FMCSA API key from mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the FMCSA Carrier Safety Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set inputs. Enter a carrier name or list of DOT/MC numbers, then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool. FMCSA SAFER is a public US government data source and the scraped data is public-domain. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate compliance, due diligence, and research use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

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