# FMCSA Carrier Scraper — USDOT, MC, Phone, Email (`scrapersdelight/fmcsa-carrier-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the official FMCSA motor carrier census: USDOT and MC number, the phone and email the carrier filed with the DOT, officer name, full address, fleet size, driver counts, hazmat flag and registration date. Filter by state, fleet size, operation type or new-entrant date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/fmcsa-carrier-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Delight](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 per carrier returneds

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## 🚛 FMCSA Carrier Scraper — USDOT, MC number, phone and email

Turn the **federal motor carrier census** into a trucking lead list. Filter by state, fleet size,
operation type or **registration date**, and get one row per carrier: **USDOT number, MC number,
the phone and email the carrier filed with the DOT**, officer name, full address, fleet size,
driver counts, hazmat flag and annual mileage.

Straight from the USDOT's own open-data platform — **no login, no API key, nothing to unblock.**

### What does this actor do?

It queries the FMCSA Motor Carrier Census (**~4.5 million carriers**, refreshed daily) and returns flat
rows you can load straight into a CRM:

- 🆔 **`dotNumber` / `mcNumber`** — the USDOT number and the MC docket number
- 🏢 **`legalName`**, `classification` (e.g. `AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE`), `businessType`
- 📞 **`phone`** and 📧 **`email`** — as filed by the carrier on its MCS-150
- 👤 **`contactName`** — the company officer on record
- 📍 Full physical **and** mailing address, down to ZIP
- 🚚 **`powerUnits`, `truckUnits`, `busUnits`, `ownedTrucks`** — real fleet size
- 🧑‍✈️ **`totalDrivers`, `cdlDrivers`, `interstateDrivers`**
- ☢️ **`carriesHazmat`**, 🛣️ `annualMileage` — note mileage comes from the MCS-150
  filing, so it is `0` on ~93% of brand-new registrations and non-zero on about half the census
  overall
- 📅 **`registeredDate`** — when the USDOT number was issued, so you can build a **new-entrant feed**
- 🔗 **`saferUrl`** — deep link to the carrier's official SAFER snapshot

### The new-entrant play

A carrier that just got its authority has to buy insurance, factoring, an ELD, fuel cards and a TMS —
usually within weeks. Set `registeredAfter` to last week and sort by newest:

```json
{
  "states": ["TX", "OK", "NM"],
  "registeredAfter": "2026-08-16",
  "requireEmail": true,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxItems": 2000
}
```

Measured on carriers registered in the last weeks: **phone 100%, email 100%, officer name 99%.**

### Who is this for?

Freight brokers and load boards, trucking insurance agents, ELD/TMS/fuel-card vendors, factoring
companies, and equipment dealers — everyone whose customer is a carrier.

### Field coverage — measured, and it depends on carrier age

This is the one thing worth understanding before you buy. Measured across the whole census,
2026-08-27 — the established column is every active carrier registered before 2015 (912,338 of
them), not a hand-picked slice:

| Field | Newly registered | Established (pre-2015) |
|---|---|---|
| `legalName`, `dotNumber`, address, `powerUnits`, `carrierOperation` | **100%** | **100%** |
| `phone` | **100%** | 99% |
| `email` | **100%** | 58% |
| `contactName` | **99%** | 86% |
| `mcNumber` | 35% | 24% |
| `mcs150Date` | 4% | **93%** |
| `dunsNumber` | 5% | **100%** |
| `fax` | 0% | 40% |
| `businessType` | 0% | 17% |

**Why:** a brand-new carrier has filed its contact details but has not yet been issued a DUNS
number or filed a first MCS-150 update. Established carriers have that paperwork, but fewer of
them carry an email address or officer name on file at all. Neither is a scraper defect — it is
what the register contains.

Fleet-wide, across all ~4.5 million carriers: **email ~66%**, MC number ~40%, fax ~26%.

### Honest limits

- **`requireEmail` is enforced on the parsed value, not just the raw field.** The census sometimes
  stores several addresses in one string (`kbaker@prim.com; pschultz@prim.com`) — those are split,
  the first becomes `email` and the rest `additionalEmails`. Rows where nothing parses are dropped
  rather than delivered empty, so you never pay for a contactless row you filtered out.
- **`dbaName` is not available.** The census feed carries the legal name only; the "doing business
  as" name lives on the SAFER page, which is a separate per-carrier fetch and is not part of this
  actor. `saferUrl` deep-links there.
- **Safety ratings and insurance filings are not in this dataset.** They live in FMCSA's L\&I and SMS
  systems. This actor is the census: identity, contact, fleet and registration.
- **Numbers are what the carrier self-reported** on its MCS-150. `mileageYear` tells you how old that
  self-report is — or is `0`, meaning the carrier has not filed an MCS-150 yet (the usual case for
  new registrations).

### Pricing

| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Per carrier returned | **$0.004** |

A 5,000-carrier state list costs **$20**. You are charged only for rows actually delivered — if a
filter drops a row, you do not pay for it.

### FAQ

**Where does the data come from?**
`data.transportation.gov` — the US Department of Transportation's official open-data platform. This
is the government publishing the register for reuse, not a site being scraped.

**How fresh is it?**
The census updates daily, with roughly a one-day lag — sorting by newest returns carriers
registered yesterday or today.

**Can I get every carrier in a state?**
Yes, for every state except California. Set the state and `maxItems: 0`. Note `activeOnly`
defaults to true — turn it off to include inactive carriers. Texas has ~375,000 carriers,
\~193,000 of them active. A single run is capped at 500,000 rows, which covers every state except
California (~502,000 total, ~328,000 active).

**Can I look up specific carriers?**
Put their USDOT numbers in `dotNumbers`.

**How do I skip owner-operators?**
Set `minPowerUnits` to 5 or more.

**Can I get only hazmat carriers?**
Set `hazmatOnly`. There are ~287,000 of them.

**Do I need a proxy?**
No. It is an open government API with no anti-bot. Leave the proxy field empty.

**Why do some carriers have no MC number?**
An MC docket is only issued to for-hire interstate carriers. Intrastate and private fleets
legitimately have none — 40% of the census has one.

**Is the email address verified?**
It is what the carrier filed with the DOT, syntax-checked and de-duplicated by this actor. It is not
deliverability-verified — run it through a verifier if that matters to you.

**Is this legal to use?**
The census is US federal public data published for reuse. You are still responsible for how you
contact people — CAN-SPAM, TCPA and state do-not-call rules apply to your outreach, not to the data.

### Data source and fair use

Data comes from the FMCSA Motor Carrier Census published by the US Department of Transportation on
its open-data platform. No login is used, no rate limit is evaded, and no private system is touched.

# Actor input Schema

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

Two-letter state codes of the carrier's physical address, e.g. TX, CA, FL. Leave empty for all states.

## `registeredAfter` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. This is the new-entrant feed: carriers that just received a USDOT number are the hottest lead for insurance, factoring and ELD vendors. The census updates daily.

## `registeredBefore` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD.

## `carrierOperation` (type: `string`):

Interstate carriers cross state lines and are federally regulated; intrastate operate within one state.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude carriers the FMCSA has marked inactive.

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

Minimum power units (trucks/tractors). 0 = no minimum. Use 5+ to skip owner-operators.

## `maxPowerUnits` (type: `integer`):

Maximum power units. 0 = no maximum.

## `hazmatOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only carriers flagged as transporting hazardous materials.

## `requireEmail` (type: `boolean`):

Drop carriers whose filed contact field holds no usable email address. Applied to the parsed value, so you never receive — or pay for — a contactless row.

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

Drop carriers with no filed phone number.

## `dotNumbers` (type: `array`):

Look up exact carriers by USDOT number. Overrides the other filters for those rows.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Newest first gives you the new-entrant feed; largest first gives you the biggest fleets.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many carriers. 0 = unlimited (the census holds ~4.5 million).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. This is a US government open-data API with no anti-bot, so a proxy is not needed and only adds cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "registeredAfter": "",
  "registeredBefore": "",
  "carrierOperation": "all",
  "activeOnly": true,
  "minPowerUnits": 0,
  "maxPowerUnits": 0,
  "hazmatOnly": false,
  "requireEmail": false,
  "requirePhone": false,
  "dotNumbers": [],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `carriers` (type: `string`):

The dataset of scraped carriers (one item per carrier).

# 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"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapersdelight/fmcsa-carrier-scraper").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"],
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapersdelight/fmcsa-carrier-scraper").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 '{
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call scrapersdelight/fmcsa-carrier-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapersdelight/fmcsa-carrier-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/T9OHhDQHYh1fAYuey/builds/rJURrNFfTRdpX5PJl/openapi.json