FMCSA Trucking Carrier Leads

Export US for-hire carrier businesses by default from the official FMCSA Company Census File. Filter by state, city, fleet size, carrier operation and registration date. JSON, CSV and Excel exports are available from the Apify dataset.

What you get

One record per USDOT number: business and DBA name, registered phone/email when valid, physical address, organization type, census status, power/truck/bus units, driver count, cargo codes, operation/classification, registration date, MCS-150 date and any recorded safety rating/date. Missing or invalid values are null. Cargo values retain the official field-code suffixes. No company-officer names, fax, cell-phone field or mailing-address fields are exported.

Coverage and privacy limitations

Default forHireOnly: true keeps census classifications AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE or EXEMPT FOR HIRE and excludes private-only fleets such as a dairy or steel supplier hauling its own goods. A carrier with both private and for-hire classifications remains included. Set forHireOnly: false to include private-only business fleets. This classification is self-reported census data, not current authority or insurance verification.

This is a deliberately narrow business-only subset, not the full FMCSA census. Only records explicitly marked Partnership or Corporation (business_org_id 2 or 3), with a carrier operation (CARSHIP contains C) and a US physical address, are included. Individuals and missing organization types are always excluded, even when activeOnly is false. The official dictionary says organization type is populated from reviews only, so many genuine companies are omitted.

On October 13, 2026, the source had 98,637 active US carrier records with those explicit business types, compared with 2,109,777 active US carrier entries overall. That historical count includes private-only fleets and is not the default for-hire output count. Counts change as the source updates; missing required names or invalid USDOT IDs can reduce output further.

A classified business can still register a home address, personal phone or personal email. These are public registered contacts, not verified corporate contacts or guaranteed deliverable leads. No claim is made that every returned contact is non-personal. Respect privacy, consent and outreach laws. The Actor does not enrich data or retrieve hidden information.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
maxRecords	1000	Output cap, 1 to 1,000,000. Start small.
forHireOnly	true	Keep AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE or EXEMPT FOR HIRE classifications; false also includes private-only fleets. Not authority verification.
activeOnly	true	Census status A only. False includes inactive/pending business carriers.
state	blank	Two-letter physical-address state code.
city	blank	Exact physical-address city, case-insensitive.
operation	blank	A interstate, B intrastate hazmat, C intrastate non-hazmat.
registeredSince	blank	Inclusive FMCSA ADD_DATE cutoff, YYYY-MM-DD. Not authority grant date.
minPowerUnits	blank	Inclusive minimum self-reported power units.
maxPowerUnits	blank	Inclusive maximum self-reported power units.

{"state":"TX","maxRecords":100,"minPowerUnits":5,"activeOnly":true}

Fleet filters exclude unknown fleet size. Empty results can be valid. Records are paginated in ascending USDOT order; the changing daily source is not a transactionally frozen snapshot. There is no delta mode, cross-run tracking or new-authority feed.

Source and freshness

Official source: FMCSA Company Census File, DOT Open Data, dataset az4n-8mr2. Publisher: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The portal metadata lists a daily update frequency. We query its public Socrata endpoint at run time, without login or proxy.

Field meanings follow the portal's MCMIS Company Census Data Dictionary, Revision 8 (January 23, 2026). Self-reported fleet/contact information can be old or incomplete. Census active status is not proof of current operating authority, insurance, safety fitness or permission to operate. Safety ratings can be historical or absent. Not affiliated with or endorsed by FMCSA/DOT.

Pricing

$0.005 per returned record ($5 per 1,000 records), pay per event. No monthly subscription. The run's charge limit is respected. Check the displayed run estimate and platform charges before running a large export.

Development

From the monorepo root: npm test. Live source check: node actors/fmcsa/src/smoke.js. Unit tests cover business exclusion, every filter, date/contact cleanup, validation, query escaping, pagination, output caps and source-layout errors.