FMCSA New Carriers: Recently Added USDOT Records & Lookup
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FMCSA New Carriers: Recently Added USDOT Records & Lookup
Trucking companies, brokers and freight forwarders added to FMCSA's census in the last days, from the official DOT open data: fleet size, drivers, cargo, interstate or intrastate, hazmat, for-hire, address. Filter by state, cargo or fleet size, track only new ones, or look up USDOT numbers.
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FMCSA New Carriers: Recently Added USDOT Records
Trucking companies, brokers, freight forwarders and other entities added to FMCSA's motor carrier census in the last days, read straight from the official FMCSA Company Census File on the U.S. Department of Transportation's open-data portal. One table with fleet size, drivers, cargo, interstate or intrastate operation, hazmat and for-hire status, and the physical address. Filter by state, cargo, entity type or fleet size, schedule it daily with tracking to get only records you have not received, or look up USDOT numbers.
A 7-day window is roughly 1,000 to 1,300 records.
What you get for each record
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
dotNumber, legalName, dbaName | USDOT number, legal name and DBA as registered |
addedDate | FMCSA's add date: the date the record was created or reactivated (see below) |
status | ACTIVE, INACTIVE or PENDING (a Mexico-domiciled applicant under review) |
operation | INTERSTATE, INTRASTATE_HAZMAT or INTRASTATE_NON_HAZMAT |
entityTypes | CARRIER, BROKER, FREIGHT_FORWARDER, SHIPPER, REGISTRANT, INTERMODAL_EQUIPMENT_PROVIDER, CARGO_TANK |
classifications, forHire | FMCSA's classifications (Authorized For Hire, Private Property and so on); forHire = Authorized For Hire |
hazmat | FMCSA's hazardous materials indicator |
powerUnits, trucks, buses, drivers, cdlDrivers | Fleet and driver counts as reported |
cargo, cargoOther | Cargo types, with FMCSA's own names, and the text of "Other" |
dockets | MC, MX or FF docket numbers on the record (new registrants usually have none yet) |
address | Physical address: street, city, state, ZIP, country |
safetyRating, safetyRatingDate | SATISFACTORY, CONDITIONAL, UNSATISFACTORY or NOT_RATED |
dunsNumber | Dun & Bradstreet number when given |
saferUrl, sourceRecordUrl | FMCSA's SAFER company snapshot and the exact record on the open-data portal |
changeStatus, firstSeen | With tracking: FIRST_RUN, NEW or SEEN |
What "added" means
FMCSA's data dictionary defines the add date as the date the record was created, reactivated, or systematically updated. Almost all records added in a given week have no review, rating or prior form history, but some are reactivations of older entities, and FMCSA publishes no field that separates the two. USDOT numbers are not issued in order, so the number does not tell either.
Owner-operators and personal data
No phone numbers, e-mail addresses, company officers or mailing addresses are collected; those columns are not even requested. FMCSA gives no organisation type for new records, so a record whose legal name has no company suffix (LLC, Inc., Corp., Co., Ltd., LP and so on) is treated as an owner-operator registered under their own name. In lists those records are left out and only counted (about 14% of added records); a USDOT number lookup returns them without name, street, ZIP or DUNS.
Filters
daysBack or fromDate/toDate, states, operations, entityTypes, cargo, forHireOnly, hazmatOnly, minPowerUnits, maxPowerUnits, includeInactive, maxItems. A USDOT number or name lookup ignores the date window and returns the current record whatever its status.
Things to know
- The census is refreshed daily and trails registrations by about one to two days; the run summary shows the newest add date published, and the status message says when it is behind your window.
- Operating authority and insurance are not included: FMCSA's separate authority dataset stopped being updated in May 2026. The SAFER link shows the live authority status.
- If the census has not been refreshed for more than 7 days, the run fails instead of returning stale records as current.
Data
The FMCSA Company Census File (MCMIS), published by the U.S. Department of Transportation as open data, read through the portal's public API with one request per second as the portal asks. Code meanings follow FMCSA's own data dictionary (revision 08). No login and no scraping of search pages.
