FMCSA Carrier Safety Scraper — DOT, Inspections & Crashes API

Search official FMCSA carrier, inspection, violation, and crash records by trucking-company name or exact USDOT number. The Actor uses public U.S. Department of Transportation datasets, requires no API key, and returns source-linked evidence for carrier onboarding, commercial-auto insurance, compliance review, and trucking lead workflows.

What it returns

Carrier identity and operating evidence

• USDOT number, legal name, and DBA name
• Active, inactive, or pending registration status
• MC/MX/FF operating-authority docket numbers and status codes
• FMCSA safety rating and review dates when available
• Power units, trucks, buses, drivers, CDL drivers, mileage, and fleet size
• Phone, cell phone, fax, email, physical address, and mailing address when reported
• Hazardous-material indicator and reported cargo classifications

Latest inspection and violation evidence

• Inspection ID, report number/state, date/time, location, level, and facility code
• Total, driver, vehicle, and hazmat violation counts
• Driver, vehicle, hazmat, and total out-of-service counts
• Linked violation codes, descriptions, units, citation numbers, and out-of-service indicators
• Official record URLs for the inspection and source dataset

Latest crash-involvement evidence

• Crash report ID, number/state, date/time, location, city, and reporting agency
• Injury, fatality, tow-away, hazmat, and federal/state-recordable indicators
• Vehicle/configuration/road/weather/light source codes and reported event sequence
• Official crash-record URL

Quick test

The strongest first-run workflow is an exact USDOT lookup:

{
  "dotNumber": "54283",
  "fetchSafetyHistory": true,
  "maxInspections": 10,
  "maxCrashes": 10
}

Search by carrier name:

{
  "carrierName": "Swift Transportation",
  "statusCode": "A",
  "fetchSafetyHistory": true,
  "maxResults": 10
}

Carrier-only lead search without secondary safety-history requests:

{
  "carrierName": "Transport",
  "state": "TX",
  "statusCode": "A",
  "fetchSafetyHistory": false,
  "maxResults": 25
}

Input

Field	Required	Description
carrierName	One of name/DOT	Searches legal and DBA names.
dotNumber	One of name/DOT	Exact USDOT lookup; takes precedence over name.
state	No	Two-letter physical-address state filter.
statusCode	No	A active, I inactive, or P pending for name searches. Exact USDOT lookups ignore this filter.
fetchSafetyHistory	No	Attach latest inspection, violation, and crash records. Defaults to true.
maxInspections	No	Latest inspections per carrier, 1–25. Defaults to 10.
maxCrashes	No	Latest crash reports per carrier, 1–25. Defaults to 10.
maxResults	No	Total carrier response cap, 1–100.

If no carrier name or DOT number is supplied, the Actor uses deterministic Swift Transportation USDOT 54283, so first runs and Store quality tests return current carrier and safety evidence quickly.

Common workflows

• Carrier onboarding and USDOT/MC verification
• Commercial-auto insurance and transportation risk review
• Inspection and out-of-service violation research
• Reported crash-involvement screening
• Freight-broker and shipper carrier due diligence
• Trucking-company lead generation and fleet-size segmentation
• CRM/vendor-record enrichment and monitoring

Evidence limits and responsible use

FMCSA records are screening evidence, not a complete or real-time safety determination.

• Crash involvement does not establish fault or preventability. A crash record shows reported involvement. It is not proof that the carrier or driver caused the crash.
• Inspection violations and citations can be corrected, challenged, settled, or adjudicated later.
• State and FMCSA reports can be delayed, duplicated, amended, or removed as corrections arrive.
• Driver data are excluded from the public inspection and crash files because of privacy restrictions.
• Safety ratings, operating authority, registration, inspections, violations, and crashes have different meanings and update schedules; do not collapse them into a single pass/fail conclusion.
• Output is bounded by maxInspections and maxCrashes and is not represented as complete history.

Review the linked official records and current FMCSA systems before making a safety, insurance, employment, or contracting decision.

Official sources

• FMCSA Company Census File
• FMCSA Vehicle Inspection File
• FMCSA Vehicle Inspections and Violations
• FMCSA Crash File
• FMCSA Data Dissemination Program