fleetfax

Free, instant, and comprehensive carrier vetting with a single click, directly from your browser. Built for freight brokers.

fleetfax is the trusted free FMCSA carrier vetting tool freight brokers use to vet a USDOT or MC number in seconds. Paste a USDOT or MC number. fleetfax pulls every signal that matters: risk flags, authority history, inspection trends, crash rate, authority type, insurance filings, fraud heuristics, and bidder phone verification, all laid out in one side panel that lives where ever you work. No signup. No paywall. No "free tier with limits." ★ NEW IN V3.0.0 (May, 2026) ✓ PDF carrier report. One click compliance artifact with every signal in the panel. ✓ Public shareable profile pages. Copy a link, your colleague sees the same trust strip and flag summary even without the extension. ✓ Per BASIC violation breakdown. Unsafe Driving, HOS, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances, and Vehicle Maintenance. ✓ Crash trends. See whether a carrier is trending worse or better, not just the 24-month total. ★ INSTANT TRUST BAR The top of the panel tells you in five seconds whether to keep reading. Clickable USDOT and MC, authority status, broker pill if dual-authority, normalized crash rate vs. the FMCSA national baseline, and any active out-of-service orders. ★ TWENTY-TWO EDITORIAL RISK FLAGS Grouped by what they tell you. Each flag's subtitle in the panel explains the rule in plain English. OPERATING AUTHORITY: active OOS order, USDOT inactive, authority inactive, revocation pending, conditional or unsatisfactory rating, satisfactory rating more than 5 years old, MCS-150 update overdue, new authority under 6 months, authority previously revoked. INSURANCE: cancellation pending, cancellation already in effect (carrier liability or broker BMC-84/85 bond). OPERATIONAL FITNESS: vehicle or driver OOS rate above national average, no recent inspections for stated fleet size, crash rate above national, fatal crash on record. FRAUD & IDENTITY: chameleon carrier (large fleet, zero inspections), MC-renting pattern (inspection activity dropped to zero in the last 12 months), PO Box or PMB physical address, also holds broker authority. ★ AUTHORITY HISTORY TIMELINE Every substantive authority event (grants, revocations, reinstatements, name changes) with FMCSA's administrative noise filtered out. Only what actually moved the carrier's status. ★ 12-MONTH INSPECTION CHART Volume and out-of-service rate per month. Catch a quiet contraction. Confirm a real operator. See the trend, not just a number. ★ VERIFY BIDDER Paste a bidder's phone number. fleetfax compares it against the number FMCSA has on file for that carrier, then identifies the line operator. A known burner or disposable VoIP gets a critical risk chip. Legitimate enterprise VoIP shows green. Mobile and landline matches are cleared. ★ ADDRESS CHECK ON GOOGLE MAPS One-click button on the carrier's physical address. Opens Google Maps so you can eyeball whether a real terminal exists or it's a residential lot. WHY FREE Carrier vetting is a right, not a paywall. FMCSA publishes the data; the hard part is reading it, knowing which combinations should stop a load and which patterns matter. The incumbents priced their tools like they own the underlying data. They don't. fleetfax is free forever for everything it does today, with no lookup cap, no trial, and no card. Not all free carrier vetting tools are created equal. PRIVACY: https://www.fleetfax.com/privacy HOW TO USE: https://www.fleetfax.com/onboarding 1. Install and pin the fleetfax icon to your toolbar. 2. Click the icon or press Cmd / Ctrl + Shift + F to open the side panel. 3. Paste a USDOT or MC number, or right-click any number on any page. Built for freight brokers. Vet smarter. Book with confidence. Built and operated in California, USA.