fleetfax · Carrier Lookup & Vetting

Free FMCSA carrier lookup and vetting. Verify any DOT or MC number, or search by name, email, or phone, for safety and fraud flags.

fleetfax is the free FMCSA carrier lookup and vetting tool freight brokers use to verify any carrier in seconds, by USDOT, MC, company name, email, or phone. fleetfax autocompletes as you type and resolves to the right carrier, then pulls every signal that matters: risk flags, authority history, inspection trends, crash rate vs. peers, broker-vs-carrier status, insurance filings, and fraud heuristics, all laid out in one side panel that lives next to your load board. ★ NEW IN v3.5 ✓ Safety vs. peers. See where a carrier ranks against carriers of similar size and type on each safety area (unsafe driving, hours of service, vehicle maintenance, driver fitness, crash rate), not just one national average. ✓ Operating-area map. See where a carrier actually runs. Its recurring lanes are traced along real interstate routes from observed roadside inspections, not self-reported territory or tracked loads. ✓ Fleet and equipment. Power units, drivers, annual mileage, and the equipment behind the MCS-150 filing. Based on real inspection data. ✓ Connections. Surfaces links to other carriers in the public record: a shared officer tied to a carrier whose authority was revoked, or trucks that have also run under other operations, each with its ordinary explanation noted. ✓ Search any way you have the carrier: USDOT, MC, company name, email, or phone. Pick the type or just start typing; fleetfax autocompletes company names as you go. ✓ Verdict-led report. A clear status line and four at-a-glance signals (authority, insurance, safety, crashes), each clickable to open the full detail on fleetfax.com. ✓ Shareable public profile pages, steadier MC and email lookups, and a Refresh button for a live re-fetch. ★ THE AT A GLANCE BAR The top of the panel tells you in five seconds whether to keep reading: clickable USDOT and MC numbers, authority status, a broker pill if the entity also holds broker authority, crash rate ranked against carriers of similar size and type, and any active out-of-service orders. ★ RISK FLAGS Every flag ships free. No premium tier, no hidden upgrade. Each subtitle tells you what's happening in plain English, not a code. OPERATING AUTHORITY & STATUS: can they legally haul this load? ✓ Active FMCSA out-of-service order, legally prohibited from operating ✓ USDOT record inactive, FMCSA registration no longer active ✓ Operating authority inactive, no active authority on file ✓ Authority revocation pending, with the effective date called out ✓ Conditional or unsatisfactory safety rating ✓ Safety rating more than 5 years old, beyond FMCSA's nominal audit cycle ✓ New authority, active less than 6 months, limited vetting history ✓ Authority previously revoked, with a recency band INSURANCE & COVERAGE: is the load financially protected? ✓ Insurance cancellation pending, graduated to critical inside 30 days ✓ Insurance already lapsed, including broker BMC-84/85 bonds OPERATIONAL FITNESS: can they actually do the job safely? ✓ No recent inspections for a stated fleet (5+ units claimed, none in 12+ months) ✓ Vehicle out-of-service rate more than 2× national ✓ Driver out-of-service rate more than 2× national ✓ Crash rate worse than peers, ranked against similar carriers ✓ Fatal crash on record in the last 24 months FRAUD & IDENTITY SIGNALS: are they who they say they are? ✓ Chameleon carrier, claims a fleet with no inspection record to back it ✓ Dual authority, entity holds both broker AND carrier authority ✓ PO Box / mail-receiving agency listed as the physical address ✓ Officer also listed on a carrier whose authority was revoked, sharing this carrier's address or phone ✓ Trucks also operated under other carriers ★ UNIVERSAL CARRIER LOOKUP fleetfax takes whatever you've got: a USDOT or MC/DOT number, a company name, a dispatch email, or a phone number off a rate confirmation, and resolves it to the right carrier, guaranteeing that you will always find the carrier you are looking for. ★ CRASH RATE VS. PEERS A carrier's crashes per mile over 24 months, ranked against carriers of similar size and type rather than one national number, so a carrier with 3 crashes and 200 trucks is not read the same as one with 3 crashes and 6 trucks. Stated in plain English, like "fewer crashes per mile than about 95% of similar carriers." A fleetfax estimate from public FMCSA data, not the official FMCSA/CSA percentile, which is not public. ★ OPERATING-AREA MAP A map of where a carrier has actually been seen operating. Recurring corridors are traced along real interstate routes and weighted by how often the carrier turns up there, drawn from observed roadside inspections rather than self-reported territory. A quick way to sanity-check whether a carrier really runs the lane you are booking. ★ AUTHORITY HISTORY, CLEANED UP A timeline of every substantive authority event (grants, revocations, reinstatements, name changes), with FMCSA's administrative noise filtered out. ★ FLEET AND EQUIPMENT Power units, drivers, annual mileage, and the equipment mix behind the MCS-150 filing, against what we have actually seen in roadside inspections, so you can tell a one-truck operation from a real fleet at a glance. ★ CONNECTIONS fleetfax cross-references public records to surface when a carrier is linked to others: an officer also listed on a carrier whose FMCSA authority was revoked, or trucks inspected operating under other carriers. Each link is stated as a plain fact alongside its ordinary explanation. ★ RIGHT-CLICK SEARCH Select any USDOT or MC number anywhere (a load board, an email, an FMCSA page, a Slack message), right-click, choose "Search with fleetfax." Done. ★ SEARCH HISTORY Your last 20 lookups, kept locally on your device, with carrier name and flag count next to each. One click to reopen. ★ SHAREABLE PUBLIC PROFILE PAGES Hit Copy Link and your colleague gets a working preview of the same carrier at fleetfax.com/carrier/<usdot>, no install required. PRIVACY fleetfax does not read website content. The extension has no permission to access any page you visit. The only data it transmits is what you put into it: a USDOT or MC number, or text in the bug-report form. Anonymous usage events are sent to Google Analytics with carrier numbers hashed; no advertising, no third-party tracking SDKs. Full policy: https://www.fleetfax.com/privacy HOW TO USE IT 1. Install the extension and pin the fleetfax icon to your toolbar. 2. Click the icon to open the side panel. 3. Search by USDOT, MC, company name, email, or phone, or right-click any number on any page, and click 'Search with fleetfax'. Built for freight brokers. Vet smarter. 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