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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Registered motor carriers — license

The Company Census File is the register the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration keeps of every active interstate and intrastate-for-hire motor carrier, sold here as data under a written license: the whole set of records for a scope, delivered as files and through an interface, refreshed for the term, with the right to use it inside the licensee's own work.

What you get

2,214,980 rows, newest load read 2026-10-15T06:22:42.019288+00:00 — download 100 real rows (CSV, no email).

Buy the license

Built to order from the full national dataset and delivered by email — typically within an hour, always within 2 hours.

  • The nation, internal use — $6,490/year
  • The nation, with redistribution — $95,000/year

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What the license is

Every active interstate and intrastate-for-hire motor carrier on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's register — operating authority, cargo class, fleet size, driver count, home county, safety rating — with each carrier's inspection and crash record joined to it. Delivered as files (CSV and Parquet with a checksum manifest) and through an API key, refreshed for the length of your license term, with a written license naming what you may do with it.

License terms and price

  • The whole register, internal use: $6,490/year
  • The whole register, with the right to redistribute: $95,000/year

Update cadence: rebuilt daily from the live register.

Download a 100-row sample (CSV) — the license file's own columns, a hundred real rows, no email required.

The full register is 2,214,980 carriers. License it — the nation, internal use, $6,490/year.

See the full data sheet — 3 tables, every column, as the register holds it

Tables and columns

fmcsa_carriers — Every carrier on the FMCSA Company Census File, as the register holds it.

2,214,980 rows, newest load read 2026-10-15T06:22:42.019288+00:00

  • dot_number — The carrier's USDOT number -- the federal id the three FMCSA tables join on.
  • legal_name — The carrier's legal name of record.
  • dba_name — The carrier's "doing business as" name, when filed.
  • status_code — Active/inactive census status.
  • phy_state — Physical address state (USPS code).
  • phy_city — Physical address city.
  • phy_cnty_fips — Physical address county, as a FIPS code.
  • phy_zip — Physical address ZIP code.
  • carrier_operation — Interstate or intrastate operating authority.
  • hm_ind — Whether the carrier is flagged to haul hazardous materials.
  • safety_rating — FMCSA's safety rating (Satisfactory/Conditional/Unsatisfactory), when on file.
  • power_units — Number of power units (trucks/tractors) registered.
  • truck_units — Number of straight trucks registered.
  • total_drivers — Total drivers the carrier reports.
  • total_cdl — Drivers holding a commercial driver's license.
  • mcs150_date — Date of the carrier's most recent MCS-150 census update.
  • add_date — Date the carrier was added to the census.
  • cargo_flags — The cargo classifications the carrier is flagged to carry.

fmcsa_inspections — Every roadside inspection on the register, with its violation counts.

2,855,447 rows, newest load read 2026-09-15T04:08:37.166691+00:00

  • inspection_id — FMCSA's unique id for this roadside inspection.
  • dot_number — The carrier's USDOT number -- the federal id the three FMCSA tables join on.
  • insp_date — Date of the inspection.
  • insp_year — Year of the inspection.
  • report_state — State that filed the inspection report.
  • county_state — State of the county where the inspection occurred.
  • county_fips — County, as a FIPS code.
  • insp_level_id — FMCSA's inspection level/depth code.
  • hazmat_placard_req — Whether the vehicle required a hazmat placard.
  • cargo_tank — Whether the vehicle was a cargo tank.
  • post_acc_ind — Whether this inspection followed a crash.
  • insp_interstate — Whether the carrier operates interstate.
  • viol_total — Total violations found.
  • oos_total — Total out-of-service violations found.
  • driver_viol_total — Driver-related violations found.
  • driver_oos_total — Driver-related out-of-service violations found.
  • vehicle_viol_total — Vehicle-related violations found.
  • vehicle_oos_total — Vehicle-related out-of-service violations found.
  • hazmat_viol_total — Hazmat violations found.
  • hazmat_oos_total — Hazmat out-of-service violations found.
  • insp_carrier_name — Carrier name as printed on the inspection report.

fmcsa_crashes — Every reported crash on the register.

2,320,769 rows, newest load read 2026-09-15T04:08:37.29864+00:00

  • crash_id — FMCSA's unique id for this crash report.
  • dot_number — The carrier's USDOT number -- the federal id the three FMCSA tables join on.
  • report_date — Date the crash was reported.
  • crash_year — Year of the crash.
  • report_state — State that filed the crash report.
  • county_state — State of the county where the crash occurred.
  • county_fips — County, as a FIPS code.
  • city — City, as the source filing prints it.
  • fatalities — Fatalities in the crash.
  • injuries — Injuries in the crash.
  • tow_away — Whether a vehicle was towed away.
  • hazmat_released — Whether hazardous material was released.
  • vehicle_hazmat_placard — Whether the vehicle carried a hazmat placard.
  • truck_bus_ind — Whether the vehicle was a truck or bus.
  • federal_recordable — Whether the crash meets FMCSA's federal recordable threshold.
  • crash_carrier_name — Carrier name as printed on the crash report.

Sample built 2026-10-20T00:02:47Z (UTC).

Who buys it

Freight and passenger carrier analysts, transportation economists, insurance and risk researchers, state transportation and safety offices, university transportation centers, trade associations, and newsrooms covering the trucking and bus industries.

Questions

What arrives, and how often?
The register arrives as files and through an interface, and it is refreshed for the length of the license term. Each refresh carries the records for the scope you licensed: the carrier, its authority, its cargo class, its fleet and drivers, its county, and its safety, inspection and crash record.
What may a licensee do with the records?
The license states the rights in writing. Internal-use scopes cover use inside the licensee's own work, including analysis, products, reports and filings. The redistribution scope adds the right to pass the records to others in the form the license allows.
Which scope should an institution buy?
It depends on what the work covers and who sees it. One state suits work confined to a single state. The national scope suits work that spans the network. The redistribution scope suits institutions that publish or supply the records to their own readers and clients.
What about a piece of research rather than the whole register?
A research engagement is quoted per piece of work. The scope of study is agreed in writing, and the fee follows what the work covers, whether that is one cargo class, a set of counties, or the national register itself.

How the figures are built

Every figure is the one its source document printed, shown with the file it came from. The three shares that are divided and the positions that are ranked are named on one page. Nothing is estimated. How each figure is defined.

Who publishes this

VELARIONAI LLC · Andrew Richardson, founder. Corrections reach a person: hello@velarionrecords.com. About this publication.

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