Live USDOT / MC lookup
Pulls a live snapshot from FMCSA's QCMobile system. Data is FMCSA's, updated on their schedule.
What this answers, and where the answer stops
A lookup is a record check, not a recommendation. The three facts below are the whole boundary.
A live query to FMCSA's QCMobile by USDOT or MC number, returning 13 fields: legal and DBA name, location, authority to operate, common and contract authority, BIPD insurance on file, safety rating, out-of-service status, and fleet size.
It is FMCSA's data on FMCSA's schedule, reproduced as returned — not a credit check, not an insurance certificate, and not a judgement about whether a carrier suits your load. UIIA, TWIC, hazmat and reefer are self-declared credentials that are not in FMCSA public data, so they are marked "soon" rather than guessed at.
Nothing, and no account. QCMobile is FMCSA's free public API; every field shown links back to a government source you can check us against.
Three steps, no account
Enter a USDOT or MC number
Either registry works — switch with the toggle. A docket number is printed back with the registry prefix it actually belongs to, so an FF or MX docket is never relabelled as MC.
We ask FMCSA, live
The request goes to QCMobile at the moment you press Verify. Nothing is served from a stale copy, and a number with no FMCSA record comes back saying exactly that rather than guessing.
Open the official source
The 5 government systems below are linked directly. For authority history, insurance forms or BASIC percentile scores, go to the system that owns them.
Official verification sources
The government systems that own the detail. Each opens in a new tab.
FMCSA SAFER
The official Company Snapshot — operating authority, insurance status, out-of-service orders and crash/inspection history by USDOT or MC number.
Open ↗FMCSA SMS (BASIC scores)
Safety Measurement System percentile scores across the BASIC categories (unsafe driving, HOS, vehicle maintenance, and more).
Open ↗FMCSA License & Insurance
Authoritative L&I system: authority history, active/pending/revoked status, and the insurance forms (BMC-91, BOC-3) on file.
Open ↗UIIA Member Search
The Uniform Intermodal Interchange Agreement registry — confirm whether a drayage carrier is a UIIA member eligible to interchange containers.
Open ↗TSA TWIC
Transportation Worker Identification Credential — the port-access credential drivers need for secure maritime facilities.
Open ↗Filter carriers by compliance
FMCSA public data reliably gives us drayage/intermodal today. UIIA, TWIC, Hazmat and Reefer are self-declared credentials we're adding next — we won't fake them.
Two things a free carrier-check usually gets wrong
It links the source instead of summarising it
Every field here is FMCSA's, and the 5 systems that own the detail are one click away. A commercial summary of a government record is somebody else's reading of it; the record is the thing that binds you.
Authority history, the BMC-91 and BOC-3 forms on file, and BASIC percentile scores are deliberately NOT reproduced here — they live in systems that show them properly.
- Official systems linked
- 5
- Fields returned per lookup
- 13
- Account required
- None
It says which filters are real
FMCSA public data reliably gives us drayage and intermodal today, so that filter is live and carries a count. UIIA membership, TWIC, hazmat and reefer are self-declared credentials that FMCSA does not publish — they are marked "soon", not shown as empty results.
A filter that silently returns nothing is worse than a filter that says it is not built yet.
- Drayage / intermodal carriers
- 36,740
- Carriers in the directory
- 335,597
- Credentials not yet live
- 4
Questions
Where does this data come from?
FMCSA's QCMobile system — the agency's own free public API — queried live when you press Verify. The fields are reproduced as returned, not re-derived, re-scored or re-worded.
How current is it?
It is as current as FMCSA is. Nothing is served from a cached copy on this page: each lookup is a fresh request, so what you see is what the agency was publishing at that moment. How often FMCSA itself refreshes a given field is theirs to decide, which is why every official system is linked below.
Why does the MC / Docket line sometimes show a dash?
Because FMCSA returned no docket number for that carrier. Where one is returned it is printed with the registry prefix it actually belongs to — MC, FF or MX — rather than being relabelled as MC, so a freight-forwarder docket is never shown as motor-carrier authority.
Does "allowed to operate: Yes" mean the carrier is safe to book?
No — it is one FMCSA field about operating authority, shown exactly as the agency returns it. It is not a view on insurance adequacy, crash history, or whether a carrier suits your freight. For the detail behind it, open SAFER for the company snapshot, SMS for BASIC percentile scores, and Licensing & Insurance for authority history and the forms on file.