Sources that carry it

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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Licensing & Insurance Carrier Search

Official standing public browser lookup for FMCSA Licensing & Insurance records by USDOT number, docket number, legal/DBA name, and state or country. Carrier details document identity, addresses, operating-authority status and history, public regulatory insurance filings and compliance, BOC-3 compliance, pending applications, and revocations. No developer schema is offered, so Feature paths, wire types, and cardinalities remain unknown.

Free National US 32 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
MCMIS Company Census File

Daily public Company Census dataset for active, inactive, and pending FMCSA entities. Its Socrata API and reusable full-file export expose the current 147-column MCMIS row schema covering entity identity, operations, equipment, drivers, cargo, addresses, docket identifiers, and review/safety fields. Equipment fields are carrier-reported owned, term-leased, or trip-leased fleet counts, not VIN or title ownership.

Free APIFull file National US 27 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Motus Active/Pending Insurance — All With History

Daily public active/pending insurance-policy filing dataset linked to carriers, brokers and freight forwarders by docket and USDOT number. Multiple policy rows remain rows; no count is inferred. The matching daily-difference dataset is a delivery variant.

Free APIFull file National US 7 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Motus Authority History — All With History

Daily public authority-history dataset with one row per authority status event/relationship and exact type, status, reason and change-date fields. Multiple rows remain rows, not counts. The daily-difference AuthHist dataset is a delivery variant.

Free APIFull file National US 5 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Motus BOC-3 Process Agent — All With History

Daily public full/baseline dataset with one row per Blanket Company/process-agent designation associated with an operating authority. It emits represented-entity docket and USDOT identifiers and the designated company's name and address. Identifiers may repeat across authorities; no designation count or employment relationship is inferred. The daily-difference BOC3 dataset is a delivery variant.

Free APIFull file National US 3 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Motus Carrier — All With History

Daily public operating-authority carrier dataset. Each row is an authority/docket relationship, so identifiers can repeat; no nested authority object or derived count is asserted. The corresponding daily-difference dataset is a delivery variant.

Free APIFull file National US 12 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
Motus Insurance History — All With History

Daily public prior-policy dataset carrying cancellation/replacement/name-change/transfer reason, policy type and effective/cancellation dates. It describes the prior policy, not a subsequent replacement. Multiple rows remain history, not counts; daily differences are a delivery variant.

Free APIFull file National US 10 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
QCMobile API

Official API-keyed REST/JSON service for querying U.S. DOT-registered motor carriers by carrier name, USDOT number, or docket number. Official documentation defines carrier identity, operating status, passenger-equipment, address/contact, complaint, and selected BASIC safety elements; other endpoint families remain omitted where scalar response elements are not documented.

Free API National US 13 fields
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administ…
SAFER Company Snapshot

Free standing one-company browser lookup returning a condensed MCMIS profile with identity and address, registration and authority status, operation and cargo classifications, reported fleet and driver figures, inspection and crash summaries, and safety rating. Power Units aggregates specified equipment owned, term leased, or trip leased by the carrier and is not title ownership.

Free National US 35 fields
Chicago Police Department
Traffic Crashes — Vehicles

Daily unit-grain public data for independently moving roadway units involved in CPD crashes, coordinated with Crashes and People through documented record keys.

Free APIFull file Subnational 28 fields

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