Half of freight fraud hides behind a clean record. One read across 26 federal datasets catches what a lookup misses: fraud patterns, reincarnated authorities, safety percentiles estimated against peers. All of it, free.
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Type the lane in plain English. fleetfax returns carriers with roadside inspections and crashes recorded on that route, ranked by the record, never by paid placement.
Reincarnated authorities, rented MC numbers, insurance lapses, safety against peers. The whole federal record on any carrier.
Each carrier shows what the federal record says, what your policy says and what you ran with them. Revoked authority and cancelled insurance show up next to it.
Why lookups fail
Hijacked identities, purchased MC numbers, reincarnated authorities: modern freight fraud is built to look clean on the lookup. A SAFER snapshot that says “Active, insured, not rated” tells you what the carrier filed, not who is running it.
Identity
Insurance
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An illustrative composite. Every line above is a signal fleetfax computes on every carrier. None of them appear on the lookup.
Unify
26 federal datasets that normally sit in separate systems, read together into one report, with the filing dates shown.
Every report leads with what matters: the blocking issues and cautions, each backed by the data behind it.
When a public insurance record looks wrong, the report shows what FMCSA’s live system says. Read the research.
Derive
94% of registered USDOT numbers, active and inactive, have no federal safety rating
Unrated doesn’t mean unsafe. It means no compliance review on record.
A fleetfax estimate, where the record allows.
Illustrative composite. Carrier names are fictional and the DOT numbers are unissued. Drawn from the FMCSA registration and inspection records fleetfax reads on every carrier.
Build
Your book is the carriers you work with, in one place. Add them by DOT or MC number, paste a list you already keep, or import a spreadsheet.
Each carrier shows what the federal record says, what your policy says and what you ran with them. A free account keeps up to 50 carriers (launch offer through Oct 14, normally 15).
3 of 50 book slots used · launch offer through Oct 14, normally 15
Every number you paste is matched to the federal record before it lands in the book. Carrier names are fictional and the DOT numbers are unissued.
Monitor
The record you vetted in March is not the record hauling your load in July. Authority gets revoked, insurance is replaced mid-quarter, enforcement cases land, and none of it announces itself. Most carriers are checked once, the day they are onboarded, and never again.
Your book turns that one-time check into a standing one. Every carrier in it shows what changed each time you come back. Changes on carriers with email alerts come in one nightly email, blocking changes first.
Filter the book by what is wrong with it. Open a carrier for the finding, the rule that decided it, and similar carriers that still pass your policy. See where your carriers were observed. Compare three side by side. Free. Carrier names are fictional.
See the book →The federal record behind every report, dataset by dataset
Sizes as of Oct 4, 2026.
Facts, not opinions
The call stays yours. Every carrier is checked against the fleetfax starter policy, or against your own rules on Pro. When you need to show your work, the record is already on the page: every signal is read from a federal filing, and the report links straight to the carrier’s own FMCSA file. It’s the promise in the name: the fax is for facts.
Since May 14, 2026
In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, the Supreme Court held unanimously that brokers answer under state law for the carriers they select. The stakes were never abstract: NHTSA’s fatality census recorded 5,472 people killed in crashes involving large trucks in 2023, and GAO has found that reincarnated “chameleon” carriers are involved in severe crashes at about three times the rate of other new carriers. fleetfax puts the full federal record in front of you, with every fact traced to its filing.
Sources: Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, No. 24-1238, decided May 14, 2026 · NHTSA FARS 2023 · GAO-12-364 · TIA State of Fraud 2025
The choice used to be a free lookup that restates filings, or a paid platform with a monthly fee. fleetfax gives you the full check free. Run it on every load.
| Capability | The government lookup | Paid vetting platforms | fleetfax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Check carriers without a subscription | $0 | $99 to $515 a monthor priced by quote | $05 full reports a day, 20 with a free account |
| Look up a carrier with no sign-up | No account | An account and a paid plan, trial or demo | No account, no card |
| See who a carrier is tied toShared officers, addresses and phones | Not shown | Paid plans only, if offered | Free counts in every report; names on Pro |
| See safety against similar carriers | Hidden for most carriers since 2015 | Paid plans only, if offered | Free peer percentilesA fleetfax estimate, where the record allows |
| Know when a carrier changes | Not tracked | Paid plans only | Free for your bookUp to 50 carriers free through Oct 14, up to 200 on Pro |
Comparison based on the platforms’ published plans and pages, Oct 2026
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There is no catch. Carrier reports are free, with a daily limit: no trial, no card, and no signup for your first 5 reports a day. A free fleetfax account gives you 20 a day, shows the phone and email on file, and adds carrier sourcing and a book of up to 50 carriers (launch offer through Oct 14, normally 15), with changes on every one shown in your account.
The public federal record: FMCSA’s published datasets covering registration, operating authority, insurance filings, roadside inspections, crashes, and safety ratings.
No. fleetfax reports what the record shows and links the evidence. There is no score and no recommendation. The call is yours.
No. Every flag, caution, and ranking is computed from the federal record by fixed rules. Ask about the same carrier twice and you get the same answer, and it changes only when the record changes.
It means the public federal record shows no blockers or cautions. The record cannot show fraud that has not surfaced yet. A clean report is a strong data point inside your process, not a substitute for it.
No. FMCSA stopped publishing the official percentiles in 2015. fleetfax computes its own from the same public records, comparing each carrier with similar carriers. Every number is labeled as a fleetfax estimate.
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