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.
One row per carrier: what the federal record says, what your policy says, what you ran with them. Revoked authority and cancelled insurance show up on the row.
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
Operations
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.
And when a public insurance record looks wrong, fleetfax checks it against FMCSA’s system of record and shows what that 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.
One row per carrier: what the federal record says, what your policy says, and what you actually 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 the carriers you monitor are emailed, blocking changes first.
Filter the book by what is wrong with it. Open a row 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 before you book, 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 for free, so you can run it on every load, not just the ones that already look wrong.
| Capability | The government lookup | Paid vetting platforms | fleetfax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | A monthly fee | Free |
| The full federal record, unified | Fragments, one system at a time | Restated filings, plus alerts | One report |
| Links between carriers: reincarnation, shared officers, fraud patterns | None | Partial, at the top tiers | On every carrier |
| Safety measured against peers | Hidden since 2015 | Rarely, and unlabeled | A fleetfax estimate, where the record allows |
| Where the trucks were observed | Self-reported only | Self-reported only | Drawn from real inspections |
| Evidence behind each signal | It is the filing | Filings, plus broker reports and self-entered data | A federal filing, every time |
| Signup required to look | No | Contract and onboarding | No |
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The same fleetfax record, docked in a side panel beside DAT, Truckstop, or wherever you work.
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 15 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. fleetfax keeps its own copy and builds every report from it.
No, deliberately. fleetfax is descriptive: it reports what the record shows and puts the evidence in front of you. No “safe to book,” no composite score. The booking 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, which is meaningful but bounded. The record can’t see yesterday’s hiring decision or fraud that hasn’t 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, and the peer group is different for each measure: carriers with similar inspection activity for the inspection BASICs, similar segment and activity for unsafe driving, and for crash rate every carrier with enough recorded crashes and miles to rate, measured per million miles. Every number is labeled as our estimate, never as an official score.
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