Half of freight theft happens behind spotless records. One read across 29 federal datasets catches what a lookup misses: fraud patterns, reincarnated authorities, safety percentiles estimated against peers. All of it, free.
Type the lane in plain English. fleetfax returns carriers with documented roadside activity on that exact route, ranked by the record, never by paid placement.
Reincarnated authorities, rented MC numbers, insurance lapses, safety against peers. The full report on any carrier, with no account and no card.
Revoked authority and cancelled insurance land overnight. Watch the carriers you count on and see it the day it shows up in the record.
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” is not a vetting decision. It is a coin flip.
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
29 federal datasets that normally live in separate systems, read together. One search, one report, everything official on one page, with the filing dates on all of it.
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 the federal system of record and corrects it. Read the research.
Derive
Public records in, carrier intelligence out.
94% of carriers have no federal safety rating
Unrated doesn’t mean unsafe. It means unchecked.
A fleetfax estimate, when the data 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.
Monitor & source
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. A carrier is usually re-checked once, the day it is onboarded, and never again.
Monitoring turns that one-time check into a standing one: a free account keeps a book of up to 15, re-read against the federal record once a day, with what changed waiting for you each time you come back.
Sourcing answers the other question, who else can cover this lane, from the same evidence: carriers ranked by what the federal record shows they actually run, never by who paid to appear.
Every carrier in your book, checked against the federal record once a day. When an insurance filing drops or an authority gets revoked, it is named in plain English in your alerts feed within a day.
More on monitoring →Ranked by observed lane history and safety against peers.
Ask for a lane the way you’d say it and get the carriers observed actually running it. No sponsored spots, no way to buy one.
More on sourcing →The federal record behind every report, dataset by dataset, refreshed daily
Facts, not opinions
Nothing on fleetfax is a broker’s complaint, an anonymous review, or a score you take on faith. Every flag is computed from the federal record, states what the data shows, and links to the filings behind it, with their dates. The call stays yours: write your own policy and carriers read against your rules, never a black-box grade. If you ever need to show your work, the evidence is already attached. It’s the promise in the name: the fax is for facts.
Deterministic, not generative
You still have to verify the carrier yourself, so the shortcut saved you nothing. fleetfax is built the other way around: flags, verdicts, and rankings are computed from federal filings by fixed rules. The same search returns the same answer, and the answer changes only when the record changes.
AI here is an input, not a judge. Type a search in plain English; the model reads your words, and every result comes from the record.
The difference outlives the workflow. When anyone asks what you checked and when, a probabilistic guess has no filing behind it. Every fleetfax signal does, dated and attached.
Operating authority revoked · effective 04/18/2026
FMCSA revocation ledger, dated row
Inactive operating authority blocks the verdict
Fixed rule. Same threshold for every carrier, every time.
Blocking issues found
The filings behind it, linked on the page with their dates
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. The defense the opinion points to is documented ordinary care: what you checked, and when. fleetfax puts the full record in front of you, evidence attached, so care is easy to take and easy to show.
Sources: NHTSA FARS 2023 · GAO-12-364 · TIA State of Fraud 2025
Until now the choice was a free lookup that restates filings, or a paid platform charging far more every month. fleetfax ends the tradeoff, so every load gets the full check, not just the ones that already smell wrong.
| Capability | The government lookup | Paid vetting platforms | fleetfax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | A monthly fee | Free, no account needed |
| The full federal record, unified | Fragments, one system at a time | Restated filings, plus alerts | One report |
| Derived intelligence: reincarnation, connections, fraud patterns | None | Partial, at the top tiers | On every carrier |
| Safety measured against peers | Hidden since 2015 | Rarely, and unlabeled | A fleetfax estimate, on every carrier |
| Where the trucks actually run | Self-reported only | Self-reported only | Drawn from real inspections |
| Evidence behind each signal | It is the filing | Often broker-reported hearsay | Every signal links to its filing |
| Proof of what you checked, and when | Screenshot it yourself | Paywalled | A permanent link to the dated report |
| API access | None | Sales-gated add-on | Free API, coming soon |
| Signup required to look | No | Contract and onboarding | No |
API access
Everything on fleetfax is built from one structured carrier record: the federal filings, cleaned and read together, with the derived signals on top. The API returns that record as JSON for the tools you build and the systems you already run. It has not launched yet; here is what it will do.
A REST endpoint will return the carrier profile your team sees on fleetfax, described by an OpenAPI 3.1 spec. Descriptive findings with provenance on every signal. Coming soon.
Read the developer docs →Every field is documented with the source behind it, and findings come from a closed, published set of codes. There is deliberately no composite score and no book/no-book field: your system applies your rules to the facts.
How the signals are computed →Bulk vetting, shared carrier books, and keyed API access for operations that live in their TMS. Rolling out now with early partners.
Talk to us →In the browser
The same fleetfax record, docked in a side panel beside DAT, Truckstop, or wherever you work.
For carriers
Every US carrier already has a fleetfax page, built from the federal record. Claim yours free: add your logo, lanes, and equipment, follow your record for changes, and request a correction when something is wrong. Anything you add is labeled as reported by you. The federal record stays untouched.
There is no catch. Each carrier report is free and complete: no trial, no card, and no signup required. A free fleetfax account adds carrier sourcing, a book of up to 15 carriers, and monitoring for up to three of them.
The public federal record: FMCSA’s published datasets covering registration, operating authority, insurance filings, roadside inspections, crashes, and safety ratings. fleetfax ingests them into its own backend and refreshes daily.
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, verdict, 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.
Soon. A REST endpoint will return the same carrier profile your team sees on fleetfax as JSON: descriptive findings with the source behind every signal, no composite score. It is not open yet, and higher-volume API access is rolling out with early partners; see the developer page or write to [email protected].
Takes ten seconds. Costs nothing.
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