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 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 full report on any carrier, with no account and no card.
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 the day they land.
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.
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 own policy says, and what you actually ran with them. A free account keeps up to 15.
3 of 15 book slots used
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. A carrier is usually re-checked once, the day it is onboarded, and never again.
Your book turns that one-time check into a standing one. Every carrier in it is re-read against the federal record once a day, with what changed waiting for you each time you come back.
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, refreshed daily
Facts, not opinions
Nothing on fleetfax is a broker’s complaint, an anonymous review, or a score you take on faith. 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.
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: 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 were observed | 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 |
| Signup required to look | No | Contract and onboarding | No |
In the browser
The same fleetfax record, docked in a side panel beside DAT, Truckstop, or wherever you work.
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 (50 through Sept 9, 2026, a launch offer), 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.
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