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When the record goes quietFMCSA's new public feeds can drop insured carriers with no marker. About 1 in 18 reading “lapsed” were insured all along when checked live.6 min read Reopened, not reformedCarriers shut down for cause quietly reopen under a new USDOT number, and crash at 3.6× the rate.4 min read The new-authority washoutAbout one in seven new authorities is revoked within 18 months, almost always for a missed federal audit.5 min read
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The carrier report

Everything on a carrier, in one report

Authority, insurance, inspections, safety history and ownership, pulled together and stated as facts.

The fleetfax carrier report header for a large national carrier: 2 cautions found, active authority held 49 years, $5M liability insurance in force, rated Satisfactory, 1,651 power units observed in inspections, fewer crashes than 85% of peers.

A large national carrier. The verdict comes first, then the record behind it: authority, insurance on file, safety against peers, and the fleet actually observed on the road. Every field is from the federal record, and the same report is free on any carrier.

Risk flags

Fraud patterns caught in every report

Freight fraud usually leaves a paper trail in the federal record. fleetfax looks for the patterns brokers get burned by and surfaces them as cautions, so you decide with them in view. Examples of what it watches for:

Reincarnation pattern Caution
A prior authority at the same address and ownership closed with unresolved issues shortly before this one opened. Often a way to shed a bad record.
MC-for-rent pattern Caution
Authority holder and the operator on inspections do not line up, a signal the number may be rented out to unrelated trucks.
Recent authority churn Caution
Authority granted, revoked and reinstated in a short window, a record that tends to move around more than a settled carrier's.
The fraud playbook

How stolen loads actually start

Most cargo theft now starts at a desk, not a truck stop. The thief books the load as somebody else, or as a company built to be burned, and the freight is gone before anyone knows to look. Each play leaves marks in the federal record. Here is where the report puts them in front of you.

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Carrier impersonation
A fraudster picks a real carrier with a clean record and books as them, from a lookalike email domain, with a phone number that rings at the thief's desk. The paperwork gets signed under the stolen name and the load disappears.
In the reportThe carrier's contact details as filed on the federal record, so your callback goes to the number the carrier filed, not the number in the email.
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Chameleon reopenings
A carrier shut down for cause reopens under a new USDOT number with a spotless face, sometimes at the same address, under the same people. Weeks of clean, small loads build trust before the high-value freight gets diverted.
In the reportThe reincarnation caution connects the new number to the closed one. We published the data on how often the official disclosure field misses these.
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The holiday bust-out
Theft rings time the play for long weekends: loads staged early, skeleton crews at the dock, and days before a receiver notices anything is missing. A carrier that looked fine at onboarding months ago is exactly what the play counts on.
In the reportThe record as it stands the day you pull it, with new and churning authority flagged. The report is free, so checking again at booking costs nothing.
Peer safety percentiles

Measured against carriers its own size

A five-truck carrier and a five-hundred-truck carrier are not the same risk at the same inspection count. fleetfax compares each carrier only to peers of similar size.

The fleetfax report view of FMCSA BASIC percentiles for a carrier: driver fitness, hours of service, unsafe driving and vehicle maintenance all above the peer alert threshold with violation counts, controlled substances within range.

Every carrier gets a percentile. Each carrier is grouped with others of similar fleet size, and violations per inspection are counted from the public record to place it as a percentile. A higher percentile means more violations than similar-size peers, not a pass or fail. FMCSA keeps its own percentiles hidden, so these are fleetfax peer estimates built from the same inspection data, not official CSA scores.

Authority & insurance history

Every filing and lapse, back years

Not just today's snapshot. The full run of authority events and insurance filings, side by side, so a gap that closed two years ago still shows.

The fleetfax authority and insurance history view for a carrier: authority granted December 2025 and revoked March 2026, alongside an insurance ledger showing a $750K liability policy cancelled with no replacement on file.

Granted in December, revoked by March. An authority barely three months old, next to the insurance ledger that explains it: a $750K policy cancelled with no replacement on file. A packet from onboarding would still say this carrier was covered; the report shows the record as it stands today.

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Every night, fleetfax checks ambiguous insurance records against FMCSA's Motus system, the registration system of record. When the public feeds lag, fleetfax corrects the insurance record to match what Motus shows.

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The trucks actually seen on the road

fleetfax reads the VINs from roadside inspections and decodes them, then sets that against what the carrier reports. Where the two differ is worth a question before you tender.

The fleetfax fleet check flagged 'Running more than registered': the carrier reports 2 power units while 469 distinct power units were seen in inspections over 24 months, and 873 units including trailers were first seen in the last 6 months.

2 reported, 469 observed. This carrier reports 2 power units to FMCSA; inspections saw 469 distinct trucks in 24 months, so the report flags it. Reported and observed are two separate facts, and not every truck gets inspected, so a gap is a reason to ask before you tender, not proof of anything by itself.

The fleetfax Fleet tab observed-equipment table: each row is one truck or trailer seen in a roadside inspection, with its VIN and the make, model, year, and class decoded from it, plus when it was last seen.

Decoded from roadside-inspection VINs. Each row is one truck or trailer seen in an inspection, with the VIN it was read from and the make, year, and class decoded from it. The carrier and VINs shown are fictional.

Operating map

Where a carrier actually runs

Built from where the carrier's trucks have been inspected over time, not from a self-reported service area. A read on the lanes a carrier really works.

The fleetfax operating map: 367 counties and 623 mapped inspections for one carrier, with interstate corridor overlays, recency-graded inspection dots, and an activity-over-time histogram.

368 counties, 623 inspections. The map for one carrier, with corridor overlays and a recency gradient. Built from FMCSA roadside inspections, which show where the trucks actually get stopped, not the lanes a carrier says it prefers.

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