What Does BrowserAct FMCSA Motor Carrier Leads Finder Do?
Find motor carrier leads in the public FMCSA Company Census File without writing code or logging into the source site. Choose your conditions and export matching USDOT records, company and officer names, self-reported contacts and fleet data for prospect research. Run the same template through the BrowserAct API.
Key Features of FMCSA Motor Carrier Leads Finder
Combine date, state, country, active-record status, carrier classification, fleet size, for-hire and contact-availability conditions. Every returned carrier row satisfies all enabled conditions. Missing source values remain empty.
What Data Can I Extract from FMCSA?
| Data | Fields |
|---|---|
| Company identity | USDOT, legal name, DBA, country, state and city |
| Contacts | Company officer, raw phone and cell phone, self-reported email, formatted phone |
| Fleet and classification | Fleet-size code and label, power units, total drivers, record status, carrier operation, entity and business classes |
| Dates and dockets | Raw ADD_DATE, readable record_date, MCS-150 date, three docket prefixes/numbers/status codes |
| Query summary | Applied filters, source timestamp, source-window count and matching count |
How to Use FMCSA Motor Carrier Leads Finder
Open the template Run Task page, choose your filters, then run and review the matching records. The visible defaults can be run immediately. Export the delivered CSV and open it in Excel when you need a workbook. The first row is a query summary, not a company.
Input Parameters
| Parameter | Default | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| lookback_days | 7 | Integer from 1 to 30. Includes the end date in the day count. |
| cutoff_date | AUTO | AUTO calculates the start from lookback_days. Or enter YYYY-MM-DD. |
| end_date | TODAY | TODAY uses the current US Central date. Or enter a non-future YYYY-MM-DD. |
| states | ALL | ALL keeps every state. Or enter comma-separated US state/DC/territory codes, such as TX,CA. |
| country | US | Choose US, CA, MX or ALL. ALL removes the country condition. |
| active_only | true | Keeps active MCMIS records. This does not verify MC operating authority. |
| carriers_only | true | Keeps records with the carrier C classification, including carriers with multiple entity types. |
| min_power_units | ANY | ANY removes the lower bound. Or enter a non-negative whole number, inclusive. |
| max_power_units | ANY | ANY removes the upper bound. Or enter a non-negative whole number, inclusive. |
| for_hire_only | false | Keeps exact AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE or EXEMPT FOR HIRE business classifications when enabled. |
| require_email | false | Requires a non-empty self-reported email. Does not verify deliverability. |
| require_phone | false | Requires a non-empty self-reported phone or cell phone. Does not verify reachability. |
Example Output
The table below shows one example structured carrier record. Empty values reflect the source. Summary-only columns are empty on carrier rows.
| Field | Result |
|---|---|
| record_type | carrier |
| source_status | |
| query_cutoff | |
| query_end_date | |
| source_updated_at | |
| result_total_records | |
| source_window_records | |
| truncated | |
| error_code | |
| error_message | |
| filter_scope | |
| applied_filters | |
| dot_number | 9859656 |
| legal_name | VALOR FREIGHT GROUP LLC |
| dba_name | |
| phy_country | US |
| phy_state | CA |
| phy_city | SACRAMENTO |
| company_officer_1 | BRIAN PICKETT |
| phone | 5108473362 |
| cell_phone | 5108473362 |
| email_address | ARNIE@VALORFREIGHTGROUP.COM |
| fleetsize | C |
| power_units | 5 |
| total_drivers | 5 |
| status_code | A |
| add_date | 20261006 |
| mcs150_date | |
| carrier_operation | C |
| carship | C |
| classdef | AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE |
| docket1prefix | |
| docket1 | |
| docket1_status_code | |
| docket2prefix | |
| docket2 | |
| docket2_status_code | |
| docket3prefix | |
| docket3 | |
| docket3_status_code | |
| record_date | 2026-10-06 |
| normalized_phone | (510) 847-3362 |
| fleet_size_label | 4-6 |
How Does it Work?
The template checks the official dataset update timestamp, reads the selected date window in pages, checks USDOT uniqueness, applies all chosen conditions and returns only matching records. A real empty result succeeds without widening the dates. Rate limits, stale metadata or incomplete reads fail clearly instead of producing a false empty list.
How to Build a New Scraper Bot with Agent Built
Describe the public records you need in Agent Built. Let BrowserAct build and test the Bot. Run the completed Bot with your chosen inputs and review the structured result.
Why Use FMCSA Motor Carrier Leads Finder?
Looking for a CarrierHunt alternative for exporting carrier prospects? Build a focused carrier list for a chosen territory and fleet segment using public FMCSA data. Keep the source values and query summary so the result can be reviewed before it is added to your research or CRM process. This on-demand template provides filtered exports; it does not include a hosted prospect database or CRM. Source updates can lag behind today. ADD_DATE can indicate record creation, reactivation or systematic updates, so it does not prove first registration.
Who Can Use FMCSA Motor Carrier Leads Finder?
Transportation service providers, dispatching teams, fleet software teams and researchers who need an exportable carrier list with explicit selection conditions.
How Many Results Can You Scrape?
Result volume depends on the selected window and conditions. The template pages through the window up to its 50-page safety boundary. It fails if it cannot complete the read and does not silently deliver a partial list.
Automation and Export
Run on demand and export CSV, JSON, XML or Markdown using the formats provided by BrowserAct. CSV can be opened in Excel. Use the API to connect structured results to n8n, Make, Zapier or MCP-based agent workflows as needed. Configure those downstream integrations separately; a daily monitoring setup is not required.
