CarrierDex — FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Records Lookup

Due diligence for the trucking industry

In American road freight, hiring the wrong carrier is expensive — insured loads, liability, deadlines. The FMCSA publishes safety records for every registered motor carrier, yet querying them through official channels is slow and scattered across systems.

CarrierDex is an own product that consolidates those records into one searchable directory: every company gets a profile with its DOT number, safety rating, inspections and crash history. Shippers and brokers vet fleets with it, drivers research prospective employers, and industry professionals reach official data without the friction.

Key capabilities

• Search by company name or DOT number across the full national carrier base.
• Per-company safety profiles: official rating, recorded inspections and crash history.
• Carrier Safety Check — one-step verification of any trucking company's record.
• State and city browsing across 53 states and territories and 33,779 cities, each with its own listings.
• Stats section giving the aggregated picture of the industry.
• Educational blog on road transport safety and regulation.

Scale and coverage

The homepage counter stands at 2,096,801 active carriers — likely the largest dataset in my whole product portfolio. Coverage is nationwide: 53 states and territories, 33,779 cities, with listings ranging from California's 313,192 carriers and Florida's 143,292 down to 772 in the District of Columbia. Data refreshes monthly from FMCSA records.

Try it at carrierdex.com.

Built to serve millions of pages

You do not serve two million profiles from a stock WordPress install. CarrierDex is a custom build: a Laravel + PHP backend over a MySQL database whose indexes are designed to resolve name, DOT, state and city lookups in milliseconds at multi-million-row scale.

Growth runs on programmatic SEO: every carrier, state and city page is an indexable URL wired into the rest through internal linking. The monthly ingestion pipeline reconciles new carriers, deregistrations and rating changes with zero downtime.