FMCSA CSA Record Lookup by USDOT
Look up a carrier's public FMCSA record — inspections, violations, the measure for five categories and any investigation finding — straight from FMCSA's Open Data. No login.
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The reason this lookup exists.
I built it so a fleet manager or a broker could check one DOT without a login. Dockex itself runs the driver files, maintenance and filings that most of the violations on this record trace back to.
The Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is the FMCSA's way of telling carriers (and the broker, shipper, and insurance markets that watch them) which fleets are running clean and which are stacking up roadside violations. Every inspection, every violation, every crash rolls up monthly into the Safety Measurement System.
There are seven categories — FMCSA calls them BASICs. FMCSA publishes a measure for five of them: Unsafe Driving, Hours of Service, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances and Vehicle Maintenance. The FAST Act (2015) took freight carriers' percentiles and alerts off the public site until a study is done. Crash Indicator and HM aren't public for anyone. Bus and motorcoach carriers still have public percentiles and alerts.
FMCSA publishes this data once a month. Each release is a snapshot FMCSA took a few weeks before publishing it, and inspections reach FMCSA through the states first, so what you see here trails real life.
How to read the measures
Each measure is roughly the rate of violations per inspection, weighted by how serious and how recent they are. The exact formula is in FMCSA's SMS Methodology.
For freight carriers the measure is the public number — the percentile it maps to isn't published. An investigation finding means an investigator found something serious in the last year.
For the deeper Clearinghouse and drug-testing rules, see the FMCSA Clearinghouse compliance guide.
When the carrier has no inspections
FMCSA measures what roadside inspections in the last 2 years found, so a carrier with none has no measure. An investigation finding can still show, because it comes from an investigation, not an inspection. For bus and motorcoach carriers FMCSA also says why a category isn't ranked — "Less than 5 vehicle inspections", for example — and this tool shows that sentence the way FMCSA wrote it.
If a carrier has been running for years with no inspections at all, that's worth a second look. Either it rarely meets an inspector or the data isn't making it back to FMCSA. Both are worth a phone call, because FMCSA needs inspections to compute a measure.
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