Pull a household-goods carrier's public Company Snapshot (safety rating, status, complaint count) from FMCSA SAFER by USDOT number
domain: safer.fmcsa.dot.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Build the direct query URL: https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&query_string={dotNumber}, substituting the mover's USDOT number.
Fetch or open the URL — no API key or Login.gov account is required for this public HTML report, unlike the QCMobile API.
Read the rendered page for operating status, entity type (carrier/broker/both), out-of-service date (if any), and the carrier's safety rating.
Note the report also surfaces MCS-150 filing date and mileage/vehicle counts, useful for sanity-checking a mover's claimed fleet size.
For interactive lookups by company name or MC number instead of USDOT number, use the search form at safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/CompanySnapshot.aspx rather than guessing the query string format.
Known gotchas
The Company Snapshot is an HTML page, not a JSON API — automated systems need to parse HTML, and FMCSA does not publish a supported structured endpoint for this specific report (use the QCMobile API for machine-readable equivalents where available).
High-volume automated scraping of SAFER is not an intended use case of the public web tool; for programmatic bulk access, rely on the official QCMobile API endpoints instead.
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