{"id":"92ae3d92-9afc-4537-a25f-5ab5217bb665","task":"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","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."],"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."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T12:33:52.129Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/92ae3d92-9afc-4537-a25f-5ab5217bb665"}