/fmcsa/carriers/search

POST /api/fmcsa/carriers/search

Price: 20 credits

Search FMCSA-registered motor carriers by name or USDOT number: USDOT number, legal and DBA name, physical and mailing address.

How to use it

Find a carrier's USDOT number from its name, then pass it to fmcsa/carriers or fmcsa/carriers/snapshots. A name matches legal and DBA names, including words inside the name; a multi-word query matches carriers with any of the words, those with all of them first.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string required — Carrier legal or DBA name, a word of it, or a USDOT number (examples: "swift", "2454645"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "FmcsaCarrierSearchItem")
• usdot string required
• url string required
• name string nullable
• dba_name string nullable
• usdot_suffix string nullable
• filer_number string nullable
• physical_address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "FmcsaAddress")
  • address_type string nullable
  • street string nullable
  • street2 string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip_code string nullable
  • zip_code_extension string nullable
  • county string nullable
  • colonia string nullable
  • country string nullable
• mailing_address object nullable
  • @type string (default: "FmcsaAddress")
  • address_type string nullable
  • street string nullable
  • street2 string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • state string nullable
  • zip_code string nullable
  • zip_code_extension string nullable
  • county string nullable
  • colonia string nullable
  • country string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.