How to find newly registered US motor carriers from FMCSA data
Short answer
FMCSA assigns each motor carrier a USDOT number and publishes census data. New registrations show which carriers just started; the Haulroll dataset lists them with daily counts. Before booking a new carrier, check its authority and safety record by DOT number.
- pip install datasets
- Load "new_carriers" for the latest registrations.
- Filter by state or operation type.
- Look up each DOT number for authority and safety before you book.
Copy-paste code
Data: CyberMax dataset on Hugging Face; load it with the datasets library (pip install datasets)
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("CyberMax-tools/haulroll-new-motor-carriers", "new_carriers", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()
print(len(df), "rows")
print(df.head())
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