A carrier's dated federal history

Out-of-service orders, authority revocations and insurance cancellations, with the date each one happened. Back to 1995. Free, no account.

Why this is the question worth asking

Whether a carrier is authorised right now is free to look up and takes one search on FMCSA's own SAFER site. What that does not tell you is whether this is the fourth time they have been put out of service, or whether their insurance has been cancelled eleven times by five different insurers.

That history is published. FMCSA has been recording out-of-service orders since January 1995 and insurance filings since the 1990s, and it puts all of it in open data files that need no key and no account. Measured across the out-of-service file: 43,593 carriers have two or more orders on record, 8,086 have three or more, and 640 have five or more.

Nothing here rates a carrier or predicts anything. An out-of-service order is a dated fact published by the agency that issued it, and a rescinded one is a dated fact too, which is why both appear.

The three files

Two limits, stated plainly

The revocation file has stopped moving. Its most recent order date is 31 December 2025, because the legacy licensing and insurance tables were frozen when Motus replaced them. Out-of-service orders are current to within a few days.

An absent record is not proof of a clean history. It means these three files hold nothing for that number. Small and newer carriers will often have no events at all, and that is the ordinary result rather than a finding.