A carrier's dated federal history

Out-of-service orders, authority revocations and insurance filings, with the date each one was filed and which federal file it came from. Nothing here rates a carrier.

What this shows, and what it does not

Whether a carrier is authorised right now is free to look up and takes one search on FMCSA's own SAFER site. What SAFER does not put in front of you is the dated filing history behind that status. This page lists it, with each event's date, its stated reason where the source records one, and the dataset it came from, so you can read the record yourself.

It does not tell you what the record means. There is no score, no grade and no verdict here, and the number of events on a record is a count rather than a characterisation. Three things are worth knowing before you read one:

• Most out-of-service orders in this data are new-entrant audit failures. The file is FMCSA's New Entrant Safety Assurance Program, and about nine in ten orders carry a New Entrant Revoked reason, usually a safety audit the carrier failed or never answered inside its first 18 months. That is not a roadside action, and reading it as one would be wrong.
• A terminated insurance filing is not proof of a lapse in coverage. The archive records that a filing ended and records no reason why. In FMCSA's current system every forward-dated termination is a policy being replaced by another one, so a carrier changing insurer looks identical here to a carrier losing cover.
• An absent record is not proof of a clean history. It means these files hold nothing for that number. Smaller and newer carriers often have no events at all, which is the ordinary result rather than a finding.

The three event sources

The Covers column is measured rather than written by hand. Two of these three files stopped being updated when FMCSA moved registration to a new system in May 2026, and all of them still report a fresh last-updated timestamp every single day, because the publisher reloads each table in full whether or not the contents changed. So we count how many rows fall in each recent month and publish the last month that carries real volume. Every lookup also reads the live company census for the carrier's name and address, which is a fourth request.