Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Registered motor carriers — license

The Company Census File is the register the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration keeps of every active interstate and intrastate-for-hire motor carrier, sold here as data under a written license: the whole set of records for a scope, delivered as files and through an interface, refreshed for the term, with the right to use it inside the licensee's own work.

What you get

• Each carrier's operating authority, cargo class, fleet size and driver count
• The county each carrier is based in, and the safety rating on its record
• Inspection and crash record for each carrier the register lists
• Delivered as files and through an interface, refreshed for the license term
• The register's own grouping by state, county or cargo class, kept intact
• A written license naming what the licensee may do with the records

Who buys it

Freight and passenger carrier analysts, transportation economists, insurance and risk researchers, state transportation and safety offices, university transportation centers, trade associations, and newsrooms covering the trucking and bus industries.

Questions

What arrives, and how often?

The register arrives as files and through an interface, and it is refreshed for the length of the license term. Each refresh carries the records for the scope you licensed: the carrier, its authority, its cargo class, its fleet and drivers, its county, and its safety, inspection and crash record.

What may a licensee do with the records?

The license states the rights in writing. Internal-use scopes cover use inside the licensee's own work, including analysis, products, reports and filings. The redistribution scope adds the right to pass the records to others in the form the license allows.

Which scope should an institution buy?

It depends on what the work covers and who sees it. One state suits work confined to a single state. The national scope suits work that spans the network. The redistribution scope suits institutions that publish or supply the records to their own readers and clients.

What about a piece of research rather than the whole register?

A research engagement is quoted per piece of work. The scope of study is agreed in writing, and the fee follows what the work covers, whether that is one cargo class, a set of counties, or the national register itself.