FMCSA Carrier Safety

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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration carrier safety ratings, BASIC scores, crash history, and roadside inspections.

What is FMCSA Carrier Safety?

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration public safety data for vetting third-party trucking carriers — frac sand, produced-water, crude, chemical, and rig-move haulers. Two upstreams: the QCMobile API (carrier snapshot with crash totals and out-of-service rates vs national averages, SMS BASIC safety scores by category, operating authority and insurance on file, active out-of-service orders, MC/docket lookup, and fuzzy name search) and the DOT-wide Socrata datasets on data.transportation.gov (all-time crash records with date, state, county, fatalities, injuries, and hazmat placard; rolling ~3-year roadside inspection records with violation and out-of-service counts). Resolve a carrier by name to its DOT number, then pull its crash and inspection history. Complements Samsara and Geotab (operator-owned fleet telematics) — FMCSA is the regulator-side public record for carriers you don't own. Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Available Tools

getCarrierByDOT
Carrier safety snapshot by USDOT number: operating status, crash totals, driver/hazmat out-of-service rates vs national average, insurance.
searchCarriersByName
Find carriers by name (subsidiaries file under different DOT numbers). Returns up to 20 matches with DOT numbers and key safety stats.
getCarrierByDocket
Look up a carrier by MC/docket number.
getCarrierBasics
SMS BASIC safety scores by category (Unsafe Driving, HOS, Vehicle Maintenance, etc.). Run date surfaced — scores can be stale.
getCarrierAuthority
Operating authority status (common/contract/broker) and insurance on file.
getCarrierOOS
Current out-of-service orders against the carrier.
getCrashes
Crash records (all-time). Filter by date range and report state; returns fatalities, injuries, tow-away, hazmat placard.
getInspections
Roadside inspections (rolling ~3-year window). Filter by date and state; returns violation and out-of-service counts.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Open /mcp and enable FMCSA Carrier Safety with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchCarriersByName to resolve a hauler's DOT number, then pull getCarrierByDOT for the safety snapshot and getCrashes for crash history.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect FMCSA Carrier Safety to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect FMCSA Carrier Safety to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting FMCSA Carrier Safety to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"FMCSA Carrier Safety-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}