Motor Carrier List — FMCSA carrier directory

A public, SEO-optimized directory of every FMCSA-registered trucking carrier, broker, and freight forwarder in the United States — built from the official FMCSA census (~2.1M records) and searchable by name, state, cargo, and operating status. Each carrier has a detail page with fleet size, contact info, cargo, authority status, ratings, and listing-claim tools. No login required.

Overview

A public, SEO-optimized directory of every FMCSA-registered trucking carrier, broker, and freight forwarder in the United States — built from the official FMCSA census (~2.1M records) and searchable by name, state, cargo, and operating status. Each carrier has a detail page with fleet size, contact info, cargo, authority status, ratings, and listing-claim tools. No login required.

How to get there

Public route›/motorcarrierlist

Key features

  • Search by company name, state, cargo type, and operating status
  • FMCSA-first search — queries the live census when a name isn't in our DB yet, then upserts it into the directory
  • State and cargo landing pages (/motorcarrierlist/state/TX, /cargo/reefer) for long-tail SEO
  • Browse by state — interactive US map with clickable states, paired with an A–Z state list grid
  • Detail pages with USDOT/MC, fleet size, contact, cargo, safety rating, and an embedded map
  • Carrier ratings & reviews with on-time, communication, equipment, and fraud flags
  • Listing claim flow — carriers verify ownership by email code and take over their page
  • Lead capture — visitors contact a carrier; leads route to the claimed carrier workspace
  • SEO: JSON-LD LocalBusiness/Organization + AggregateRating, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, and canonicals
  • Real-time carrier count shown in the directory header
  • Unrated carriers show a "Not yet rated" placeholder until their first approved review, when star ratings and rich search results appear

Step-by-step

  1. 1Open /motorcarrierlist (public, no login required).
  2. 2Search by company name, or filter by state, cargo, or operating status.
  3. 3Use the Browse by state map or the A–Z state list to jump to a state's carriers.
  4. 4Browse the ranked results and click any carrier to open its detail page.
  5. 5On the detail page, review fleet info, cargo, safety rating, the map, and reviews.
  6. 6Carriers can click "Claim this listing" and verify by email code to manage their page.
  7. 7Visitors can click "Contact" to send a lead to the claimed carrier.

Page preview

Motor Carrier List screen in TMSDASH — A public, SEO-optimized directory of every FMCSA-registered trucking carrier, broker, and

Representative screenshot of the Motor Carrier List page.

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