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What the public record shows

• SAFER: company snapshot and operating status. L&I: authority history, insurance filings and cancellations, by docket. SMS: inspection and crash measures, by USDOT.
• CarrierDaily's free lookup joins the three for one carrier and adds the shared-identifier counts and daily change comparison none of them publish.
• Paid vetting platforms add onboarding workflows, documents and identity checks; see the compare pages for sourced prices.

Today's numbers

Live from the public record (2026-10-25T17:58:34+00:00): 125,716 active authorities, 5,609 brokers of property, 6,312 authority grants in the last 30 days, 865 insurance cancellations and 2,003 revocations or suspensions in the last 30 days.

Sources

FMCSA Licensing & Insurance · SAFER · SMS · FMCSA insurance filing requirements · data.transportation.gov

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Data reflects official public records published by the U.S. Department of Transportation (FMCSA) as of Oct 25, 2026 11:58 MDT. CarrierDaily provides factual public-record change monitoring and is not a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA.