About

USDOT411.COM is a powerful and affordable engine for lookup and monitoring of the US Department of Transportation numbers (USDOT numbers).

Our services simplify day to day business activities of Freight Brokers, Shippers, Carriers, Trucking Company owners, Dispatchers and Truck Drivers, significantly improving performance and efficiency. The following businesses might find our services beneficial:

  • FREIGHT BROKER - Check any carrier current authority status, active insurances, hazmat registration, how long carrier is in business, safety score and much more.
  • SHIPPER - Check carrier or freight broker current authority status and reviews.
  • CARRIER - Before booking the load you can check broker's current authority status and find out how long the freight broker is in business.
  • TRUCKING COMPANY OWNER - Monitor all freight brokers that your do business with in one place. If a broker gets negative or non-payment reviews, email alerts from our monitoring tool will save your time and money.
  • DISPATCHER - You are busy all day long, we know it, check any freight broker in just a few seconds.
  • TRUCK DRIVER - Looking for a new employer? Check other drivers' reviews for any company in US, Canada or Mexico. You can post your own opinion to help other drivers as well.

For your convenience we have three different types of accounts:

  • GUEST - No registration needed, easy search tool and limited data for each USDOT.
  • BASIC - Free registration, easy search tool, limit of 5 monitored companies, no alerting services, some data restrictions.
  • PREMIUM - Full access to all regularly updated data, advanced search engine, customized alerting, analytics and other services.

Premium features

  • GENERAL DATA - Our service aggregates FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) data sources under subscription. In addition to FMCSA data, we collect data from all available open sources, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
  • HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY PERMIT - Since January 1, 2005, intrastate, interstate, and foreign motor carriers transporting certain types and amounts of hazardous materials (HM) are required to hold a Federal Hazardous Materials Safety Permit (HMSP) issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
  • HAZARDOUS MATERIAL REGISTRATION - This program began in 1992 and is administered by the Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).
  • SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNER - We identify companies that are SmartWay Partners.
  • CARB TRU COMPLIANCE - We collect data to identify companies that are 100 % CARB TRU compliant based on information provided by the California Air Resources Board.
  • GOVERNMENT BUSINESS - We check if USDOT holding companies are authorized to do business with U.S. Government.
  • MONITORING - Unlimited USDOT's monitoring listings.
  • ALERTING - We'll send you an email alert when changes appear in USDOT company data.
  • ALERTING HISTORY - You can see all previous alerts in you account dashboard sorted by date for your convenience.
  • REVIEWS - We collect reviews for each USDOT company in our database. Rating score is calculated based on reviews from trusted accounts only. Account is trusted if it represents a USDOT holding company.
  • ADVANCED SEARCH - Powerful search engine.