Your first carrier search
Search is at inveo.io/search and does not require an account. One box handles three kinds of query, and it decides which one you meant from what you type.
By USDOT number
Type the digits on their own: 80806. Nothing else, no “USDOT” prefix. If no carrier has that USDOT number, the same digits are then tried as a docket number, so an MC number typed without its prefix still finds the company.
By docket number
MC123456 or mc-123456. Case and the hyphen do not matter.
By name
Name search matches from the start of the legal name, not anywhere inside it. This is the one thing worth knowing before you decide the results are wrong.
Searching trucking returns companies whose name begins with that word, which is almost none of them. Searching swift finds Swift Transportation. If you know the company starts with a person’s name or an initialism, type that.
Two more things about names. The name we match on is the legal name on the FMCSA filing, which is often not the name painted on the trailer. And name results are capped at 50, sorted so companies with active operating authority come first, so a very common prefix is better narrowed than scrolled.
Reading the profile
A company profile shows its operating authority by type, insurance filings on record, safety and inspection history, registered address, and the record of changes we have observed since we started watching.
Two fields are worth reading together rather than separately. Authority status is whether FMCSA currently permits them to operate. Insurance on file is whether an insurer has filed the coverage that authority depends on. Authority that is active while insurance has lapsed is the single most useful thing this data tells you, and it is the reason the profile puts them next to each other.
Every fact carries where it came from and when we retrieved it. Filings lag reality, so a date matters as much as a value.
What to do next
Watching a company is the point of an account. The current state of a record is available to anyone; being told the week it changes is not something you can get by looking. Watch the companies you actually haul with or tender to, not a broad list, because the alerts are only useful while you still read them.
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