FMCSA compliance block for your website
Enter your USDOT or MC number and get the lines your website should show, from your FMCSA record: your name, your numbers and, for movers, FMCSA's booklets. Each line is marked required, with its rule, or recommended. Copy it as text, HTML or structured data.
- Free, no sign-up
- For carriers, brokers and movers
- Every rule linked to its source
- Nothing stored
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Your FMCSA block
The rules
What FMCSA asks a website to show
Federal rules for carriers, brokers and movers, each linked to its text. Your state can add its own, movers especially.
| Kind of company | What the rules ask for | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Trucking companies (carriers) | No federal rule sets what a carrier's website shows. The marking rule covers your trucks: the name on your MCS-150 and "USDOT" before the number. Most carriers put the same on their site, with the MC number and a link to SAFER. | 49 CFR 390.21T(b) (trucks only) |
| Property brokers | Advertising, your website included, shows your broker status, and only in the name your registration is issued in. Your broker security is $75,000, as a BMC-84 bond or a BMC-85 trust fund. | 49 CFR 371.7(a); 49 CFR 371.7(b); 49 CFR 387.307 |
| Household goods brokers | Shown prominently on your homepage and in ads: your place of business; your USDOT and MC numbers; your status as a household goods broker, and that you don't transport the goods but arrange it with an FMCSA-authorized mover whose charges follow its published tariff; the tariff statement if you give estimates; only logos of movers you have agreements with. Plus a prominent link to "Ready to Move?". | 49 CFR 371.107; 49 CFR 371.111(e) |
| Interstate movers | Your name and "U.S. DOT No." with the number in every ad, your website included. A prominent link to "Ready to Move?", and "Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move" for every household with its estimate, as a copy or a link. | 49 CFR 375.207(b); 49 CFR 375.213(a), (e) |
| Movers inside one state | Your state's rules. California's: "CAL-T" and your permit number in every ad, and a prominent link to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services. How to find your state's. | Your state's household goods regulator |
How it works
What the lookup reads, and what it keeps
You pick your kind of company and enter one number. Our server looks it up in FMCSA's public data, the same registration and authority records SAFER shows, and your block is built in your browser from what comes back. The lookup stores nothing, and the number never goes in the page address or our analytics.
The block follows the authority that fits your kind of company: a carrier's, a broker's, or for movers, one that covers household goods. On an MC lookup it uses that MC number's own authority. If FMCSA lists something as inactive or pending, or can't confirm it, the page says so and leaves it out rather than guess.
It covers the federal rules and what a lookup can fill in. Your address, your bond and your state's rules are yours to add; the page lists the ones that apply.
It reads
- Your legal name and DBA
- Your USDOT registration status
- Each authority, by docket
- Whether an authority covers household goods
Questions
Compliance block questions
Does my website have to show my USDOT number?
It depends on what you do. An interstate mover writes "U.S. DOT No." and the number in every ad, website included (49 CFR 375.207(c)), and a household goods broker shows its USDOT and MC numbers on its homepage (49 CFR 371.107(b)). For a property broker the rule is broker status under your registered name (49 CFR 371.7(b)), and for a carrier no federal rule covers the website at all. Shippers and brokers still look for the number, which is why the block recommends it for everyone.
What does "required" mean here?
A line marked required comes from the federal rule cited next to it, which covers advertising or websites for your kind of company. A recommended line isn't in any rule, but shippers, carriers and households look for it. Neither means your site meets every rule: the block covers what FMCSA's public record can fill in.
Why is there no MC number in my block?
The block shows an MC number only when FMCSA lists that authority as active. A carrier that only hauls inside one state has no MC number to show, and a pending or inactive authority stays out until it's active. Your record card above the block shows what FMCSA has.
My company name looks different from my FMCSA record. Why?
FMCSA keeps names in capitals; the block writes them the way a business does. Use your legal name or your DBA exactly as your record spells it. If you trade under a different name, add it to your registration first.
Do you keep my USDOT or MC number?
No. The number goes to our server only to look it up in FMCSA's public data, and the lookup stores nothing. It never goes in the page address or in our analytics.
Is this legal advice?
No. It's general information from FMCSA's published rules and your public record. Rules change and states add their own, so check with FMCSA or a transportation attorney if you're unsure what applies to you.
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