The short answer
Every daily new-authority feed starts from the same public FMCSA registration data. The services differ in which states they cover, how soon after FMCSA publishes a record you get it, which contact fields they keep, what they add on top, and what they charge. Pick by who you sell to, not by headline lead counts.
The free route
FMCSA publishes the underlying records free on data.transportation.gov. To turn them into daily leads you download the census and operating-authority datasets every day, compare each snapshot with the last, and keep the new registrations and grants; downloading FMCSA data walks through it. A paid feed sells that work done every morning.
The services, side by side
From each service’s own site, as of October 23, 2026:
| Service | What it delivers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| TruckerDB | 15,000+ DOT leads a month in daily drops at 8 a.m., with owner names, emails and phones | $49 a month |
| New Trucking Companies | New USDOT numbers, authority grants, insurance filings and suspension notices by state | From $39 a month for one state; 7-day free trial |
| Truckr | Trucking insurance leads for agents, with live insurance status | From $49 a month for one agent, with team plans above it; 3-day free trial |
| CarrierOk | Carrier risk scoring and monitoring, with daily new-authority sourcing | See its site |
| Trucking Lists (this site) | Every new USDOT registration and MC authority in every state and DC each morning, emailed as a CSV and in a dashboard, with owner name, email and phone where filed | $10 a week, $29 a month or $290 a year |
Choose by who you sell to
- Insurance agents want carriers that need coverage now: new authorities, insurance filings and cancellations. A feed with insurance status, or authority grants you can call on the day, fits best.
- Factoring companies and dispatchers want carriers about to haul: the date the authority was granted matters more than the registration date.
- ELD, fuel card and compliance vendors sell to every new operation, so new USDOT registrations, with or without authority, are the larger pool.
A new USDOT number and a new MC authority are different events, and many new registrants never take authority. Of the 10,205 carriers that registered a USDOT number in the 30 days before the current snapshot, 5.4% hold an MC docket so far. Our fresh leads label the two separately; FMCSA Motus: are MC numbers going away? explains where authority records come from now.
Before you call or email
Commercial email to businesses is still covered by the CAN-SPAM Act: the FTC says the law “makes no exception for business-to-business email.” Use accurate sender details and honest subject lines, say the message is an advertisement, include a valid physical postal address, and honor opt-out requests within 10 business days (FTC guide).
Calls and texts need more care, because many owner-operators list a personal mobile number. The FCC’s rules prohibit autodialed or prerecorded calls to mobile numbers without the called party’s prior express consent, and telephone solicitations to residential subscribers whose numbers are on the National Do Not Call Registry (47 CFR 64.1200). A public FMCSA record is not consent. This is general information, not legal advice; check the rules for your channel with counsel.
Try before you buy
Download the free sample from the fresh leads page and check the columns against your CRM, then compare the plans on the pricing page. The yearly plan adds the API.
Sources
- FMCSA Company Census File (data.transportation.gov)
- Motus Carrier dataset (data.transportation.gov)
- FTC, CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business
- 47 CFR 64.1200, telephone solicitation rules
Figures marked as current come from the FMCSA Company Census snapshot of November 7, 2026, as published on this site. How the data is built