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Enter the USDOT
Paste any active USDOT number (e.g. 264184 — Schneider National).
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Safety rating, BASIC scores,
and crash history — in one card.
Paste a USDOT. Get the federal safety rating, all five public BASIC measures with alert flags, inspection + out-of-service totals, and crash counts (last 24 months and lifetime) with the 10 most recent crashes — pulled live from FMCSA.
How it worksThree datasets, one card.
Three datasets, one card.
About five seconds.
FMCSA splits safety data across three files. We fan out the three you actually need for underwriting, reconcile them on the DOT, and surface the BASIC alert flags so an underwriter can scan a carrier in seconds instead of clicking through SAFER and SMS by hand.
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We pull the safety file
We hit three FMCSA datasets in parallel — Census (safety rating + last review), SMS (BASIC scores), and the Crash File — and reconcile them on the DOT.
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See the safety story
Federal safety rating, all 5 public BASIC scores with alert flags, inspection + OOS totals, and crash counts (last 24 months + lifetime) plus the 10 most recent crashes.
FAQ
The honest answers.
Where does the FMCSA DOT safety profile data come from?
The Native Base free DOT safety profile tool pulls live from three FMCSA datasets on data.transportation.gov: the carrier Census (Socrata az4n-8mr2) for safety rating and last compliance review, the SMS Property results (4y6x-dmck) for BASIC scores and inspection / out-of-service totals, and the Crash File (aayw-vxb3) for crash history with fatalities, injuries, tow-away, and federal-reportable flags. The data is never stored or modified — every lookup returns the current federal record for that USDOT number.
What are FMCSA BASIC scores and which ones does the safety profile tool show?
BASIC stands for Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories — FMCSA's 7-category framework for measuring carrier safety performance under the Safety Measurement System (SMS). Five categories are publicly available and surfaced by the Native Base DOT safety profile tool: Unsafe Driving, Hours of Service Compliance, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances / Alcohol, and Vehicle Maintenance. Two additional categories — Hazardous Materials Compliance and Crash Indicator — are not published publicly under current FAST Act rules and therefore are not included. Each category shows the raw measure value, whether the carrier is currently in alert status (above the intervention threshold), and the count of inspections with at least one violation in that category.
What does a “Conditional” or “Unsatisfactory” FMCSA safety rating mean?
FMCSA assigns three safety rating levels following a compliance review: Satisfactory (carrier meets safety fitness standards), Conditional (carrier did not meet one or more safety fitness standards but is still allowed to operate), and Unsatisfactory (carrier is prohibited from operating in interstate commerce — typically results in revoked operating authority). Many carriers are listed as “Not Rated” because FMCSA has not yet conducted a compliance review on them. The Native Base DOT safety profile tool surfaces the rating, the rating date, and the type and date of the last compliance review on file.
How many DOT safety profile lookups does the Native Base free tool allow?
The Native Base free DOT safety profile tool allows 5 lookups per IP address per minute. There is no daily cap and no signup is required. Insurance agencies and brokers that need higher-volume programmatic access can request the same federal safety data via API by contacting Native Base.
Underwriting a trucking risk?
One safety glance is informational.
A pre-filled ACORD 163 is a workflow.
FMCSA Safety + SMS + Crash data feeds the entire Safety section of ACORD 163 plus the DOT-recordable-accidents fields on ACORD 137 and 125. If your team is keying this in by hand, we can wire it into your AMS and pre-fill the packet before the producer opens it.
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