Pull a carrier from FMCSA Motus,
the new USDOT Registration System.

FMCSA Motus is the new USDOT Registration System launched by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. As FMCSA describes it: “Moving forward, Motus will replace outdated systems and serve as your home base to easily apply for and manage registrations, view and update information, and control authorized access to your company account.” It is the federally-mandated replacement for the legacy Unified Registration System (URS), and the system new applicants and existing carriers are being moved to. The Native Base free Motus lookup pulls a carrier’s public Motus record directly from motus.dot.gov.

Motus is FMCSA’s modernized registration platform — built to strengthen oversight, reduce fraud, and let carriers manage their own account, addresses, officers, and authority filings online. Compared to the legacy SAFER company snapshot and the old L&I file, the public Motus record exposes additional fields that previously required logging in or were not surfaced at all: state of incorporation, year of incorporation, the next biennial MCS-150 due date, the full list of registered officers (not just the first two), verified versus unverified email and phone, and the per-operating-authority insurance filings as the carrier has filed them in the new system.

The Native Base free FMCSA Motus lookup calls the public carrier endpoint at motus.dot.gov — the same data the Motus customer dashboard renders. No data is stored or modified — every lookup returns the current federal record for that USDOT number, as published by FMCSA in the new registration system.

The legacy FMCSA systems (SAFER, the Carrier file in Licensing & Insurance, the old URS) were stitched together over decades from MCS-150 census submissions and BMC insurance filings. Motus replaces those with a single modern data model where the carrier maintains their own record — so it natively carries fields that did not exist in the old census (state of incorporation, biennial-due date, verified-contact flags, full officer list) and lets insurance filings live directly under each operating authority instead of in a separate flat file. The Native Base lookup surfaces those additional fields so insurance agents, brokers, and freight shippers can see them without logging into Motus.

The Motus customer dashboard (motus.dot.gov/customer/{dotNumber}/account) is gated by Login.gov and only the carrier or its authorized users can sign in to manage filings. The carrier record itself — legal name, addresses, officers, MCS-150 numbers, registration flags, operating authorities, and the insurance filings on file — is published by FMCSA as a public record. The Native Base free lookup only surfaces this public record. Carriers wanting to edit any of it should sign in to motus.dot.gov.

The Native Base free FMCSA Motus lookup allows 5 lookups per IP address per minute. There is no daily cap and no signup required. Insurance agencies, freight brokers, and compliance teams that need higher-volume programmatic access to Motus and the rest of the FMCSA stack can contact Native Base for API access.