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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

As the lead federal government agency responsible for regulating and providing safety oversight of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), FMCSA's mission is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Carriers API. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Safety, and Transportation.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 4 more developer resources.

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34.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 34.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Carriers API

The Carriers API from Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — 7 operation(s) for carriers.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration QCMobile API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration
name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
description: As the lead federal government agency responsible for regulating and providing safety oversight of commercial
  motor vehicles (CMVs), FMCSA's mission is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consumer
tags:
- Federal Government
- Safety
- Transportation
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration:federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration-carriers-api
  name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Carriers API
  description: The Carriers API from Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — 7 operation(s) for carriers.
  humanURL: https://mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov/QCDevsite/docs/apiAccess
  baseURL: https://mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov/qc/services
  tags:
  - Carriers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration-carriers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov/QCDevsite/docs/apiAccess
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/federal-motor-carrier-safety-administration-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fmcsa
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov/QCDevsite/docs/apiAccess
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com