You became a trucker to drive.Not to manage compliance deadlines.
Not to track paperwork, fight audits, and wonder if your authority is about to get pulled. MC Active monitors your USDOT record and tells you exactly what needs attention — and exactly where to fix it. No hardware.
Miss a medical card renewal? Up to $19,246 per violation. 49 CFR 386 App. B
Forget your MCS-150 update? Up to $10,000. FMCSA (Now filed through FMCSA Motus — portal.fmcsa.dot.gov)
Lapse on insurance? Your authority gets revoked. $13,676/day minimum. 49 CFR 386 App. B
Skip a Clearinghouse query? Average settlement: $10,278. FMCSA Enforcement Data
You're running a trucking company. You shouldn't have to be a compliance department too.
What FMCSA Gives You For Free
We'll tell you exactly what you can check at no cost — directly from the government — and what MC Active adds on top.
SAFER Web Lookup — Free
Any carrier's authority status, safety rating, and insurance on file. Manually, one at a time, when you think to check.
safer.fmcsa.dot.gov →CSA / SMS Scores — Free
Your BASIC scores across all 7 categories on the FMCSA Safety Measurement System. No alerts. No trends. No context.
ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS →MCS-150 Filing — Free
Biennial update through FMCSA Motus costs $0. Any service charging $99+ for this is overcharging you. We'll never do that.
FMCSA Motus Portal →What MC Active adds: The data is public. The monitoring is not. MC Active watches your FMCSA record continuously and alerts you before a deadline becomes a fine — so you're not manually checking every portal, every week, hoping nothing slipped through. View all monitoring options →
Your Fleet's Risk Exposure
See what a single compliance lapse could cost your operation.
Penalty amounts per 49 CFR Part 386, Appendix B (2025 amounts, effective Dec 30, 2024). Clearinghouse settlement averages per FMCSA Enforcement Database, Jan–Jun 2025. Actual penalties assessed may vary.
How MC Active Works
Run a Free Check
Enter your USDOT. We pull your public FMCSA record instantly — authority status, safety rating, insurance on file, CSA scores. Free. No account needed.
See What Needs Attention
Get a plain-English snapshot of your compliance status. Want ongoing coverage? Start monitoring. Need a deeper look at one issue? Order a specific scan report.
Stay Ahead — Automatically
Monitoring subscribers get daily record checks and alerts at 90, 60, 30, 14, 7, and 3 days before every deadline. Every alert includes the exact link to resolve it.
Lock In Your Founding Rate
Transparent pricing. No hardware required.
Free
- ✓ USDOT snapshot report
- ✓ Public record review
- ✓ One-time compliance check
- ✓ No credit card required
Essential Monitoring
- ✓Continuous CSA Score Monitoring
- Your CSA score is the number your insurer prices you on. Know what they see — before renewal does.
- ✓Expiration alerts (90/60/30/14/7 days)
- ✓ELD Revocation Alerts
- ✓Clearinghouse query tracking
- ✓Guided remediation in every alert
- ✓Monthly compliance attestation
MC Active monitors public FMCSA records — the same data brokers and inspectors already see. We don't report anything to FMCSA.
Proactive Operations
One missed deadline can cost more than a year of Proactive — think of it as the safety manager you don't have to hire.
- ✓ Everything in Essential Monitoring — plus your private records
- ✓ CDL & DOT medical cards — tracked for every driver
- ✓ Insurance, annual inspections & registrations — every truck
- ✓ IFTA, IRP, UCR, MCS-150, BOC-3 & Clearinghouse — all in one place
- ✓ Upload a document once — we read the dates off it for you
- ✓ One dashboard — green, yellow, red at a glance
- ✓ Staged reminders at 90/60/30/14/7 days — each with the exact link to fix it
* Founding rates are locked for the life of your subscription, starting at $150/month. Your exact rate is set by fleet size — we confirm it when you get started.
No hardware required on any plan. Essential is month-to-month — cancel anytime. Proactive Operations runs on a 12-month plan, billed monthly.
How fast is "fast"? Here's the clock — with receipts.
Everyone in compliance software says they're fast. Almost nobody shows you the stopwatch. Here's the real timeline — every number below links to where it comes from.
New operating authority through FMCSA's Unified Registration System takes 20–25 business days. That's the baseline every carrier already lives with.
FMCSA FAQ →The quickest routine compliance pull the industry advertises is about an hour: Truckstop's SaferWatch reports fulfilling 80% of certificate-of-insurance requests within one hour, during office hours. (Vendor-reported.)
Truckstop SaferWatch →Monitoring goes live usually within the hour, during business hours — and your account is armed the same business day. Backstop service commitment: one business day.
See monitoring →If we can't source a number, we don't print it. That's the whole rule.
We publish our verification accuracy. Out loud.
This industry runs on "99% accuracy" claims. We went looking for the source behind the most-cited ones — independently fact-checked, multiple reviewers per claim. Almost none could be traced to a verifiable source. So we don't borrow a number we can't stand behind. Instead, we measure ours — sampled continuously by our QA process — and publish what we actually find, never a figure we can't substantiate.
What it means, precisely: our verification-match rate is how often an independent check agrees that the data in your dashboard matches your document. It's a quality metric, not a compliance guarantee. We confirm your data matches your document — not that the document is valid, and not that you're compliant. That responsibility stays with you. But unlike everyone else, you'll be able to see the number.
You Already Have the Answer
Brokers want carriers who can speak to their compliance status immediately — not carriers who scramble for paperwork when a load is on the line. MC Active keeps your FMCSA data current so you're always ready.
- ❌ Insurance cert — faxed, blurry, 3 months old
- ❓ Medical card — "I'll email it tomorrow"
- ❌ Authority status — unknown, checking manually
- ❓ "Safety rating — Should be fine"
- ⏳ Response time: 2–3 business days of digging
- ✅ Insurance — current per FMCSA record, monitored daily
- ✅ Medical cards — all drivers tracked, no surprises
- ✅ Authority — active, continuously monitored
- ✅ Safety rating — satisfactory, CSA scores tracked
- ⚡ Response: you know your status before they ask
Before You Reach Out
Ready to stop guessing about your compliance?
Check your USDOT number now — it takes 10 seconds and it's free.
No account required. No credit card. · MC Active is a private company. Not affiliated with FMCSA or U.S. DOT.