About Closest Carrier

Load boards and carrier lookups show a carrier's domicile, which is the mailing address on its FMCSA record. Many carriers run terminals far from that address, so brokers pass on carriers that are actually close to the pickup. Closest Carrier lists where carriers' terminals actually are.

Where the data comes from

• Locations a carrier publishes on its own website. Each row links to the page it came from and shows the date it was last verified.
• Locations a carrier sends us itself. We confirm them with the carrier first, and the row says “provided by the carrier”.
• Every list is checked against an independent count (a visual count of the carrier's own page, and the site's map data where available). Results that don't reconcile are held for human review instead of being published.
• We never show FMCSA addresses, so owner-operators' home addresses are never exposed. We exclude small fleets and personal contacts, and list only business phone numbers and role mailboxes.
• Some carriers publish the town a yard is in but not the street. Those rows say so, and the map draws them as a ring on the town instead of a pin.
• Only carriers a broker can hire. A fleet that hauls only its owner's product, such as a fuel distributor's or a retailer's own trucks, isn't listed.
• The carrier list starts from the public FMCSA census.

How each list is collected and checked

• Programmatic. For most carriers a scraper reads the list from the carrier's website. We rerun it each time we refresh the carrier, so changes show up without anyone retyping them, and every row shows the date it was last checked.
• Agentic. An AI agent finds the carrier's locations page, writes the scraper, and counts the locations on a screenshot of the page. The list publishes only when the counts match.
• Human sourced. Some carrier sites block automated tools. We don't get around those blocks. A person visits the page in a normal browser and copies the list, and we date it and recheck it by hand every 90 days.

Each carrier page shows which of these steps produced its list.

How search works

Search one pickup at a time: a ZIP, a city, or a click on the map shows carriers with a terminal within 25 miles. To keep the data from being copied in bulk, there's a limit of 150 lookups a day per visitor.

We count searches by place and equipment type so we know where to add carriers. We don't record who searched. Terms and privacy.

Our crawler

It identifies itself as yardscout/0.1, honors robots.txt, waits between requests, and never logs in. Carriers can add their yards or correct or remove a listing at any time.