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title: "SAFER"
url: https://carrierkyc.com/glossary/safer
description: "SAFER is FMCSA's public Safety and Fitness Electronic Records website, whose Company Snapshot shows a carrier's identification, size, safety rating, inspections and crashes."
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# SAFER

**Definition:** SAFER is FMCSA's public Safety and Fitness Electronic Records website, whose Company Snapshot shows a carrier's identification, size, safety rating, inspections and crashes.

Also called: SAFER Company Snapshot, Safety and Fitness Electronic Records. Category: FMCSA & freight.

The Company Snapshot is a free, one-at-a-time record of a company's identification, size, commodities and safety record, including any safety rating, a roadside out-of-service inspection summary and crash information. You can search it by USDOT number, MC or MX number, or company name.

For a factor, SAFER is the starting point, not the verification. It shows what a carrier's record says today. It does not show when the phone, email, address or officers changed, who is applying in the carrier's name, who owns the bank account, or which other carriers share its contacts, and those are the gaps fraud uses.

> **Red flag: Red flags** A SAFER screenshot sent by the applicant instead of a lookup you ran yourself. An operating status of inactive or not authorized. A recent MCS-150 date with new contact details. A power unit count that doesn't fit the volume the client describes.

Pull the record yourself, add change history and related-entity checks with the [carrier check](https://carrierkyc.com/tools/carrier-check), then work through [is this carrier legit](https://carrierkyc.com/guides/is-this-carrier-legit).

## Related

- [CSA BASICs](https://carrierkyc.com/glossary/csa-basics)
- [USDOT number](https://carrierkyc.com/glossary/usdot-number)
- [L&I (Licensing and Insurance)](https://carrierkyc.com/glossary/l-and-i)
- [How to tell if a carrier is legit (with a live FMCSA check)](https://carrierkyc.com/guides/is-this-carrier-legit)
- [Carrier risk check](https://carrierkyc.com/tools/carrier-check)

## Sources

- [FMCSA SAFER Company Snapshot](https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/CompanySnapshot.aspx) (FMCSA)
- [49 CFR 385.13: Unsatisfactory rated motor carriers](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/section-385.13) (eCFR)