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FCRA Notice: HaulVet is not a consumer reporting agency

Plain words where the law allows. Where a section must be formal it says so. Square brackets mark a value filled in per document, and a dated note where a clause has been corrected.

Updated 2026-11-13·TermsPrivacyData sources

1The short version

HaulVet is not a consumer reporting agency. Nothing on this site is a consumer report. Do not use anything from HaulVet for any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

2What HaulVet is

HaulVet shows public registration records that the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) publishes about motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders, each identified by a USDOT number. It shows those records with their dates. It shows three checks, Authority, Insurance and Orders, each read from those records by fixed written rules. And it shows comparisons across those records (for example, that a phone number appears on more than one active USDOT record). It lets a business keep a dated record of what it looked at and what it decided.

HaulVet reports on business entities. It is sold to businesses for a commercial purpose: deciding whether to do business with another business. HaulVet is not a driver-history product. For a driver's record, use FMCSA's Pre-Employment Screening Program.

3What HaulVet is not

  • HaulVet is not a "consumer reporting agency" as defined in the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681a(f).
  • HaulVet's pages, reports, Snapshots, indicators and alerts are not "consumer reports" as defined in 15 U.S.C. 1681a(d).
  • HaulVet does not assemble or evaluate information on any individual's credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics or mode of living.
  • HaulVet does not give opinions about any individual, including a driver or an owner-operator as a person.
  • HaulVet does not verify identity. It shows what was filed with FMCSA and what FMCSA published.

4What you must not do

You must not use HaulVet, or any information obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding whether an individual is eligible for:

  1. employment, promotion, reassignment or retention as an employee, independent contractor or driver, including leasing an owner-operator or hiring a driver onto your authority;
  2. credit or insurance for personal, family or household purposes;
  3. housing or a residential lease;
  4. a government licence or benefit; or
  5. any other purpose for which a consumer report may be used under 15 U.S.C. 1681b.

This applies even where a carrier is a one-person business and the record names its owner. The record is about the business. If you need information about an individual for one of the purposes above, you must obtain a consumer report from a consumer reporting agency and follow the FCRA, including its notice and adverse-action rules. HaulVet cannot help you with that.

5Why this matters

Using non-FCRA data for an FCRA-regulated purpose can expose you to liability under federal and state law. Our Terms of Service prohibit it, and you agree to indemnify us if you do it.

6Footer text for every Snapshot PDF, report and export

Print the following, unedited, on every Snapshot PDF, every exported report and every CSV export. The bracketed fields are filled in by the software from the document it is printing; they are not blanks anyone fills in by hand.

This document shows FMCSA public records as published on [PUBLICATION DATE] and comparisons HaulVet computed from those records. It reports on a business entity (USDOT [NUMBER]), not on any individual. HaulVet is not a consumer reporting agency and this is not a consumer report. It must not be used for any purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, including employment, credit, insurance or housing decisions about an individual. It is not a guarantee of any carrier's safety, identity or performance, and it does not certify anything. Data is not real time. Snapshot [ID], hash [SHA-256], created [TIMESTAMP UTC]. Full terms: haulvet.com/terms.

Documents that cover more than one carrier. A Snapshot is one carrier read from one publication, so it fills every bracket above. The monitored-list CSV and the owner's JSON export cover a whole list, often spanning several publications, and have no snapshot id or hash of their own. Two brackets therefore take the form the document can truthfully fill, and nothing else changes:

  • [PUBLICATION DATE] — the publication, where the document names one; otherwise the sentence reads "as published by FMCSA on the dates each entry in it names". The day someone clicked Export is not a publication date and is never printed as one.
  • a business entity (USDOT [NUMBER]) — becomes "business entities (the USDOT numbers listed in this document)".
  • Snapshot [ID], hash [SHA-256], created [TIMESTAMP UTC]. — becomes "Exported [TIMESTAMP UTC]."

Every other word is byte-identical on all three paths, which is what "unedited" means here. One function prints it (fcraLong, lib/fmcsa/sentences.ts) so the three documents cannot drift apart.

One-line short form, for space-limited footers and for the bottom of every carrier page:

Not a consumer report. HaulVet is not a consumer reporting agency; do not use for employment, credit, insurance or housing decisions about an individual. FMCSA public records as of [DATE], not real time.

7Questions

support@haulvet.com. Syed Media, LLC d/b/a HaulVet, 30 N Gould St, #47039, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA.