FMCSA freight records in Columbus, Ohio

What stands out in the Columbus records

1. Refrigerated food (360 records, 13.0%), building materials (330, 11.9%) and fresh produce (323, 11.7%) are close together. These overlapping declarations do not split Columbus into three exclusive carrier markets.
2. Intermodal containers appears on 135 records (4.9%), versus 241 for household goods. The counts cover the declared physical city only; they cannot describe all firms serving Columbus from surrounding municipalities.
3. BONDED CHEMICALS INC and MAGNETIC SPRINGS WATER COMPANY INC both have mixed Private Property / Authorized For Hire classifications in the sample. A name suggesting a commodity is still not evidence of insurance or permission for a specific load.

Additional cargo declarations

All 2,772 selected records already declare General Freight. The six categories below show what else they declare; a record can appear in more than one bar. These are not shipment volumes or exclusive market shares.

An unmarked category is not a verified inability to carry that cargo. Confirm equipment, permissions and the proposed load independently.

Five records to practice checking identity

The five lowest USDOT numbers in this exact selection, in ascending order. This deterministic sample is not representative of fleet size, safety, service quality or availability. The counts below are company declarations, not vehicles or drivers located in Columbus.

MCS-150 dates in this sample: 2025-07-23 to 2026-05-07. On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways; keyboard users can focus it and use the arrow keys.

Move from a city match to a specific USDOT

1. Match the legal name and declared physical address to the company you are checking. A similar name in a neighboring city is a separate identity question.
2. Use the USDOT number to open the official record. Check current authority, insurance evidence and the proposed service separately.
3. Keep the source and filing dates with your notes. A dataset refresh is not a new MCS-150 filing or a live dispatch check.

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Source, geography and selection

The FMCSA Company Census File is the source of the counts, declarations and sample. The field dictionary (Rev. 8, January 23, 2026) defines physical city/state, record status, operation and cargo fields. Physical city is the principal address declared to FMCSA; it is not a boundary test, depot inventory, metropolitan-area search or area served.

We select records with active record status (A), an entity type containing Carrier (C), country US, interstate carrier operation (A), classification including Authorized For Hire and General Freight marked X, then match physical state OH and physical city COLUMBUS exactly after uppercasing. Other classifications and cargo declarations may coexist.

Counts were checked against distinct USDOT numbers. Cargo categories share the same filter and denominator. The five examples use ascending numeric USDOT, not a commercial ranking. Missing values stay “Not reported”; reported zero remains zero.

• Reproduce city counts in the official dataset
• Reproduce cargo-category groups
• Reproduce the five Columbus sample records
• Dataset metadata and dictionary attachments

The links query the live source, so later results can differ from this dated page. This page does not certify current authority, insurance, coverage, safety or capacity.