One published contact. Every spammer's target.
The day your USDOT goes active, your phone number and email become public FMCSA/DOT records. Anyone can pull them — and lead-list resellers do, within hours.
Then it starts: spam calls, robocalls, insurance sales pitches, factoring pitches, and fake “load” leads. It hits your personal cell and your inbox, all day, every day, and blocking each one is a losing game — the number is on MCS-150, SAFER, BOC-3, your COI, and UCR.
Shield Carriers gives you a protected public phone number and email to publish instead. Real brokers, shippers, regulators, inspectors, and your trusted contacts still get through. Spam and junk outreach are filtered before they ever reach you.
One USDOT. One shield. Covers the whole operation.
A fleet of 10 trucks under one USDOT still has one phone and one email on the public listing — that’s the spam pipeline into your dispatch and admin desk. Shield filters that channel so your team hears real brokers and shippers, not robocalls.
Your drivers keep their personal cells for personal calls. Your dispatcher and owner lines stay private for the people you trust. The shield catches what the scrapers pulled off FMCSA — one Full Shield covers your whole operation.
Protecting dispatch: your options
| Shield Carriers | Dispatcher's cell | Google Voice / 2nd line | Spam blocker app | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safe to publish on your DOT record | ||||
| Filters spam off the dispatch channel | Partial | |||
| Real brokers & shippers always get through | Risky | |||
| Full log of who called, texted & emailed | Partial | |||
| 911 / DOT / FMCSA can never be blocked | ||||
| One setup covers the whole fleet |
