About
About XDate Alert
XDate Alert is a focused tool for trucking insurance agents: every pending FMCSA insurance cancellation in your states, delivered by email each day, built directly on the live federal data.
How it is built
XDate Alert is an independent product. It exists because the public data behind trucking insurance leads is real but unforgiving to work with — especially after FMCSA retired its legacy Licensing & Insurance system and moved to the MOTUS platform in May 2026. The ingestion pipeline reads FMCSA’s public MOTUS datasets directly, every federal endpoint the product depends on is tested, and the guides on this site are written from that hands-on work rather than from press releases.
The editorial standard here is simple: every claim about filings, deadlines, and regulations is checked against primary sources — the Code of Federal Regulations and FMCSA’s own published data — and each guide lists those sources. Where the public data has traps (a frozen legacy feed that still looks fresh, undocumented schema changes), the guides say so plainly, because getting that wrong is exactly what costs an agent a lead.
What XDate Alert does
Under 49 CFR 387.313, an insurer cancelling a motor carrier’s required liability coverage must notify FMCSA at least 30 days in advance, and that notice is public the day it is filed. XDate Alert reads those filings from the live MOTUS datasets every day, filters them to your states, attaches carrier phone numbers from the federal census, and emails you the pending cancellations — with a freshness gate that refuses to send if the federal feed goes stale.
Since August 2026 it carries two more events from the same federal filings: carriers that have just applied for operating authority and have no insurance on file yet, and carriers suspended because their coverage was cancelled. Neither can legally run a load until somebody writes them.
New here? Start with what insurance X-dates are, see the live cancellation trends, or get the daily list for your state.
Contact & independence
XDate Alert is independent and is not affiliated with FMCSA, the U.S. Department of Transportation, or any insurer. It provides public federal data only — how you contact a carrier, and the legal compliance of that outreach, is yours to own (see our compliance page).