fleetfax CLAUDE

Use fleetfax in Claude

Connect fleetfax Pro to Claude and ask about any US carrier right in your chat. fleetfax surfaces the facts from the federal record; you make the call.

The fleetfax connectors open soon. Neither the free nor the Pro address answers yet, so these steps will not complete today. They are published so the setup takes a few minutes on the day they do. The full carrier report on fleetfax.com is free to use right now.

Before you start

What you'll need

  • A Claude account on any plan (Free, Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise).
  • A fleetfax Pro plan, on the work email you want to use.
Free Claude allows one custom connector, which is fine for fleetfax. Setup takes about 5 minutes. You do it once.

Once connected

Once it's connected, Claude can pull the federal record on any carrier without you leaving the chat: vet a carrier by name or number, check your watched carriers just by asking, or line a few up side by side. You read the facts and decide.

Setup

Set it up

Do these in Claude, in order. Each step is one action.

  1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors.In the desktop and web apps this is under your profile or workspace menu.
  2. Click the plus (+) button, then choose Add custom connector.
  3. Paste this address into the URL box:https://api.fleetfax.com/mcp/pro
  4. Click Add.You can ignore “Advanced settings”. fleetfax needs no client ID or secret.
  5. A fleetfax sign-in screen opens in your browser. Type your work email and continue.
  6. Open the email from fleetfax and type the 6-digit code.The code arrives in under a minute and works once.
  7. Read what the assistant will be allowed to do, then click Allow.
  8. To use it in a chat, click the plus (+) in the message box, open Connectors, and switch fleetfax on.

That's it. Claude is connected to your fleetfax Pro account and ready to answer.

Under the hood

fleetfax uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting assistants to tools. Signing in with a code (not a password) is a standard secure connection (OAuth). You don't need to know any of this to use it.

Prompts

Try these first

Copy one of these into Claude to see what it can do. The numbers here are placeholders; swap in a real USDOT or MC number.

Vet one carrierPull up the fleetfax report for USDOT 9999999 and tell me about its authority and insurance.
Compare a fewCompare these carriers for me: MC 9999991, MC 9999992, and MC 9999993. Flag anything with blocking issues.
Check your watchlistAnything new on my watched carriers since Monday?

Access

What the assistant can and can't do

It acts as you, with only the access you approve when you connect.

It can

  • Look up any carrier by USDOT, MC, or name.
  • Read a carrier's full history, authority, and insurance record.
  • Add to or remove from your watchlist, and read your alerts.
  • Check up to 10 carriers at once in a batch.

It can't

  • See your payment or billing information.
  • Change your account or your plan.
  • Download your data in bulk.

Pro includes a daily allowance of 500 basic lookups; detailed history checks draw more of it. A batch of 10 counts as 10. See the full list on the what connecting can and can't do page.

Free connector

No Pro yet?

There will be a free fleetfax connector too, on any Claude plan and with no fleetfax account. It opens alongside the Pro one, and neither answers yet.

  1. Add it the same way (open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector), but paste this address instead:https://api.fleetfax.com/mcp
  2. There's no email sign-in. Turn fleetfax on in a chat and start asking.

The free connector will look up one carrier at a time and return a plain summary of each, with a link to the full fleetfax report, up to 100 lookups a day. For your whole book, full history, watchlists, and batch checks, that is what the Pro connector above adds.

Troubleshooting

If something goes wrong

No code email

Check your spam or junk folder first. Give it about 60 seconds, then ask for a new code. Codes are sent to the exact address you typed, so make sure it's your work email with no typos.

The code expired

Codes work once and for a few minutes only. If yours stopped working, request a new one and enter it right away.

It says you need Pro

Some answers, like batch checks and your watchlist, need a fleetfax Pro plan on the email you signed in with. See what Pro includes on the pricing page.

How to disconnect

In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, find fleetfax, and remove it. You can also sign out of fleetfax to end the connection right away; the assistant loses access the moment you do.

See fleetfax Pro What connecting can and can't do