Carrier vetting resources
Everything the federal government has on a carrier is public, but it is scattered across 29 datasets, and the SAFER snapshot most people check shows only a sliver. These guides and free tools show you how to read the whole record: the safety percentiles, the operating map, the fleet, and the risk flags. They also cover finding carriers by lane and checking whether the federal systems are up.
How to vet a carrier
The full walkthrough, on a real carrier: what is in the federal record, how to read the safety percentiles and the operating map, and what each flag means.
Open the guideOriginal findings from the federal record
Seven reports built on the federal record, including “Reopened, not reformed” on carriers that come back under a new USDOT number, and “Active, authorized, uninsured” on the roughly eight-week insurance gap.
Browse the research