Carrier Confirm is the enterprise vetting and continuous-monitoring platform freight brokers, 3PLs, and shippers run their carrier base through. 47 datapoints, 14 live data sources, audit-grade record — the documentary trail that holds up after a load goes sideways.
Sourced industry numbers, not our marketing. Every datapoint below carries a citation in the footer. The fraud landscape is what created the category — and what makes a serious vetting platform table-stakes for any broker tendering above noise.
A bad actor poses as a legitimate carrier or broker, intercepts the tender, and disappears with the load. The #1 fraud type in the 2025 TIA survey.
The carrier on paper isn't the carrier on the road. Re-tendered to an unvetted operator who absorbs your liability and sometimes the freight.
A truck shows up at the shipper with a forged BOL and credentials that look legitimate. Cargo leaves and never arrives.
Shut-down operators reincarnate under fresh DOT numbers, same address and principal. FMCSA's 2026 crackdown only catches a fraction.
Spoofed emails, compromised carrier portals, fake load-board listings. The FBI now classifies cargo theft as "primarily cyber-enabled."
Every onboarding runs the same rubric. Every datapoint cites the source it came from. Every check is timestamped, attributed, and saved — so the audit you might have to face is the easy part.
MC/USDOT pulled live from FMCSA. Authority age, common/contract status, revocation history, and identity reuse across MC numbers — the chameleon-carrier red flag.
Auto liability, cargo, GL, and MCS-90 — pulled, parsed, and watched. Certificate-holder named correctly. Real-time lapse alerts before the carrier learns about it.
Full BASIC scoring, OOS rates vs national average, crash indicator, and FMCSA safety rating. Watchlist auto-flags carriers crossing your tolerance bands.
W-9, EIN-to-MC match, BMC-84/85 surety verification, signed carrier-broker agreements with versioned audit trail. Banking VOID checks on file.
Live double-broker detection, dispatch-service tagging, fraud-history flags, and our own internal report-back network. The "should we tender?" decision in one screen.
Every datapoint we checked, when, from where, and who saw it. The documentary record that survives a cargo claim, an FMCSA audit, and a deposition.
A packet collected at onboarding is a snapshot of a moment in time. Insurance lapses, authority gets revoked, BASIC scores drift, identity gets reused on a different MC. Carrier Confirm re-checks every active carrier on the cadence below — and pings your team the moment something changes.
When a carrier scams a customer on the network, every other customer sees it within the hour. Anonymized, double-blind, broker-controlled — modeled on TIA Watchdog and CargoNet, with automated cross-customer pattern detection on top.
Phone, email, address, and principal reuse across MC numbers. Dispatch-service tagging. Rightful-owner validation. The signals identity-only platforms charge extra for — included in Monitor and above.
Every fraud report on the network becomes a signal for every customer on the network. We never share customer-attributable data — you see "flagged by 3 brokers in last 30d," not who.
Tender-time check correlates the dispatching MC against the moving MC. Mismatches halt the tender before it leaves the TMS, with a one-click escalation to your fraud desk.
The hardest part of broker liability defense isn't carrier vetting — it's proving you did it. Carrier Confirm produces the documentary record courts ask for: every datapoint we checked, when, from where, by whom. Exportable as a sealed audit pack, shaped around the Schramm and Sperl negligent-selection fact patterns and counsel-reviewed on the Defend tier.
Push verification status into the tender screen your dispatchers already use. Pull changes into your CRM. Get watchlist hits in Slack or Teams. We have not yet hit a TMS we couldn't push to.
Brokers, 3PLs, and shippers each carry a different liability posture. The platform stays the same; the workflow, permissions, and audit pack flex to fit.
The full vet-and-monitor stack. Tender-time checks, watchlist, audit pack — built around the bond claim and negligent-selection defense your bond carrier and outside counsel will ask about.
Branch-aware permissions, multi-seat at scale, and the cross-customer fraud signal that's twice as valuable when the network is bigger. Defend-tier customers get a dedicated CSM and 24/7 SLA.
Direct-to-carrier shippers carry the same fraud risk brokers do — with thinner ops staffing. Carrier Confirm runs your private-fleet alts through the same rubric, gates dock-arrival, and quarantines on lapse.
There are good tools in the carrier-vetting space — we use a few of them as upstream feeds. Here is where Carrier Confirm sits relative to the four shapes a buyer typically evaluates against. Honest, no name-and-shame.
Carrier Confirm is built to clear an enterprise IT review on the first pass. SOC 2 Type II, encryption discipline, regional data residency, and the documentation your vendor-management team will request before signing.
Three tiers. Annual billing for the published rate; monthly available for a small premium. Custom volume and multi-entity pricing on Defend. Demo first — we will not surprise you with a quote you didn't ask for.
One-time carrier onboarding packets, FMCSA pulls, and document vault. For brokers running under 50 new carrier setups a month.
Everything in Verify, plus 24/7 continuous monitoring, watchlist, fraud-feed pings, and TMS push. The standard tier for active brokers.
For 3PLs and enterprise brokers tendering at scale. Negligent-selection audit pack, custom rules engine, white-glove onboarding, and dedicated CSM.
All tiers include FMCSA SAFER + QCMobile pulls, document vault, audit log, and unlimited reviewers. Carriers are never charged for verification.
"We replaced two compliance vendors and a Google Sheet with one platform. The audit pack alone paid for the year — we used it the first time we got a bond claim."
"The continuous monitoring catches lapses we never used to see — we got a real-time cancellation ping on a carrier that was 30 minutes from being tendered. That's the use case."
"Onboarding a new carrier used to be a 35-minute job for our compliance lead. Median is under two minutes now. We tripled our active carrier base without adding a head."
If we don't answer it here, we'll answer it on the call. We tell you when an integration is roadmap, not "available." We tell you when a feature is on Defend and not on Verify.
Packet collection is one moment in time — the day you onboarded the carrier. Carrier Confirm runs continuously: authority, insurance, BASIC scores, and fraud-feed signal are re-checked on a 24/7 cadence, and we keep an immutable per-tender log of what was true the moment each load was awarded. That log is the document your bond claim and outside counsel will need.
No. Carriers complete the packet for free. Charging carriers creates the wrong incentive — we are paid by the broker / 3PL / shipper who has skin in the game. This also means our fraud signal is genuinely cross-customer and not gated behind a paywall the carrier has to clear.
We pull from FMCSA SAFER, QCMobile API, MCMIS, and L&I — both the public endpoints and the licensed feeds. Authority status and insurance filings refresh in real time on change events. CSA SMS BASICs refresh daily. Inspection and crash data refresh on FMCSA's monthly publication cycle.
Probably yes. We are live on McLeod LoadMaster, MercuryGate, Aljex, Revenova, Trimble TMW, Tai, Rose Rocket, and Turvo. If you run something else, we have a generic REST + webhook interface and a no-code Zapier / n8n bridge. Talk to sales — we have not yet hit a TMS we could not push to.
When a load goes sideways and you need to demonstrate that you exercised reasonable care in carrier selection, you export the audit pack for the tender. It includes every datapoint we verified, the source, the timestamp, the user who reviewed it, and the rule that allowed the tender to proceed. We have shaped this around the *Schramm* and *Sperl* fact patterns and counsel-reviewed it on the Defend tier.
Yes. Customers on Monitor and above can upload internal blocklists, regional carrier preferences, lane restrictions, and watchlists. They merge with our cross-customer signal and the public TIA Watchdog feed.
Median time-to-clear on a clean carrier is under 90 seconds end-to-end. Carriers with paperwork issues (expired COI, mismatched named-insured, mid-rotation banking) flag for human review in the same screen — typically cleared inside one business hour.
No. We host and version yours. Most customers bring their own paper, drafted by their counsel; we present it inside the carrier flow with click-through capture, signature timestamping, and amendment-on-renewal. If you do not have one, we will share a TIA-aligned template on request.