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Catch what a clean lookup misses
Reincarnated authorities, rented MC numbers, insurance lapses, safety against peers. The whole federal record on any carrier.
The carrier report
Everything on a carrier, in one report.
Authority, insurance, inspections, safety history and ownership, in one report. Each item is stated as a fact from the federal record.
The top of a report. The findings come first, then the record behind them. Cautions are named, not scored, and each one opens to the filing it came from. The line under the name links to the official record. Product view with fictional carriers, numbers and contacts.
Risk flags
Fraud patterns checked on every report.
Some fraud leaves marks in the federal record. Every report checks for the patterns brokers get burned by and lists what it finds as cautions. Some of the checks:
- Caution: Authority was previously revokedThe carrier's own authority was revoked in the last five years. The report names the revocation so you can judge it.Caution
- Caution: Trucks also operated under other carriersTrucks seen at this carrier’s roadside inspections also show up under other carriers, which can mean the number is lent to unrelated trucks.Caution
- Caution: New authorityActive for less than six months.Caution
The fraud playbook
How stolen loads actually start.
Freight fraud is typically worked from a distance: the thief books a load under another carrier's name, or under a made-up identity that gets dropped soon after. The report shows what the federal record says about the carrier you are checking.
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Carrier impersonation
A fraudster picks a real carrier and books as them, from a lookalike email domain, with a throwaway internet phone number. The load is taken under the stolen name, handed to a driver who may not know, and sent somewhere else.
In the reportThe phone and email on the federal record (sign in, free), so your callback goes to the number on file, not the number in the email. - 02
The hijacked registration
Some fraudsters change a real carrier's contact information with FMCSA itself. Then the number on file can ring the thief.
In the reportThe phone and email on file (sign in, free). On Pro, the latest change fleetfax has seen to the phone, email or address, each dated. - 03
Chameleon carriers
A carrier shut down for cause can reopen under a new USDOT number, sometimes with the same company name, officer and phone number. Federal auditors found a new number lets it “avoid any association with its history,” including fines and out-of-service orders.
In the reportThe report compares its officers, phone numbers, address and trucks with other carriers, and points out ties to carriers whose authority was revoked. On Pro, Connections explorer names them. - 04
Double brokering
A carrier books your load, then quietly hands it to another trucker at a lower rate and keeps the difference. You find out when the driver who actually hauled it calls you to get paid.
In the reportWhich authority the company holds (carrier, broker or both) and whether a broker bond is on file, how new that authority is, and the trucks and roadside inspections on its record, so a “carrier” with no trucks and no inspections stands out.
Peer safety percentiles
Measured against carriers with a similar record.
Ten violations mean one thing at five hundred inspections and another at twelve. fleetfax compares each carrier against others with a similar inspection record.
Each measure compares the carrier with its own group of similar carriers. Crash rate is per million miles. A higher percentile means more violations than peers, not a pass or a fail.
FMCSA keeps its own percentiles hidden, so these are fleetfax estimates built from the same public records, not official CSA scores.
Authority and insurance history Pro
Every filing and lapse, going back years.
The full run of authority events and insurance filings, side by side, so a gap that closed two years ago still shows.
Each filing carries its insurer, policy, effective date and how it ended: replaced, or cancelled.
Granted in December, revoked by March. An authority barely three months old, next to the insurance ledger that explains it: a $750K policy cancelled with no replacement on file. A packet from onboarding would still say this carrier was covered; the report shows the record as it stands today.
Observed fleet
The trucks actually seen on the road.
Counted from roadside inspections, next to the number the carrier reports. Reported and observed are two separate facts, and not every truck gets inspected, so a gap is a reason to ask the carrier, not proof of anything by itself.
Each truck or trailer seen in an inspection is listed with the VIN it was read from, and the make, year and class decoded from it.
Decoded from roadside-inspection VINs. Each row is one truck or trailer seen in an inspection, with the VIN it was read from and the make, year, and class decoded from it.
Operating map
Where a carrier was observed.
Built from where the carrier's trucks have actually been inspected, not from a service area somebody filled in on a form.
Every dot is a roadside inspection or crash, placed by county. The dashed lines are the corridors those stops keep landing on, and the marked point is the carrier's registered home base.
Product views with fictional carriers, numbers and contacts.
Beyond one report
Vetting one carrier is the easy part.
The report stays free on every carrier, with a daily limit. A free account checks any carrier you open against the default rules. Pro adds carrier history, email alerts, bulk vetting & exports, connections explorer and custom vetting rules, with up to 200 carriers in your book and no daily limit on reports.
Your rules, on every carrier.
Custom vetting rules are a Pro feature. Build your qualification rules from 19 checks over the federal record, with your threshold and grading on each one. Open a carrier and see whether it meets your minimums and which rule decides it. Where the record can't settle a rule, the report says so.
A free account checks any carrier you open against the default rules, rule by rule.
Each rule reads the federal record. The numbers are yours, and so is the grading. fleetfax only shows how the record compares with them.
Catch what a clean lookup misses.
The report stays free on every carrier, with a daily limit.
Pro
Carrier history, email alerts, bulk vetting & exports, connections explorer and custom vetting rules.
Up to 200 carriers in your book, each with email alerts, and no daily limit on reports.
