You advance cash against a carrier’s receivables. The federal file documents the carrier’s business operations: years in operation, the insurance filing pattern, government actions — cited, dated, one pull per carrier. It does not evaluate any individual’s creditworthiness or an invoice’s collectability.
The record is a facts-only PDF of what the federal sources showed while the carrier was under watch — registration, authority, insurance filings, government actions, safety data — with the source and date on every line and the log of each daily check. A record shows both the date of what it describes and the date it was generated, carries a reference number and a tamper-evident hash, and can be checked by anyone you hand it to at carrierarchive.com/verify. It covers only the days the carrier was under watch: a check that never ran cannot be written up afterwards, which is exactly why the watch is worth setting up before the load moves.
The patterns on a file are documented record facts, not opinions, and the composite of them was measured before it was shown to anyone: in a preregistered, single-shot test on 166,237 eligible held-out carriers, 22.4% of carriers flagged by the composite had an involuntary revocation of operating authority recorded within the observation window (95% CI 21.2–23.7%) versus 11.0% of the full eligible cohort — at least 1.6x by point estimate. Address matches were excluded from that test. The outcome measured was revocation, not crashes, fraud, unpaid invoices or business closure. How it was measured, in plain English, is on the methodology page.
No. Nothing here predicts whether an invoice gets paid or evaluates any individual's creditworthiness. The file shows a carrier's federal registration, insurance-filing and safety records and flags documented patterns in them. It informs your view of the carrier's operations; it is not a credit decision and not a replacement for your own underwriting.
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Because the rate was measured and a score would be invented. The one number we publish is the measured rate at which carriers flagged by our composite lost operating authority in a preregistered test run once, with its confidence interval, on the methodology page. Individual patterns are shown as documented facts, not scored.
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