Every carrier you hand freight to represents you to your customer. Check new partners as you onboard them, track the roster, and let the daily check do the remembering.
The record is a facts-only PDF of what the federal sources showed while a carrier was under your account's watch — with every daily check listed, every alert we sent, and the source and date on every line. 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.
$99 a month covers up to 100 tracked carriers; each additional 100 is $20 a month, raised from inside the account. Three hundred carriers is $139 a month, users included. Founding prices, on the pricing section.
No. Critical changes go out one per affected carrier. Everything else is bundled into one digest per person per day, and a day with no changes sends nothing. Each person also chooses which carriers alert them.
The account's activity log records who added or removed each carrier, who changed alert settings and who requested a record, with timestamps. Adding a carrier to the list is not an approval decision; your own approval process is yours to document. The owner sees the whole log; each user sees their own.
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Carrier Archive is an independent, privately operated service and is not affiliated with FMCSA or any government agency. Every fact on a carrier file is cited to its federal source and date; indicators describe documented record patterns and are not accusations about any carrier. The decision to use a carrier is yours; we do not select or recommend carriers. Nothing on this page is legal advice. Federal files checked daily.