Carrier vetting that leaves a dated record

You post a load, the phone rings all morning, and you have to pick one of them. Pull the file on the carrier you like, book with what the federal record shows, and keep the watch running so the record is there when a claim shows up months later.

What the file shows you

• Operating authority — current status, the date it last changed, and FMCSA's stated reason, from both of FMCSA's registration systems.
• Insurance on file with FMCSA — the BI&PD amount on file against the required minimum, plus every filing in the history: insurer, effective date, cancellation date and method.
• Government actions — revocations, suspensions, reinstatements and out-of-service orders, dated.
• Roadside inspections and crashes — 24-month counts with out-of-service results, and the violations that were actually cited.
• Documented patterns — repeated insurance filing gaps, frequent insurer changes, FMCSA's prior-revocation field, a shared street address with a recently revoked registration. Each cites the government record it comes from; a shared address does not establish common ownership.

How it fits your day

1. Check. Type the MC or USDOT number. The whole file opens, free, no signup — one page instead of four government sites.
2. Monitor. Track the carrier with your email. We check its federal files every day and email you when a material change appears: authority revoked or suspended, insurance cancelled with nothing filed to replace it, an out-of-service order.
3. Prove. When a shipper, an insurer or a lawyer asks what you checked and when, request the Dated Verification Record. It is emailed to you and stays under your account.

What the record covers — and what it doesn't

The record is a facts-only PDF of what the federal sources showed for that carrier while it was under your watch — identity, authority, insurance filings, government actions and safety data, with the source and date on every line, plus the log of every daily check and every alert we sent you. 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 number behind the patterns

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.

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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.