Carrier Vetting: Know Who Is Really Hauling Your Freight.
Every carrier looks legitimate on paper. SureLoadr carrier vetting shows you what the paperwork does not: a risk score re-scored every day, and the double-brokering and identity patterns that decide whether your freight actually arrives.
A risk score re-scored every day, not a file refreshed when someone remembers
Double-brokering and identity patterns a records check will not surface
An alert the moment authority or insurance lapses on a carrier you booked
Double-brokering screen: No ghost-carrier pattern found
This carrier has an inspection history, so it does not match the non-hauling shell pattern.
Safety
Driver out-of-service rate (112 inspections)1.8%
National average: 5.5%
Vehicle out-of-service rate (94 inspections)7.4%
National average: 20.4%
Inspections126
Crashes (since Jan 2023)0
Fatal crashes0
Injury crashes0
Each bar shows the share of this carrier’s roadside inspections that ended in an out-of-service order (the vehicle or driver pulled from service until a problem is fixed). The marked line is the national average across all carriers — a bar past it (red) is worse than average; shorter and green is better. Rates drawn from only a few inspections are marked “limited sample” and count for proportionally less in the risk score, since a single roadside stop can read as 100%. Source: FMCSA SMS.
Fleet Details
Tractors
Trailers
Trucks
Owned
36
52
2
Leased
2
6
0
Self-reported by the carrier on its MCS-150 filing.
Truck Types
Dry Van / General
Flatbed / Step-deck
Freight
General Freight
Building Materials
Machinery, Large Objects
Risk score — 12-week look-back
Hover any point to see its date and value.
SureLoadr Risk
93
Low risk
Fleet summary
Power Units
38
Drivers
44
MCS-150 Mileage
3,410,000 (2025)
MCS-150 Last Filed
Feb 18, 2026
Authority
Common Active — Mar 6, 2019 (7 years, 6 months)
Carrier Operation
Interstate
Cargo Authorization
Property
Also Holds Broker Authority
No
Prior Revocations
0
Prior Reinstatements
0
Insurance filings on record
Coverage
Insurer
Policy / surety #
Coverage
Effective
Public Liability (BIPD) · BMC-91X
HEARTLAND MOTOR UNDERWRITERS
PL-2907318
$1,000,000
Mar 6, 2019
Public records & bankruptcy
No bankruptcies, judgments or liens on file
U.S. federal bankruptcy court records searched for QUARRY BEND TRANSPORT INC.
Safety Violations
Total
Severe
Out of Service
Measure
Vehicle Maintenance
6
1
0
1.1
Unsafe Driving
3
0
0
0.4
Hours-of-Service Compliance
2
0
0
0.3
Driver Fitness
1
0
0
0.2
Violations written at roadside inspections over the last 24 months, grouped by CSA category. “Severe” counts those FMCSA weights 7 or higher on its 0–10 severity scale. “Measure” is FMCSA’s violation rate for the category, not a count or a percentage: each violation is weighted by how serious it is and how recent — one from the last six months counts about three times one from two years ago, and an out-of-service violation carries extra weight — then divided by how often the carrier is inspected, so a large fleet is not penalized for sheer volume. Lower is better and 0 means none on record. Compare a category against other carriers rather than against the categories beside it, which run on different scales.
Accident Report
Last 6 Months
6-12 Months ago
12-24 Months ago
Total
Fatalities
0
0
0
0
Injuries
0
0
0
0
Tow-away
0
0
0
0
Crash Reports
0
0
0
0
Federally reportable crashes, regardless of who was at fault — FMCSA does not record fault. A tow-away is the lowest bar for a reportable crash, so it is normally the largest row.
Inspections
Inspections
OOS Inspections
OOS Percentage
National Average
Driver
112
2
1.8%
5.5%
Vehicle
94
7
7.4%
20.4%
An out-of-service order pulls the driver or vehicle from the road until the problem is fixed. Read the percentage against the inspection count beside it — one failed inspection out of one reads as 100% and means far less than the same figure over forty.
Roadside Inspections
Date
State
Level
Result
Aug 19, 2026
IA
II
Clean
▸
Jun 3, 2026
NE
III
1 violation
▸
Feb 27, 2026
MO
I
Clean
▸
The 3 most recent of 126 roadside inspections on file, newest first. FMCSA publishes these on a rolling 24-month window, which currently runs Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2026. Inspections older than that have aged off its file, and because it is rebuilt monthly and runs a few weeks behind, a very recent stop may not be on it yet. The inspection, violation and out-of-service figures above are drawn from that same window. Levels are I full inspection, II walk-around, III driver-only, IV special study, V vehicle-only and VI radioactive, so a carrier with no Level I stops has simply not had one, not passed one. An inspection that found something opens to show what was written up and which vehicle was stopped.
Use as Information, Not a Guarantee
SureLoadr is decision-support software. It is not a safety certification, an endorsement, a guarantee of performance, or a legal advisor, and nothing in this report is an instruction to tender or withhold a load. The underlying records come from federal sources and third-party contributors that SureLoadr does not control, and are provided as received — without warranty that they are complete, current, or free of error.
This report describes the company registered under this DOT number — not necessarily whoever contacted you about the load. Before tendering, confirm you are dispatching that company: call back on a number you verify independently rather than one supplied in an email or on a load board, and request the certificate of insurance from the insurer or agent directly. Carrier identity theft and double-brokering both work by borrowing a legitimate carrier’s record, so treat the rating as one input alongside that check.
As a condition of use, and as set out in the Terms of Service, you agree that every tendering, hiring and business decision you make is your own. SureLoadr is not responsible for those decisions and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, is not liable for any loss, cargo claim, lost profit, or other damage — direct or indirect — arising from your use of this report or your reliance on it.
A one-truck carrier with a long, clean history can be a great partner, and a large fleet is not automatically safe. SureLoadr carrier vetting weighs the record itself, so size on its own never decides the score.
Every carrier is measured on its own authority, safety, and operating history, never on size alone
New and small carriers are scored on the same data as everyone else, with no automatic red flag for being new or small
Large fleets are measured against their own activity, so hauling more freight does not move the score by itself
We identify ghost-carrier and double-brokering patterns using publicly available data, sourced data from our partners, and our proprietary algorithm
Find Carriers
Source carriers, not just vet the ones you have.
Carrier vetting answers whether one carrier is safe to use. Find Carriers answers the harder question of who to call in the first place. It searches the same scored database behind every report, so the list you get back has already been through the checks.
The safest carriers come back first. Results are ranked by SureLoadr risk score, highest to lowest, on every search. The strongest options in your lane are at the top before you filter anything.
Carriers that fail the basics never appear. Active operating authority, liability insurance on file, and a low double-brokering risk are enforced on every search. They are not switches you can turn off, so a carrier you should not be calling does not reach your screen.
Filter down to the lane you actually run. Narrow by state and city, by equipment type, by minimum fleet size, and by how much risk you are willing to look at. Search low-risk carriers only, or open it up when a lane is thin.
Contact details, then the full report. Every result carries the carrier's location, fleet size, risk band and its phone number and email, so you can pick up the phone straight from the list. The complete vetting report on that carrier is one click away.
FAQ
Carrier vetting, answered.
What is carrier vetting?
Carrier vetting is the review a broker or shipper runs before booking a carrier: confirming the carrier's operating authority is active, its insurance is in force, and its safety and crash history support the freight in question, then checking for the patterns that signal a ghost carrier or a re-brokered load. It answers one question — can this carrier actually haul this load, and is the entity on the paperwork the one that will do it.
What should a carrier report include?
Operating authority and its status, insurance on file with coverage limits, safety and inspection history, crash exposure, fleet size and activity, and the red flags that point to double brokering or an identity that does not match the paperwork. Read them together rather than one at a time — a carrier can be authorized and insured and still be the wrong carrier for the load.
Can carrier vetting guarantee a carrier will deliver?
No. Vetting narrows risk; it does not remove it. A report reflects authority, insurance, safety and activity as recorded at the time it is pulled, and any of those can change after you book. Treat it as decision support alongside your own process and contracts, not as a certification. It is also why the carriers you book most are worth monitoring — a lapse reaches you when it happens rather than when a load is already moving.
Built for brokers & shippers
Start carrier vetting before you book.
One report answers whether the carrier is real, currently authorized, insured, and unlikely to hand your freight to somebody else. Every carrier is re-scored daily, so what you read is where that carrier stands today rather than whenever a file was last imported. $10 per report, or unlimited from $99/month with monitoring that tells you when something changes on a carrier you already use.