CarrierOk
Freight Brokers & 3PLs

9.9/10 on G2 · High Performer5.0 on the Chrome Web Store

Know exactly who you’re tendering to.

Two questions decide every tender: is this carrier who they say they are, and does their safety record hold up. CarrierOk answers both from the FMCSA source record, and tells you the day either one changes.

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The short answer

Two questions decide a tender: is this carrier who they say they are, and does their safety record hold up. CarrierOk answers both from the federal record, names the evidence behind each answer, and tells you the day either one changes.

Identity
Five identifying attributes, phone, address, email, EIN and DUNS, are checked against every other registrant, and each match is named rather than folded into a score.
Safety
All 7 BASIC percentiles including the two FMCSA withholds publicly, the ISS score with its recommendation, inspections, violations and crashes with dates.
Insurance
Policy-level filings as the insurer filed them: insurer, limit, effective date, and whether a prior policy was cancelled or replaced.
After the tender
Carriers you add to monitoring are re-checked against every FMCSA publish, and authority or insurance changes reach you the same day.
The record you keep
Any profile prints to a dated PDF carrying both the day you ran it and the date of the FMCSA snapshot behind it, which is what a negligent-selection question asks for a year later.
Before the tender

What to check before you tender a load.

Is this carrier who they say they are?

A revoked carrier can register a new DOT number and keep the same trucks, phone and yard. CarrierOk checks the record against every other entity in the dataset, so the link back shows up before you tender.

Does their safety record hold up?

For almost every carrier, the official rating is missing, so the answer lives in the inspections, violations and crashes underneath it. That is the part CarrierOk carries in full.

Can you show what you saw?

Any profile prints to a PDF carrier record, dated when you ran it and dated to the FMCSA snapshot behind it, so the check that informed a tender does not live only in someone's memory.

Identity

How CarrierOk detects chameleon carriers.

A carrier that loses its operating authority can register a new DOT number and keep the same trucks, the same phone, and the same yard. Nothing on that new record looks wrong, because the record is new. That is a chameleon carrier, and no single record will tell you about it.

So CarrierOk checks five identifying attributes against every other entity in the dataset and tells you which ones turn up elsewhere. Each match is named and counted rather than folded into a score, because what you do about a shared yard is different from what you do about a shared EIN.

Safety performance

All 7 BASICs, inspections, and crash history.

93% of active interstate carriers hold no FMCSA safety rating at all. For almost every carrier you tender to, the rating is not the safety signal. The record underneath it is.

So the record is what CarrierOk carries in full: every BASIC percentile including Crash Indicator and Hazardous Materials, the two FMCSA does not publish publicly, the ISS score with FMCSA's own bands, out-of-service rates against the national rate, crashes with severity, and the inspection history underneath all of it, violation by violation with dates. FMCSA publishes its safety files daily and CarrierOk ingests them daily, so a roadside inspection reaches the profile within days of the truck being stopped.

The record

Save a dated record of every carrier you check.

Since Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, decided unanimously by the Supreme Court in May 2026, how a broker selected a carrier is a live question of state law. Vetting that leaves no trace is hard to describe a year later.

Any profile prints to a PDF carrier record carrying both the date you ran it and the date of the FMCSA snapshot behind it, with authority, safety, fleet and inspections in one document. It is the same record the screen showed, in a form you can file.

Monitoring

Same-day alerts when a carrier changes.

Clearing a carrier once is a snapshot. Add the ones you use to your monitoring list and CarrierOk watches them for you, and tells you the day authority, insurance or a risk signal moves.

Chrome Extension

Vet a carrier without leaving the load board.

Click any DOT or MC number on any webpage and pull the full carrier profile: on load boards, in email, in your TMS, or in your CRM. No switching tabs, no copy and paste.

Rated 5.0 on the Chrome Web Store. Included with every CarrierOk plan, and it signs in with your CarrierOk account.

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Load boardChicago → Dallas  DOT# 1234567 ·  Van 48ft  ·  $2,140
CarrierOk
APEX TRANSPORT LLC
DOT# 1234567  ·  MC# 8765432  ·  Austin, TX
HIGH RISK
Authority
Active
Insurance
LAPSED
ISS Score
82
Active Risk Signals
insurance_lapsed_bipdCRITICAL
high_crash_basicHIGH
auth_reinstate_recentMEDIUM
new_registrant_u24moMEDIUM
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Beyond vetting

What else brokers use CarrierOk for.

Source the carriers you do not have yet

The Directory searches every registered carrier and broker by equipment type, fleet size, operating radius, region and contact name, so you can build depth in the lanes you actually run instead of posting and hoping.

Explore the Directory

Reach carriers the week their authority posts

The New Registrants feed surfaces carriers the day their operating authority is granted, which is the earliest point at which anyone can build the relationship.

See the registrations feed

Put the same vetting inside your own TMS

The same 300+ fields behind the app are available over the API, so the check can run where your dispatchers already work rather than in another tab.

Explore the API
Customers

What people running freight say

G2 High Performer, Fall 2026
“CarrierOk has been a major value add for our team, helping us quickly identify carriers that match our ideal customer profile. Exporting data gave us a strong foundation for new leads. They responded quickly with updates and the data we needed.”
MBMatt B.Head of Sales, TMS Software
“CarrierOk's carrier monitoring tool is fantastic. I'm able to stay on top of USDOT and FMCSA changes as they happen — all at my fingertips in one place. Our subscription has truly been a time and money saver.”
LMLisa M.Legal Operations Director, Great Plains Transportation

Reviews sourced from G2 ↗

Freight Brokers & 3PLs FAQ
CarrierOk is a carrier intelligence platform used to vet and monitor carriers before and after a tender. It consolidates the FMCSA record on any motor carrier or broker and adds the scoring FMCSA does not publish: all 7 BASIC percentiles, a computed ISS score, 50+ named risk signals, and policy-level insurance history, with monitoring that reports changes the same day. The same record is delivered however you consume it: a REST API, the web app, a Chrome extension, or bulk files. Brokers and 3PLs use it to answer the identity question and the safety question from the source record rather than from a packet the carrier sent.
In May 2026 the Supreme Court held unanimously in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II that the FAAAA does not preempt state-law negligent-selection claims against freight brokers. In practice that removes a preemption defense brokers had relied on, and it puts weight on being able to show that publicly available safety data was checked before a carrier was selected. We are not offering legal advice here. What CarrierOk does is make that safety record quick to check and easy to keep: the full FMCSA safety picture on one screen, and a printable carrier record you can save to the load file.
Start with what is missing: 93% of active interstate carriers hold no FMCSA safety rating, so for almost every carrier the rating tells you nothing and the record underneath is the signal. CarrierOk carries all 7 BASIC percentiles including Crash Indicator and Hazardous Materials, the two FMCSA does not publish publicly, plus the ISS score with FMCSA's own bands, vehicle and driver out-of-service rates against the national rate, clean inspection share, and the inspection and crash history behind all of it, violation by violation with dates. FMCSA publishes safety files daily and CarrierOk ingests them daily, so a roadside inspection reaches the profile within days of the truck being stopped. Percentiles appear where FMCSA assigns one: it only scores a BASIC when a carrier has enough relevant inspections in the window, so a small carrier may carry inspection history without a percentile.
A free lookup returns the carrier's own filing. CarrierOk adds the read on top of it: an overall risk verdict, the risk signals behind that verdict, and the reliability signals that count in a carrier's favor. It also runs an identity-network check across the full entity set, flagging when a phone number, address, EIN or DUNS number turns up on other DOT numbers, the pattern behind most chameleon carriers.
The risk signal array covers 50+ signals: chameleon identification through shared phone numbers, addresses, email domains, EINs and DUNS numbers; new entrant flags; authority cycling; insurance gap history; BASIC alert combinations; virtual and mailbox addresses; and power units shared with other carriers. Each signal is labelled and explained rather than rolled into a single opaque score.
The CarrierOk Chrome Extension lets you click any DOT or MC number on any webpage, on a load board, in email, in your CRM, and pull the full carrier profile without switching tabs. It is included with every CarrierOk plan and requires a CarrierOk account to view profiles. Rated 5.0 on the Chrome Web Store.
Yes. Add any carrier to your monitoring list and get a same-day alert when authority status changes, insurance lapses, or a new risk signal appears. Pro monitors 100 carriers, Team 750, and Business 2,000.
The Directory searches every FMCSA registrant by equipment type, fleet size, region and operating status, and the New Registrants feed surfaces newly authorized carriers, the earliest point at which you can build a relationship. Directory exports are capped per month by plan.

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