Carrier Vetting & Onboarding
Vetting carriers and onboarding partners you can trust.
270 Schools Down, 5,000 Flagged Drivers on the Road: What the Federal CDL Crackdown Doesn't Fix for Brokers
On August 31, 2026, DOT and DHS shut down 270 commercial driver training schools and launched a sweeping interagency task force. The enforcement action confirms what good carrier vetting already assumes: a valid CDL on SAFER tells you almost nothing about the identity behind it.
35,000 Carriers Gone: What Landstar's Network Purge Tells Every Broker About the New Standard of Care
Landstar cut its approved carrier pool from over 100,000 to 64,000 in four years — and the reason it started isn't liability law. It's cargo fraud. Here's what that means for every broker still running static onboarding.
Operation Highway Shield Just Took 766 Trucks Off the Road. Here's What Brokers Are Still Missing.
Federal agencies pulled 766 drivers and vehicles out of service and arrested 86 operators in a three-day sweep targeting CDL fraud. The vetting gap those numbers reveal runs straight through broker onboarding.
Montgomery Changed the Rules. Here's What Your Carrier File Needs to Show a Jury.
The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II stripped freight brokers of the federal preemption defense they used for decades. Now the only thing standing between a broker and a negligent-selection verdict is a documented, timestamped vetting record — and most broker files aren't built for that.
800 Truckers Swept Off the Road — and the CDL Problem Brokers Still Can't See From SAFER
Operation Highway Shield's second wave pulled 766 drivers and vehicles out of service across four Midwest states in three days. The bigger story for freight brokers: a non-domiciled CDL on a carrier's driver roster looks identical to a clean domestic license in every database you're already checking.
766 Drivers Pulled Off the Road. The CDL Problem Is Upstream — and Brokers Are Holding the Bag.
Operation Highway Shield's second wave removed 766 drivers and vehicles from service and exposed a systemic CDL fraud pipeline that brokers can't detect with a SAFER snapshot alone. Here's what the sweep reveals about your carrier vetting gaps.