For-hire carriers
Be the carrier
brokers say yes to.
Is it hard to get set up with new brokers — or to stay on their approved list? Avowant issues an Asset Qualification Record (AQR) for the exact driver, tractor, and trailer on the load — dated today, cryptographically signed, and verifiable by anyone you send it to. You hand your broker their due diligence, already done.
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Learn moreSafety scores qualify the company. An AQR qualifies the load.
A broker checking your safety score learns something about your company, last quarter. It tells them nothing about the truck rolling toward their dock this afternoon.
Company-level, after the fact
- Public FMCSA scores refresh monthly from a snapshot
- About ten days of processing lag before it posts
- A twenty-four month lookback window behind the number
- The GAO found most carriers are inspected too infrequently for those scores to be reliable[5]
- Says nothing about a specific driver, truck, or trailer
Load-level, dated today
- Computed from your live compliance records at the moment of request
- Scoped to this driver, this tractor, this trailer
- Every component carries its own freshness rule
- Cryptographically signed, tamper-evident, publicly verifiable
- Delivered as a PDF or a permalink your broker can file
Public FMCSA cadence and lookback per the agency's own Safety Measurement System documentation.[4]
On-Demand Asset Vetting
ODAV
Living, not stale.
Today's pre-trip. Today's medical card. Today's clearinghouse status. Not last quarter's annual inspection.
Load-level, not company-level.
Qualify the driver, truck, and trailer actually rolling on this load.
Measured, not checked.
With TraXion-instrumented pre-trips (coming soon), tread depth and brake-pad wear become sensor readings, not signatures.
What an AQR actually certifies
Three layers, each with its own freshness rule. If any one of them is stale, the record does not issue.
The carrier
- Operating authority
- Insurance on file
- Drug & alcohol program in good standing
The driver
- Commercial driver's license (CDL), current and correctly endorsed
- Medical examiner's certificate, unexpired
- Clearinghouse query within 12 months
- Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) reviewed within 12 months
The tractor and trailer
- Registration, current
- Annual inspection within 12 months, by a qualified inspector (§396.19/.25)
- A pre-trip inspection by this driver, on this unit, within the last day
When it refuses, that's the point.
If a medical card lapsed or an annual inspection is overdue, Avowant will not sign an AQR saying otherwise. Instead you get the list of exactly what's stale, each item linked to the screen that fixes it. A qualification record that always says yes is worth nothing to the broker receiving it — the refusal is what makes the signature mean something.
Why brokers started asking harder questions
In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II (May 2026), the Supreme Court held that negligent-selection claims against freight brokers are not preempted by federal law. Brokers responded by documenting carrier selection far more carefully than before.
Schneider National cut its approved brokerage carrier network from 60,000 to 14,000. The cut began as a response to cargo theft, as brokers face more scrutiny over the carriers they select. Its CEO said checking operating authority and safety ratings was no longer enough, and that other large brokers may have to do the same.[7]
That is an opportunity if you can answer the question well: with Avowant, the answer is a signed record for the load, ready before they ask.
Read the full briefingThe industry on Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II
“If a broker has no documented carrier vetting process, that absence is itself evidence.”
“The liability does not disappear. It redistributes. It redistributes to the parties who had the data and could have acted on it.”
“While the decision directly affects freight brokers, retailers and other shippers are unlikely to be insulated from the broader operational consequences.”
Proof on every load starts with a well-kept fleet
The same records that issue an AQR are the ones a DOT compliance review examines.Avowant keeps them current.
Know what an auditor would find
The Audit Gap Report scores your fleet as if the audit were today, and the Audit Compiler assembles your response package when a notice arrives.
Close out roadside inspections
Corrective Action Forms (CAFs) with a guided flow — Avowant's AI drafts the corrective action, your team reviews, signs, and sends it.
Catch defects in the yard
Drivers run pre-trips from a phone; findings become work orders tracked to certified completion — and today's pre-trip is part of every AQR.
See it issue one
The demo is a fully loaded Avowant environment — drivers, equipment, inspections, and documents you can scan yourself. The guided walkthrough ends by generating an AQR.
Booking loads rather than hauling them?
The Avowant Qualification Standard (AQS) defines what a complete per-load qualification record contains — and there's a partner path for brokerages who want their carriers issuing them.
For brokersSources
- ATRI, Understanding the Impact of Nuclear Verdicts on the Trucking Industry (2020) — average verdict in $1M+ truck cases grew from $2.3M (2010) to $22.3M (2018).
- ATRI, Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking: 2025 Update — insurance premiums rose 12.5% in 2023 and a further 3.0% in 2024 to a record $0.102/mile.
- Swiss Re 2024 Sigma report — trucking among sectors most affected by mega verdicts; excess coverage rate increases of more than 75%.
- FMCSA CSA Help Center — SMS results are updated monthly from a snapshot that takes ~10 days to process and validate, over a 24-month lookback.
- U.S. GAO, GAO-14-114 — most carriers are inspected too infrequently to produce reliable SMS scores.
- Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, No. 24-1238 (U.S. May 14, 2026) — decided 9–0; state negligent-selection claims against brokers are not FAAAA-preempted.
- Truck News, “Schneider sees tighter trucking capacity, rising rates and autonomous opportunities ahead” (Sept. 25, 2026) — Schneider National cut its approved brokerage carrier network from 60,000 to 14,000, per CEO Jim Filter at the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference, Sept. 15, 2026.