Vet a carrier before you tender the load
The carriers that burn brokers rarely look risky in the ten seconds before a load gets tendered. Agent FM takes the ten minutes instead: authority status and history on SAFER, out of service rates and inspection record, insurance on file, how long the MC has been active, and the classic fraud tells, reused phone numbers, a fresh authority claiming a big fleet, addresses that don't line up. You get a short go or no-go summary with links to the evidence, logged in the carrier sheet. Dispatch keeps its pace, and the load stops riding on a hunch about a carrier nobody had time to check.
Vet [carrier, e.g. Bluegrass Freight LLC, MC 445120] before we tender them the [lane, e.g. Louisville to Atlanta] load.
Pull their authority status and history on SAFER, out of service rates and inspection record, insurance on file, and how long the MC has been active. Check the usual fraud tells: reused phone numbers, a fresh authority claiming a big fleet, addresses that don't line up.
Write a short go or no-go summary with links to what you found and log it in the carrier sheet. Tell me your read and flag anything you couldn't verify.
