GroundCheck FMCSA turns your vetting into a sealed record you can hand to a claims team or a plaintiff's lawyer and say: this is what we saw, this is why we moved forward, and this is who made the call.
Vet the carrier.
Document the decision.
Defend it when it's your name on the file.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling stripped brokers of their broadest preemption defense. If a carrier you tendered is ever named in a lawsuit, the plaintiff's attorney will not ask whether you ran a check. They will ask: show me the record of what you decided, and why.
Most brokers today have dashboards, emails, and memories. GroundCheck gives you a single, sealed selection record per load instead.
Every carrier gets a confidence value computed from verified inputs — and every point traces to a factor you can inspect and cite. If you can't explain a score to a judge, it's not a score you can rely on to defend a decision. So we don't build those.
Search the carrier. Read the score. Decide — proceed, override, or decline. The record seals itself.
Enter a carrier at tender. GroundCheck pulls FMCSA, insurer, and identity-graph signals in one motion — no tabs, no copy-paste.
Proceed, override the flag with a documented reason, or decline — one action. The choice and its rationale become part of the record, attributed to the named reviewer.
The record seals itself — tamper-evident, timestamped, and carried forward through monitoring, incident, and claim. Produced on demand the moment the decision is questioned.
GroundCheck is not an FMCSA lookup and not compliance software — those tools tell you what's true about a carrier today. They don't tell anyone, six months from now, why you picked that carrier over another. That's the gap this closes.
A defensible record shows a reasonable process was followed, by a named person, at the moment of tender — and that material changes were tracked afterward. This is the exact structure a defense attorney will look for first.
Read the Montgomery brief →We'd rather tell you what this doesn't do than let you find out the hard way.
If you're a freight broker, every tender is now a potential negligent-selection exhibit. GroundCheck FMCSA gives you a repeatable vetting standard, a scored decision, and a sealed record per load, so your lawyers and insurers have something solid to work with when a carrier hurts someone.
If you're an insurer or MGA, GroundCheck FMCSA is a loss-control rail you can drop in front of your brokers' carrier selection. It turns policy language into measurable behavior — which carriers they hire, what risks they saw, and how often they overrode the standard — so you can price, defend, and differentiate with real data instead of assumptions.
If you're a Chief Legal Officer, GroundCheck FMCSA gives you something most brokers do not have today: a documented, explainable carrier-selection record tied to the actual tender decision. Instead of reconstructing judgment from scattered systems after a crash, you have a named reviewer, a timestamped rationale, and a tamper-evident record ready for scrutiny.
Bring the standard-of-care layer to your desk before the next tender — and to your file before the next claim.
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