For freight brokers
Carrier qualification you can put in a file.
Not a company-level score from last quarter — the exact driver, tractor, and trailer on the load you're covering, checked against live records and signed the day you book it. The Avowant Qualification Standard (AQS) defines what a complete per-load Asset Qualification Record (AQR) contains, so what you receive is the same shape every time, from every carrier.
What arrives in your inbox
When a carrier on Avowant covers your load, they can issue you a record in seconds.
Scoped to the load
Carrier authority and insurance, the driver's license and medical card and Clearinghouse status, and the tractor and trailer's registration and annual inspection — plus a pre-trip by that driver on that unit.
Dated and signed
Cryptographically signed and tamper-evident, with a key fingerprint and document hash. Verify any record you receive at a public link, without an account.
Consistent every time
Same sections, same freshness rules, same format — whether it comes from a five-truck carrier or a fifty-truck one. A file you can actually compare and store.
A documented, per-load vetting practice you can show your underwriter. Whatever your carrier-selection policy says today, records like these are what make it demonstrable — consistently formatted, independently verifiable, and dated to the booking.
Qualify the carrier. Verify the assets on the load.
Vetting the carrier is one gate. The load needs two.
A clean carrier record says nothing about the driver and truck showing up for your load.
Is the carrier real?
- Operating authority, safety rating and out-of-service rates, from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
- Insurers on file with FMCSA and any cancellations in the past 90 days, plus the carrier's certificates
- USDOT control, proved by a code sent to the email on the carrier's FMCSA registration
- Drug and alcohol program
- Fleet counts: current licenses, medical cards, Clearinghouse queries and annual inspections
Where carrier vetting usually stops. Here it's the carrier's public Carrier Qualification Record (CQR), every line labeled source-verified or carrier-attested.
Are this driver and this truck qualified for this load?
- Tied to the load number, the broker and the pickup date
- Driver: license, medical card, motor vehicle record (MVR) and Clearinghouse query
- Truck: registration, annual inspection, no open out-of-service defects
- A pre-trip the driver actually submitted
- Re-checked each time the broker opens the link
On-Demand Asset Vetting (ODAV), on the load's Asset Qualification Record (AQR).
Example: a chameleon carrier
- A carrier running under its parent company's clean authority books your load.
- Passes Gate 1 on the parent's record.
- Stopped at Gate 2: the driver's medical card lapsed, or the truck has an open out-of-service defect.
Since Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II (May 2026), negligent-selection claims against brokers are no longer preempted by federal law, and selection practices are getting a closer look across the industry.
We think the useful response is a better record, not a louder warning. That is the whole product.
Read the briefingStart with one carrier you already trust.
Add the next when it makes sense. Most brokerages who end up running compliance as a business started by helping a single carrier they didn't want to lose — not by deciding to become a compliance company.
Refer a carrier
Send us a carrier from your roster. We onboard them, and you share in the revenue for as long as they stay. No systems to learn, no work to take on — you already know who needs this.
Talk to us about referralsManage that carrier
Run compliance for them yourself, on Avowant. You hold the relationship and bill for the service; we supply the platform, the workflows, and the reports their auditors, underwriters, and brokers ask for. This is where the economics change — service revenue, not a referral trail.
Schedule a partnership callManage several
Add the next carrier when it makes sense, and the one after that. At a handful of clients you are operating a Third-Party Administrator (TPA) practice: one console, every client's standing at a glance, standardized deliverables, margin on each.
See the TPA pathReferral compensation is paid to the brokerage as an entity, never to an individual agent — a deliberate design choice given what this page is about. Terms are being finalized with counsel; talk to us and we'll walk you through where they stand.
Or just send your carriers the materials
No partnership required. We'll give you an information pack and a sample AQR to forward to your carrier network — including a version written to be read by your counsel.
Request the kitRefer a carrier
Tell us about a carrier you'd like Avowant to onboard, and we'll reach out within two business days. We'll cover referral terms with you directly.