For-hire carriers
Two carriers quoted the same lane.
Who gets the load?
Brokers tender to the carrier who's easiest to say yes to. 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.
Free onboarding for a limited time — we load your records for you.
Learn moreEveryone else qualifies the company. We qualify 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 — the unit of negligence after Montgomery.
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.
That is an opportunity if you can answer the question well. The carriers who make vetting easy are the carriers who keep getting tendered.
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.”
The Operational Advantage of Extreme Competence
Why this changes your posture
When a broker faces a deposition asking how they vetted the carrier on a load — or a plaintiff attorney evaluates whether to file at all — your case profile changes when you can produce a complete, tamper-evident Asset Qualification Record (AQR) within an hour. Sophisticated defendants don't draw the marginal lawsuits. They draw the merit-only cases, and defend them on documented competence.
And your negotiation posture changes too. AQR-first carriers don't just survive Montgomery — they win loads at better rates because brokers prefer the carriers who pre-solve their vetting burden.
Tamper-evident
Auditable
Built to defeat fabrication claims
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.