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Simplify Carrier Vetting with Risk Factors by Truckstop

Carrier vetting, simplified without sacrifice.

Designed for fast-moving freight brokerages who need the best risk detection and fraud mitigation product on the market—one that’s comprehensive, fast, and simple.

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What is Risk Factors?

Risk Factors is a carrier vetting tool that analyzes billions of signals from Truckstop’s proprietary, licensed, and public data to deliver a summary of a carrier’s potential risk—right in your existing workflow.

A carrier’s status can change from qualified to risky in the blink of an eye. Fraudsters are getting smarter at stealing data and mimicking legitimate carriers. With Truckstop’s broker risk management tool, you can leverage valuable insights to mitigate risks. Access broker risk factors through:

  • Outlook Add-in

  • Chrome Browser

  • Edge Browser

  • API

» Tap into billions of carrier data points.

Get the latest insights on VoIP, VIN, IP address behavior and more across datasets, including Truckstop, RMIS, and FMCSA. Risk Factors is the only solution that includes IP address risk-detection using Truckstop’s behavioral pattern recognition.

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» Make an informed carrier decision.

From sender email identity verification to searching by DOT, MC, email, and phone number, get the quick insights you need to help you determine whether to vet deeper, discontinue, or strengthen a carrier relationship.

» Save time and increase productivity.

Risk Factors carrier vetting works everywhere you work. It’s accessible through a Chrome Extension, Outlook Add-in, and API, so you can work seamlessly on any webpage, including Gmail and your TMS.

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How Truckstop provides broker risk factor insights.

Truckstop provides broker risk factor insights by analyzing billions of data points across proprietary datasets. Our cutting-edge technology identifies potential risks using advanced algorithms that review changes in carrier information, behavior patterns, and compliance data.

This process flags carriers as high, medium, or low risk. As a freight broker, you’ll be able to make informed decisions and mitigate the risk of fraud within your operations.

How can Risk Factors limit truck broker liability?

Risk Factors limits truck broker liability by safeguarding your operations against potential legal and financial repercussions associated with carrier fraud and compliance issues. Truckstop offers a comprehensive vetting tool that evaluates carriers using extensive data analysis. Its ability to scrutinize a range of indicators, such as VoIP usage, VIN, and IP address behavior, can signal fraudulent activities.

The freight broker risk management tool also assesses potential risk levels by verifying sender email identities and analyzing inspection data. This valuable insight allows brokers to make more informed decisions and reduces the likelihood of engaging with high-risk or fraudulent carriers. As a result, the tool helps brokers manage and limit broker liability.

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FAQs

No, neither Truckstop nor Risk Factors can tell you whether to hire a carrier. Risk Factors presents you with context and factors to consider in your assessment of potential risk associated with a carrier. You should review why a carrier is High, Medium, and Low to decide your risk tolerance and whether you should move forward with a carrier. Additional diligence is always recommended.
Yes, the broker risk factors tool uses its proprietary solution, identity Verification (IDV), to verify sender email addresses. Truckstop has built a large database of verified freight professionals using facial recognition and legitimate government-issued IDs to reliably and securely screen individuals before they can log in to Truckstop.
We’d rather you know about carrier changes than let a possible bad actor through your gates. Truckstop provides high-, medium-, and low-risk indicators based on the data we possess and receive. If we see a change, like a contact information change, a carrier’s risk indicator can change from low to medium. Read the risk indicators, discuss changes with your carriers, and make the relationship decision that’s right for you.
We have an entire team dedicated to helping keep fraud out of our network. With nearly three decades of compliance management experience, our experts know which data matters, why it matters, and when it matters. This expertise has gone into developing algorithms to review and assess publicly available and proprietary data for signals of potential freight broker risk and to generate risk reports.
Neither Truckstop nor Risk Factors can tell you whether to hire a carrier. We believe you know your business best and have different carrier requirements and risk thresholds for each load. A carrier’s risk level indicates data changes that brokers should be aware of when making hiring decisions. You should always conduct additional vetting in line with your carrier selection policies before hiring a carrier.
Yes, Risk Factors analyzes inspection data provided by Truckstop inspection data providers. If you would like to view inspection history details or reports, please reference tools with inspection information, like Truckstop’s RMIS.
No. Only carriers with an active DOT with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can be assessed. MCs, phone numbers, and email addresses need to be associated with a DOT for data to be retrieved.
Yes, Risk Factors and RMIS have a two-way integration. RMIS customers can view the certification status of any carrier they search in Risk Factors directly from the Risk Factors extension.
Carriers with broker authority may operate their business differently than entities with carrier-only authority. The difference in operations may mean more frequent changes to contact information or changes in the behavioral data that we analyze from the Truckstop ecosystem, which may result in different risk assessments for carriers with broker authority vs. carriers without.

Safeguard your business with Risk Factors

Reduce truck broker liability and keep your business running smoothly with Risk Factors by Truckstop. Our broker risk management solution is designed to help you mitigate fraud, save money, and make decisions with speed and confidence. We want to ensure you connect with carriers you can trust.

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