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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?

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.

Risk Factors is the only 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.

  • 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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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, Truckstop’s 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 real government issued IDs to reliably and securely screen before any individual can login to Truckstop products.
We’d rather you know about carrier changes than let a possible bad actor through your gates. High, Medium, and Low is provided based on the data Truckstop possesses and receives. 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, 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 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 relative to entities with carrier-only authority. This 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.