CarrierMark grades every driver and equipment file two ways, then ranks the findings by litigation weight so your compliance team works the highest-exposure gaps before anything else. Continuous, across the whole fleet.
This page showcases the product. Run the two scores on a real carrier inside the live app.
This file would mostly clear an audit but carries high litigation exposure. That gap is what a plaintiff’s lawyer attacks.
Illustrative scores, not carrier data
Would this file survive a DOT audit? Whether the record would pass a compliance review under 49 C.F.R. Part 385. The regulator’s question.
How does it play after a crash? How strongly the file supports a negligent hiring, retention, or entrustment case. The plaintiff’s lawyer’s question.
A crash pulls the driver’s qualification file, the unit’s maintenance record, and everything around them into discovery. Negligent hiring, retention, and entrustment cases are built from exactly the gaps CarrierMark measures, and plaintiff firms publish those target lists openly.
An audit asks the regulator’s question once a cycle. The litigation question arrives without an appointment, years after the file was made. At fleet scale the problem is volume: hundreds of drivers and units, each a file that can be attacked. Knowing every gap is not enough. You have to know which gap is the exhibit.
Every driver qualification file and equipment record is graded as the record changes, so nothing drifts out of compliance between audits.
Findings sort by how badly a file plays after a crash, so a thousand-unit fleet still knows the one file to fix this morning.
Whether a file survives a DOT audit and how it reads to a plaintiff’s lawyer are different questions. CarrierMark answers both and never averages them into one number.
Drivers, tractors, trailers, the whole roster, under one system of record you can hand to counsel.
Illustrative promo, not carrier data
One system of record for every company the FMCSA touches.
Define your selection criteria once: operating authority, insurance on file, safety rating, out-of-service history, whatever your standard requires. Policies are versioned, so you can prove which rules were in force on any given date.
At selection, Vault pulls the carrier’s public FMCSA record and seals it: a timestamped snapshot of exactly what was knowable on the day of your decision. Raw data preserved as pulled. Nothing summarized away.
When business requires an exception, it runs through a structured override with a documented justification and an approver. No free-text landmines. No silent workarounds.
One click produces the decision-date record: the sealed snapshot, the policy version in force, the decision trail, bound in a tamper-evident chain proving nothing was altered after the fact.
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What you decide is sealed the moment you decide it: the carrier’s public FMCSA record and the decision you made, bound in a timestamped document with a cryptographic hash and a verified chain. The file proves on its face that nothing was altered after the seal, so years later the answer to what you knew and what you did is a document, not a memory.
Vault is not an onboarding packet tool. It is not a monitoring subscription. It is not a carrier safety predictor. Keep the platforms you use to find, onboard, and track carriers. Vault sits alongside them as the evidence layer.
And one thing we will never do: tell you a carrier is “safe.” Nobody can promise you a carrier is safe, and a vendor who does is drafting a plaintiff’s exhibit. Vault documents the thing the law actually asks of you: reasonable care, exercised with the information available, recorded when it happened.
When a crash pulls a driver’s file into discovery, the record already exists, timestamped to the day you relied on it.
We are onboarding a founding cohort of 8 operations before general availability.
Enter a DOT number and get a free snapshot of the carrier’s current public FMCSA record, formatted the way Vault seals it.
Founding cohort applications are open. The free snapshot tool is live now.