Built for underwriting. CSA scores tell you a carrier's roadside history. The Exposure grade tells you how a file plays after a crash: the litigation risk no other score prices.
Federal Safety Record (FMCSA)
Public USDOT data folded into the score, not an official safety rating
Broker Selection Risk
If you tender a load to this carrier: your negligent-selection exposure
Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II (2026) let negligent-selection claims proceed against brokers. A broker or shipper that tendered a load to Halverson could own that choice. These are the public red flags a reasonable vetting process would have surfaced first.
- Vehicle out-of-service rate above the national average24% vs 21.3% national.
- Driver out-of-service rate roughly double the national average8.8% vs 5.5% national.
- Reported crashes on the public record5 reported crashes.
Why this grade
5 open findings · ranked by litigation exposure weight
An overdue annual query on a driver with a known prior drug/alcohol violation is the textbook negligent-retention exhibit: the carrier had actual notice and stopped monitoring. Plaintiff argues conscious indifference, a punitive-damages opening, even though the file otherwise looks clean.
Each lapsed MVR review is a modest audit item, but the pattern is the story: a carrier that passes its paperwork audit yet stopped watching its drivers' records firm-wide. Plaintiff frames it as a system, not an oversight: the exact gap between a passing audit and real exposure.
Unreconciled unassigned driving lets a plaintiff's expert argue the carrier cannot account for who was behind the wheel, and seeds a fatigue theory the moment a crash involves hours-of-service.
The federal letter rating is years old and says nothing about litigation risk. Above-average roadside out-of-service rates are exactly the public, jury-accessible data a plaintiff uses to argue the carrier knew its equipment and drivers were a problem: a negligent-retention narrative the Satisfactory rating papers over.
Skipping the 3-year prior-employer safety investigation means the carrier never asked whether these drivers had a documented history elsewhere: the 'they should have known' inference that anchors negligent hiring.
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