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 Cuevas could own that choice. These are the public red flags a reasonable vetting process would have surfaced first.
- Conditional FMCSA safety ratingA federal compliance review found this carrier's safety management deficient.
- Vehicle out-of-service rate roughly double the national average41.2% vs 21.3% national.
- Driver out-of-service rate roughly double the national average14% vs 5.5% national.
- Fatal crash on the public record6 reported crashes including 1 fatal.
Why this grade
7 open findings · ranked by litigation exposure weight
Drivers who are not medically certified are, by regulation, not qualified to operate a CMV. Every mile after the lapse is a knowing dispatch of an unqualified driver: direct negligent-entrustment support and a punitive hook, multiplied across two drivers.
The pre-employment drug test is a federal precondition to safety-sensitive work. Its absence across most recent hires makes a negligent-hiring case nearly self-proving and reads as a carrier that doesn't run the program at all.
An out-of-service vehicle back on the road without a certified repair is the cleanest unfit-equipment exhibit there is: the carrier put a truck the government pulled back into service without fixing it.
An official Conditional rating is the single strongest public data point a plaintiff has: a federal agency, after a compliance review, concluded this carrier's safety controls fall short. It anchors negligent hiring, retention, and entrustment, and a broker who tendered a load to a Conditional carrier post-Montgomery owns that choice.
Missing DQ files mean the carrier cannot show it verified its drivers were qualified before dispatch: a foundational failure that supports negligent hiring, entrustment, and supervision at once.
Operating units past their required annual inspection is direct unfit-equipment evidence. Across four units it stops looking like an oversight and starts looking like a maintenance program that doesn't exist.
Out-of-service rates this far above the norm are public, easily charted, and devastating in front of a jury: direct evidence of an unfit fleet operated by unfit drivers, mile after mile.
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