Carrier vetting & onboarding for freight brokers

Vet every carrier against live FMCSA data — and prove you did.

Flag double-brokering risk, lapsed authority, and brand-new registrations before a load moves, onboard carriers in minutes, and keep a time-stamped record of exactly how you checked each one — the proof you did your due diligence if a load gets stolen or a claim lands.

Instant red / yellow / green verdict. No signup to run a check. Or start free →

First year with your authority? Draylo walks you through every step — guided tours, plain-English answers while you work — and builds your record while you learn. Start with the New Broker’s Playbook →

Built on the full FMCSA census

112,665 active broker authorities

3,107,239 registered carriers

Every carrier re-checked daily

Proof you can show

Every approve/deny is saved with the FMCSA data and documents you saw at the time — a time-stamped record that can't be edited later. If a claim or a stolen load ever comes back on you, you can show exactly how you vetted them.

Checked against your minimums

Every COI and W-9 is read and checked against your own insurance minimums and load-type requirements — the coverage-reading the enterprise onboarding suites do, without the enterprise price or setup.

Warned before coverage drops

Draylo re-checks FMCSA daily and flags revoked authority, out-of-service orders, and lapsed insurance — and when an insurer files to cancel a carrier's coverage, you get advance warning weeks before it actually drops. Those filings are public but buried in a separate federal system nobody checks by hand — Draylo watches it daily so you don't have to.

How it works

1

Vet

Enter a USDOT number for a live FMCSA pull and a red / yellow / green verdict against the rules you set. The verdict informs — the booking call stays yours.

2

Onboard

Send a clean, no-login link — the carrier uploads their COI and W-9 and e-signs. Every field is read and checked automatically. (On Growth and up, carrier-facing pages carry your logo and colors.)

3

Decide

Approve or deny — with a required note when there are flags. Each decision is saved as a time-stamped record that can't be changed after the fact.

4

Monitor

Draylo re-checks FMCSA daily, reminds you before a COI expires, and warns you when an insurer files to cancel a carrier's coverage — weeks before it drops. A carrier can't quietly go bad after you approved them.

For new brokers

New authority? Do it right from load one.

Your first months are where habits form. Draylo teaches the vetting workflow while you work it — and every step lands on your permanent record, so learning it right and being able to prove you did are the same motion. No compliance department required.

Tours that walk you through it

Pick “Walk me through it” and do each real step yourself — type the USDOT, run the vet, read the verdict — with the tour moving as you go. Or just watch with “Show me around.”

Answers while you work

Ask Draylo, the in-app help chat, explains any feature or industry-standard workflow in plain English — why a COI isn’t proof of coverage, what a verdict flag means. It informs; every call stays yours.

The New Broker’s Playbook

Free step-by-step walkthroughs with real screenshots — vetting your first carrier, reading the verdict, checking insurance the right way. The workflow, taught in the order you’ll live it.

For established brokers — enterprise depth, small-broker price

Everything you already do off the record — on the record.

Been running carriers a while? Then you already vet: a SAFER lookup, a COI eyeballed as a PDF, a driver texting a photo of the truck. It works — until a claim asks you to prove it, and the proof is scattered across a text thread. Draylo runs those same checks properly: it reads each COI and W-9 — limits, dates, endorsements, named insured — against your minimums and load-type rules, matches them to FMCSA, and saves the whole thing as a dated record you can show later. It’s the depth the enterprise onboarding platforms charge $500+/mo for, starting at $49 — no portal rollout, no per-seat contract, and a free instant check before you ever sign up.

And the stakes are clearer than they used to be: in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport (2026), a unanimous Supreme Court held that brokers can be sued in state court for negligent carrier selection. The standard is “ordinary care” — and the brokers who defend from strength are the ones who can show a documented selection process. Your insurance market is moving the same direction: many shipper contracts already spell out carrier-selection requirements — check yours — and it’s worth asking your E&O or contingent-cargo broker what documentation they’d want to see at renewal. Whether the question comes from a courtroom, an underwriter, or a customer, a dated record of what you checked and why is the answer.

Not legal advice — the ruling is public; review it with your own counsel.

Reads the actual COI

Coverage limits, endorsements, and dates are extracted from the certificate itself and checked — not assumed from a status flag.

Held to your rules

Every carrier is judged against your minimums and load-type coverage profiles, with low-confidence fields sent to a human to confirm.

On the record

What was read, what was checked, and your decision are saved together in a dated, tamper-evident record — every record is hashed the instant it's written, then chained and independently timestamped daily, and anyone can verify one at draylo.us/verify-record. The difference between saying you were careful and being able to show it.

Plans that grow with your book

The vetting, onboarding, and audit-trail engine is on every paid tier — every carrier always clears the base check, and every plan can share proof. You pay more for scale, seats, and how many deeper per-load checks you want to layer on your riskier freight.

Starts at $49/mo — below what most small brokers already pay a standalone checker, with document reading and a dated record built in.

Starter

$49/mo

25 monitored carriers · 2 seats

  • USDOT vetting with a red / yellow / green verdict
  • Import your existing carrier list from CSV or Excel
  • Carrier onboarding — COI & W-9 upload, e-sign
  • Automatic COI/W-9 reading, with a review step
  • A saved record of every decision + PDF export
  • Shareable audit link per carrier — send proof to shippers & insurers, free on every plan
  • Daily FMCSA checks + COI-expiry reminders
  • Advance alert when an insurer files to cancel coverage
  • Flags contact details shared with unrelated carriers — a stolen-identity tell
  • 25 deeper checks/mo for riskier loads — verify the truck at the dock (VIN + CDL photo link), call the contact FMCSA has on file, extra scrutiny on brand-new carriers
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Growth

$149/mo

150 monitored carriers · 8 seats

  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • One screen showing every carrier that needs attention
  • Automatic re-checks + alerts on stale reviews
  • Reefer / hazmat / high-value rule presets
  • Manager sign-off on approvals over flags
  • Carrier relationship view — last contact, notes, full history, and dormant/re-check cues
  • Your logo & color on carrier-facing pages
  • 250 deeper per-load checks/mo — layer them on your riskier freight
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Pro

$349/mo

500 monitored carriers · 20 seats

  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • Book-wide compliance report — one branded PDF for your insurer at renewal
  • Coverage rules by load type (reefer, high-value…) with continuous gap analysis across your whole book
  • 1,000 deeper per-load checks/mo
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Scale

$749/mo

Unlimited monitored carriers · Unlimited seats

  • Everything in Pro, plus:
  • API access to pull your data into your own tools
  • CSV export ready for AscendTMS, Tai, Rose Rocket, BrokerPro
  • SSO and data-retention controls
  • Dedicated onboarding & priority support
  • Unlimited deeper per-load checks
Start free

Carrier limits count carriers under active monitoring — retire a carrier and the slot frees up. Deeper per-load checks are optional add-on verifications for riskier freight. The free carrier check is always free — no account needed.

See a carrier's risk in seconds.

Run any USDOT number against live FMCSA data — free, no signup — then start onboarding when you're ready.