DILIGENCE
Vetting is a checkpoint. Diligence is the investigation.
Montgomery removed the federal shield: a broker can now be sued under state law when a carrier it hired causes harm, and the case turns on what the broker knew or should have known. The question is no longer "did you check" but "show me how you vetted this carrier."
Confirms who you are dealing with.
Identity, authority, insurance on file. Necessary. Not sufficient.
Finds everything the record and the road can tell you.
Its ties to other carriers, to its drivers, to its physical locations, and the signs of chameleon or fraudulent activity that a lookup never surfaces.
Look it up yourself. Or have it investigated, signed, and timestamped.
Diligence Search
Describe the carrier in plain words. Narrow by the facts on record: state, fleet, crashes, insurance, authority. When the record shows a risk, the result says so, in the record's own words.
Certified Diligence Report
An investigator scours the record and the road, documents what is found, and locks it into a cryptographically signed Merkle chain with a public timestamp. A patent-pending process.
Filings show what a carrier says. Drivers see what it does.
Who runs which yard. Which trailers move under which name.
Diligence starts with everything public: FMCSA registration, authority, insurance, inspection, and crash records; corporate filings; court records; the addresses, phones, and officers that tie one carrier to another.
Drivers are our ace in the hole. Our relationship to drivers, through our driver founder and her advocacy work with the T.A.T.T.O.O. Foundation, gives us an inside look from the boots on the ground: the people who tell us the truth about what the filings hide.
Not a database. A memory of the industry that cannot be quietly rewritten.
Every carrier held by meaning, not just by number. The state of every record signed, every day.
One report. The whole investigation.
- Entity legitimacy and claimant identity
- Full chameleon investigation: shared officers, addresses, phones, prior authorities
- Expanded open-source intelligence, plus the driver record
- Signed by Carso, time-stamped by two independent authorities, verifiable by anyone from the public log. Patent-pending.
- Silver, $1,999/mo: one report a month included
- Platinum, $3,299/mo: three a month included
- More at $325 each, never discounted
Litigation support and expert declarations are quoted separately. Volume or a question first: (415) 216-9897.
What does "signed and timestamped" mean?
Every record is fingerprinted (SHA-256) and built into a daily Merkle tree. Each day's root is time-stamped by two independent public authorities (FreeTSA and DigiCert) under RFC 3161 and signed by Carso: the authorities attest when, Carso attests who.
What if no one ran a report on the day I booked the carrier?
Use the look-back. The Cortex is a look-back tool, signed daily: for any day since 21 September 2026 it shows what the record held that day and proves it has not been altered, whether or not a report was ordered.
Is a CDR a defense?
It is the documented record of your diligence, dated before the load moved. Whether it satisfies a court is a question for your counsel. What it removes is the argument that you did not look.
Does diligence score carriers?
No. It finds facts and shows their sources. Where a fact points to a risk, the report says so in plain words and shows the record behind it.
What is patent-pending?
The process by which a report is composed, signed, chained, and publicly time-stamped so it can be verified by anyone later. A provisional application is on file with the USPTO.