What CarrierTrail does
A broker enters a carrier’s USDOT or MC number. CarrierTrail pulls the carrier’s public FMCSA records together with their dates: identity, operating authority, insurance filings, inspections and crashes, and contact details. The team records its decision with a note, and approved carriers go on a watchlist that is checked every day, so a change in authority, insurance, safety or contact details lands in a review queue instead of being missed.
What makes CarrierTrail different
Monitoring from $49 a month
Starter is $49 a month for 500 monitored carriers and 2 workspace members; Team is $99 for 5,000 carriers and 5 members. For comparison, Carrier411 starts at $99 a month, Carrier Assure Premium is $149 a month for one account, fleetfax Pro is due to open at $69 a month for 500 carriers, and Highway sells through a demo. Prices as published on 30 Sep 2026. CarrierTrail pricing.
Sign up and pay online, same day
No demo call and no annual contract: choose a plan, pay by card and start. Cancel from Billing and access runs to the end of the paid month.
A date on every value
Every census, authority, insurance and safety value shows the date its FMCSA source was published. A failed or stale check is shown as unavailable, never as a clean result.
Decisions saved with their evidence
When your team approves or rejects a carrier, CarrierTrail keeps the records it saw at that moment with the note. See decision evidence.
65,953 free public carrier profiles
Each with an authority timeline, required and filed BIPD, shared phone and address counts, safety summary and dated change history. Browse the carrier directory.
Who CarrierTrail is for
Freight brokerages
Carrier sales and compliance teams that vet new carriers before tendering and need to know when an approved carrier changes.
Freight agents
Agents booking under a brokerage who want their own watchlist and a record of why a carrier was used.
Carrier compliance and onboarding staff
People who check authority, insurance filings and contact details at onboarding and hand the file to the next reviewer.
Small and mid-size broker teams
Teams of 2 to 5 reviewers who need one shared watchlist rather than a spreadsheet and an inbox.
The team behind CarrierTrail
Emmanuel Badu
Managing Director
Emmanuel runs CarrierTrail alongside Ledger Road, DOT compliance software for trucking companies, and MCS-150 Update, a tracker for the biennial registration update. The three products share one idea: FMCSA publishes a great deal of useful data, but it is spread across datasets, dated inconsistently and easy to misread. CarrierTrail applies that work to the broker’s side of the load: checking a carrier before booking and watching it afterwards.
The same team builds and supports MCS-150 Update.
Stephanie Bane
Product Manager
Decides what CarrierTrail checks and how it works: which FMCSA datasets feed carrier profiles and monitoring, how changes reach the review queue, and how the workspace, directories and free tools behave.
5 years of experience in product management
Kenny Korsah
Account Executive
Works with freight brokerages and agents choosing between Starter and Team, and with teams moving an existing carrier list or spreadsheet into a workspace.
10 years of experience in sales and account management
Rita More
Technical Account Manager
Helps teams get set up and stay set up: importing carrier lists, change alerts and workspace access, and looking into reports that a carrier’s details look wrong.
4 years of experience in technical account management
Independent of FMCSA
CarrierTrail is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or the U.S. Department of Transportation, and it is not FMCSA’s SAFER system. The official Company Snapshot is free at safer.fmcsa.dot.gov. We read the same public datasets, show when each was published, and keep history the official snapshot does not. CarrierTrail does not certify carriers or insurance coverage, and it never labels a business fraudulent; your team makes the decision. See data sources and methodology.
Research
Read our freight carrier statistics and research → National figures on operating authority, insurance filings, roadside out-of-service rates, safety ratings and shared contact details, measured from our daily FMCSA imports.
Photo credits
Home page photos from Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License: office by Israel Andrade and trailers at a loading dock by Tom Jackson. The Carrier411 comparison photo is from Pexels, used under the Pexels License: refrigerated trailers at a dock by Tom Jackson. Trailer brand markings are blurred. Dashboard images are illustrative examples.