Carrier vetting with a documented, verifiable record.

On May 14, 2026, the United States Supreme Court held in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC that a negligent-selection claim of the type before it falls within the FAAAA motor-vehicle safety exception. The ruling addressed federal preemption; it did not create a universal carrier-vetting checklist.

BrokerDefender exists to make that duty practical. We pull live FMCSA data for any registered carrier, apply BrokerDefender's documented operational risk policy, and generate a timestamped, cryptographically-hashed packet that documents your diligence at the moment of dispatch.

We are not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice. We do provide a defensible paper trail — the kind a defense attorney can hand a judge.

Data source

All carrier data comes directly from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), via the public QCMobile API at mobile.fmcsa.dot.gov. We do not modify the underlying data — we evaluate it using the published BrokerDefender methodology.

Coverage

BrokerDefender returns data for every active FMCSA-registered entity — interstate, intrastate-only, private, for-hire, brand-new authorities, recently revoked authorities. We do not filter the carrier universe. The carriers most likely to expose you to selection risk are often the ones that require the clearest documented review.