FreightGrid captures tamper-evident, hash-bound, contemporaneous records of every carrier selection decision your brokerage makes — composing whatever data sources you trust into a single defensible legal asset. Not another vetting platform. Not another scoring engine. The records layer.
The federal preemption shield is gone. Brokers can now be sued in state court for negligent selection of motor carriers. The Court did not define the standard of care — that will be tested, load by load, in depositions and jury trials over the coming decade.
Defense lawyers are now uniform on the operational response: contemporaneous documentation of every carrier selection decision is the broker's litigation defense. The vetting record produced before the load moves is the evidence at trial three years later. A reconstructed story from recollection is not.
FreightGrid is not a vetting platform, a scoring engine, or a carrier intelligence database. We do not compete with Highway, DAT, Tea Technologies, or Bluewire. We compose them — and the federal FMCSA baseline — into a single contemporaneous, hash-bound legal record per load.
FMCSA is the baseline. Plug in whatever commercial sources you already pay for — Highway, DAT, Tea, Bluewire, GenLogs, your internal blacklists. We don't resell their data. We capture what each one returns at the moment of selection.
Each rep sees the composed view at the moment of carrier selection. They apply your written policy. If a threshold is crossed, they capture the override rationale and the named approver. We don't decide for them — we document what they decided.
Every Vetting Event is SHA-256 hashed at capture, bound to your written policy version, and written to an append-only audit log. No path exists to modify it after the fact. When the subpoena arrives, you produce the record.
Your data sources have commercial interest in their own carrier networks. Your TMS has commercial interest in keeping you using their workflow. The records of your decisions cannot be defensibly maintained by parties with skin in the game.
Three tiers. Records are the product across all of them. Choose the level of data composition and operational tooling that fits your brokerage.
A vetting record produced contemporaneously is the broker's defense. A vetting story reconstructed from recollection is not. The window to put records infrastructure in place is the window before the first subpoena.