For freight brokers
To be upfront: CarrierKYC's product, Verified Payee, is built and priced for freight factoring companies, not brokers. If you need carrier onboarding software for a brokerage, tools like Highway, RMIS and MyCarrierPortal are built for you, and our comparison pages describe them fairly.
Our free tools and guides are open to anyone, and brokers face many of the same impostors factors do: fake carriers, hijacked real ones and bank-change emails that redirect payment.
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“Is this carrier who they say they are?”
Run the USDOT or MC number through the free carrier risk check: authority age, revocations, insurance, out-of-service orders, and other carriers sharing the same phone, email or address. Then read how to tell if a carrier is legit.
02
“A carrier emailed new bank details. How do I know it's real?”
Follow the remit-change checklist: call back on a number you already had, never one in the email, and confirm with the carrier's factor if an NOA is on file.
03
“Two factors sent NOAs for the same carrier. Who do I pay?”
Read two NOAs, one carrier and the notice of assignment guide, then talk to counsel before you pay either.
04
“Is the MC number going away with Motus?”
Not yet. Retiring MC numbers needs a future rulemaking. See is the MC number going away? and FMCSA Motus explained.
The same fraud reaches both of you. A hijacked carrier that books your load can factor the invoice too, and a fake bank-change email can be aimed at a broker's payables team as easily as at a factor. Free tools that help you spot it make the whole chain safer, including for the factors we build for.
Our comparison pages describe the broker-side vendors from their own published material, with what each is best at: Highway, RMIS, MyCarrierPackets, Carrier Assure and Carrier411.
When a carrier factors its invoices, the NOA tells you to pay the factor, and a release letter tells you when that stops. If you pay through Triumph's network, Triumph says brokers and factors can check the factor of record in its portal. When in doubt, call the factor on a number you looked up yourself. See double brokering from the factor's side for how factors see these disputes.
Live FMCSA data
Carrier risk check →
Enter a USDOT or MC number. See authority age, revocations, insurance, out-of-service orders, and other carriers sharing the same phone, email, or address.
Checklist
Bank-change verification checklist →
The step-by-step SOP for verifying a carrier's remit-to or bank-account change before any money moves. Score your process and print it.
Generator
NOA & release letter generator →
Fill in the parties and get a clean notice of assignment or letter of release, ready to print or send. Free, no signup.
Not today. Verified Payee is built and priced for factoring companies. The free tools are open to everyone.
Yes. It reads public FMCSA data, and each fact shows its source dataset and an as-of date. Results aren't published as indexable pages.
Yes. Brokers have USDOT and MC numbers too. See how to verify a freight broker for what to look at beyond the record.
For factoring companies
CarrierKYC verifies that the person onboarding controls the carrier and that the bank account belongs to it, then re-verifies every remit-to change before the next ACH. Free 60-day pilot for small factors.
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The Freight Identity Risk Report
New authorities, revocations, insurance cancellations, and shared-contact clusters from FMCSA data, every month. One email. Unsubscribe in one click.