Is the truck that showed up the carrier you booked?
Enter the MC on the rate confirmation and the MC or USDOT on the truck. The result is one of three sentences, straight from FMCSA records: the same registration, two registrations that share a public-record contact, or two registrations with nothing shared.
What this check cannot tell you
Not covered
- Whether the person on the phone works for either company.
- Whether the truck is the one on the insurance certificate.
- Whether a load was re-brokered. FMCSA records do not show that.
Do this anyway
- Call the carrier back on the main phone number its FMCSA record lists, not the one on the email. A filed number does not prove who answers, so ask for the load details you already hold.
- Check the VIN on the truck against the insurance certificate before loading.
- Keep a dated snapshot of what you saw with the load file.