Vet the other side of every load — without leaving your inbox.

It reads the MC or DOT number in the email you're looking at and pulls the live FMCSA record for that entity. For carriers you get operating authority and status, insurance on file versus required, safety rating, out-of-service rates versus the national average, and fleet size — rolled into a Keelway Trust Score with red-flag alerts. For brokers you get authority status and BMC-84/BMC-85 bond status: whether a bond is on file and its amount against the $75,000 FMCSA minimum. Plus a one-click legitimacy screen for a shipper's domain.

No. Freight Check scans the message body locally, in your browser, for MC and DOT number patterns — nothing more. Your email content, the sender's address, and the rest of the page never leave your machine. The only thing sent to Keelway is the specific MC number, DOT number, or domain you actively look up. The shipper check is user-initiated only; it never runs on its own.

Not yet — it's a legitimacy screen, not a credit score. Payment-history scores are coming in Credit Pro. The shipper check confirms a company looks like a real, operating business — domain age, web presence, and an FMCSA match where one exists — so you can spot an obviously fake or throwaway counterparty. It does not tell you whether a shipper pays its bills on time. Legitimacy screen — not a credit score. Payment-history scores coming in Credit Pro.

Yes. Inside Gmail it spots MC and DOT numbers automatically as you read. Anywhere else on the web — a load board, a broker's site, a PDF in your browser — highlight a number or company name, right-click, and run the same lookup. No number is ever transmitted unless you hover on it in Gmail or click the right-click lookup yourself.

Your first 10 lookups are free — no credit card, no account. After that it's $4.99/month for unlimited lookups, cancel anytime. Pick broker mode (you vet carriers) or carrier mode (you vet brokers) when you install; you can switch anytime, and both personas are included in the one price.

Carrier and broker data comes from the FMCSA's public QCMobile database; shipper legitimacy signals come from public DNS and RDAP. Keelway is not affiliated with or endorsed by FMCSA. We surface public government data in a faster, more readable place — we don't originate, certify, or endorse it.

Because FMCSA's free API doesn't publish them. FMCSA never exposes a broker's surety company, the bond's effective date, or a carrier's authority grant date through the public feed we read, so those fields render as an em dash — with a note, rather than a guessed value. We'd rather show you a truthful blank than a fabricated date. Everything else on the card is a live read of the real record.