The numbers behind carrier risk.

Cited stats, primary sources, and the terms worth knowing before you underwrite, fund, or book a load.

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The State of Carrier Risk

The cited numbers behind modern freight liability: crash cost, verdict growth, cargo fraud, and the long tail of small carriers where screening matters most.

$14.6M

Average comprehensive cost of a single fatal large-truck crash.

FMCSA · 2022
+967%

Growth in average trucking verdict size, 2010 to 2018.

ATRI · 2020
$6.6B

Annual cost of cargo theft and freight fraud, over $18M every day.

ATRI · 2025
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What is a reincarnated carrier?

The plain-English explainer: how a carrier shuts down under one DOT number and re-registers under another, and how FleetRize catches the family resemblance.

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FMCSA data, explained

What BASICS, out-of-service rates, and authority statuses actually mean, and how FleetRize builds on top of them.

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