A carrier grade you can open up and check.
TruScore reads authority, insurance, safety and fleet evidence and returns one letter. Click any factor and you are looking at the FMCSA records it was built from, not a black box.
The six factors behind the letter.
Each one carries its own sub grade and a one line reason. Clicking it opens the evidence drawer with the records underneath.
How long the carrier has held authority, how many times it has lapsed, whether an out of service order has been issued, and whether authority has ever been revoked.
Whether liability is on file now, how often the filing has changed, how many cancellations appear in the history, and whether coverage is verified or unverified.
Vehicle and driver out of service rates against the national average, crashes over 24 months, inspection volume, and whether the record is recent enough to trust.
Distinct VINs observed in inspection records, decoded against NHTSA for make, model and year, compared with the power units the carrier reports.
Low, caution or high, based on address and phone shared with other carriers, weighted toward links with revoked or inactive operations.
Whether a carrier's reported size is supported by its roadside footprint. A fail requires corroboration from more than one signal before it is raised.
It says Not Rated when it does not know.
A carrier registered last week has no roadside record, no insurance history and no tenure. Scoring it anyway would produce a number that looks like information and is not. TruScore returns Not Rated instead, and private fleets are marked PF rather than graded on a scale built for for hire carriers.
- NR where the underlying record is too thin to grade
- PF for private fleets, which run their own freight and are not carriers for hire
- An A grade requires full enrichment coverage, so a thin record cannot top the scale
- Reconstructed CSA percentiles are shown on the record but excluded from the calculation
Hard caps stop a clean sheet hiding a serious problem.
Weighted averages have a known failure: enough good factors will drown one disqualifying one. TruScore applies ceilings instead, so a revoked carrier or an active out of service order cannot be averaged back into a passing grade.
- Revoked authority caps the score well below a pass
- An active out of service order applies its own ceiling
- A high chameleon signal caps the grade regardless of the rest
- A corroborated paper carrier failure caps it too
Answered up front.
Is TruScore a credit score?
Is it predictive?
What is chameleon risk?
Why do so many carriers show Not Rated?
Does the grade change over time?
Truckscribe is built on FMCSA public records and other commercial business sources. It is business information for sales and vendor decisions, not a consumer report. How we handle data
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