New Entrant Audit Check
A document check for the FMCSA new entrant safety audit
Sample report — fictional carrier & documents — prepared for demonstration only

Sample report

What a read hands back

This is a complete, real-shaped report, run on an invented carrier so you can see the form of the thing before you trust anyone with your own paper. Bluebonnet Box Truck LLC does not exist. Its file was built with the defects real files have, and the report treats it exactly the way your file would be treated.

In order

The document is present, signed where it needs to be, in date, and under the right name.

Needs fixing

Something is off that you can put right: a missing note, a name that does not match, a record pulled late.

Automatic-failure item

The finding touches one of the sixteen violations in §385.321(b). These are the ones that end audits, and every one of them in a real report is reviewed by a person before delivery.

A fourth outcome matters just as much: not read. If a document is not in what you sent, the report says it was not read. It is never shown as fine.

Inside the sample

Eight problems in an ordinary-looking file

The carrier

Bluebonnet Box Truck LLC of Fort Worth, Texas (fictional): an interstate property carrier, two power units, two trailers, two drivers, about seven months into its first year when this report was prepared. A normal small fleet, on paper.

What the read found

  • A driver application with no signature on it
  • A medical certificate already expired
  • A hire MVR pulled after the 30-day window
  • An annual review with no signed, dated note
  • No random pool roster behind the consortium letter
  • A trailer annual inspection out of date
  • No accident register at all
  • An MCS-90 endorsement whose policy number does not match the declarations

The report itself says it plainly, and so do we: the carrier, both drivers, the insurer, all policy numbers, the USDOT number shown, addresses, and every date and document described are fictional and were invented to show the form of a real report. Any resemblance to a real carrier is coincidental. It is not a customer result, and no customer’s report is ever published.

Your file, read the same way

The pilot is $199 for one carrier’s complete read: the flags report, the assembled packet, and the same plain verdicts, read from your actual documents.