This new product allows freight brokers, shippers and insurance providers to use real-time data to analyze motor carrier performance and make more informed business choices, Vigillo says.
“Freight brokers, shippers and insurers have become increasingly concerned with monitoring the insurance, operating authority, safety rating and CSA safety performance of their motor carrier partners,” says Steven G. Bryan, CEO of Vigillo. “Carrier Select taps into critical database sources to give them real-time visibility into the ever-changing landscape of a carrier’s overall safety and risk profile.
“There is no other product that provides up-to-the-minute information, user and community configurable rules and tags and social infrastructure at such a low cost.”
The Carrier Select application is pre-populated with information on more than 1.2 million motor carriers in the FMCSA Census database, Vigillo says. A key differentiator of the product is it’s real-time, across the board updates to information on a carrier’s insurance status, operating authority and safety performance, including CSA.
According to Vigillo, Carrier Select provides tools to set selection criteria through rules, filters and tags, as well as geo-location features. Users can create a “My Carrier” list and control the parameters they use to monitor and evaluate motor carrier partners. Among the analysis capabilities are carrier type, location and CSA scores for each BASIC. With Carrier Select, brokers, insurers and shippers decide what data they feel is important to monitor and define and will receive reports if that data falls outside an acceptable range, Vigillo says.
“The ease of access to safety data, insurance history and operating authority information, and the ability to set custom parameters in Carrier Select provides real value. We are excited to begin using the program,” says Thomas Dickmeyer, CEO of Cline Wood Agency, Inc., a national provider of insurance and risk management products and services to the transportation industry.
