ComparisonCarrier Assure vs Market Tracker

One grades the carrier.
The other finds it.

Carrier Assure answers a broker’s or shipper’s question: is this trucking company reliable and safe to load? It reads the DOT and SAFER record and returns a letter grade. Market Tracker answers a producer’s question: which trucking companies need insurance this month, and what will the underwriter see? The two overlap on the safety record and diverge everywhere else. Here is how they fit.

Feature by feature

Where they match,
where they differ.

Both read the public FMCSA and SAFER record. Carrier Assure compresses it into a performance grade for vetting a carrier you already have; Market Tracker watches the whole register for market entry and keeps the underwriting detail explicit.

Option A
Carrier Assure
Option B
Market Tracker
Built for
Freight brokers, shippers, carriers; insurance brokers and producers as a secondary audience
Trucking insurance producers, MGAs, wholesalers and underwriters
Core output
A performance score with an A-to-F letter grade per carrier; reports flagging double-brokering risk and rising stars
Leads (who needs coverage), the carrier file (what the underwriter will see) and the Watch List (what changed)
Pricing
published, september 2026
On carrierassure.com/pricing; not restated here
$99/user/mo, or $69/user/mo yearly
Finding carriers
Search and vet a carrier you already have
Every market-entry signal on 4.4M USDOTs: filed cancellations, lapsed filings, new authority, reinstatements, renewal X-dates
Safety
the overlap
Algorithmic performance grade from DOT/FMCSA and SAFER data
BASICs, crashes, inspections and OOS rates shown explicitly, plus a loss-risk tier with the factors itemised and an ISS estimate
Insurance filings
Not the focus
Current BI/PD filing, full filing history, insurer switches and tenure, filed cancellation dates
Contacts
—
MOTUS registration emails and phones, marked verified or unverified
ACORD forms
—
Prefilled ACORD 125 / 129 from any DOT number
Monitoring
Carrier vetting at the point of use
Watch List with a daily change digest on your whole book
Fraud & identity
they are ahead here
Double-brokering and fraud-risk flags for the freight side
Chameleon-carrier signals from shared identifiers; not a freight-fraud product
AI access
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MCP connector: query any carrier from Claude / ChatGPT
the right tool for loading a truck; a different job from writing its insurance

FOOTNOTE   Carrier Assure details are taken from carrierassure.com’s public pages as of September 2, 2026, and may change. Carrier Assure is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Native Base. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@nativebase.ai and we will fix it.

The parts nobody puts in a table

Try the data first.
On a carrier you know.

The right move is the same regardless of vendor: put a carrier you know into each product and compare the file. Ours you can start right now, with no call and no demo booking. Enter a USDOT and get the free carrier report:

Free, forever

Before you pay anyone

  • ✓Public carrier directory: insurance, authority & safety per USDOT
  • ✓USDOT insurance lookup, X-date lookup, ISS checker
  • ✓ACORD 125/126 autofill from a DOT number
  • ✓Carrier insurance & authority monitor with email alerts
From $69/user/mo

When you want the whole market

  • ✓Carriers shopping for coverage this week: lapsed, cancelled, new authority
  • ✓Filed cancellation dates, estimated X-dates, risk tiers & ISS on 4.4M carriers
  • ✓Watch your book: daily change digest + saved-search alerts
  • ✓MCP connector: ask about any carrier inside Claude or ChatGPT
FAQ

Carrier Assure or Market Tracker, answered.

What is a Carrier Assure score?

As described on carrierassure.com in September 2026, it is a performance score with an A-to-F letter grade produced by algorithmic analysis of DOT/FMCSA and SAFER data, built so freight brokers and shippers can vet a carrier’s reliability, safety compliance and operational stability, and spot double-brokering risk.

Does Market Tracker have a carrier score?

Yes, two, and both are shown with their inputs rather than as a single letter. The loss-risk tier (Low to Severe) is computed from the safety rating, out-of-service rates, BASIC measures and 24-month crashes, with the factors itemised. The ISS estimate reconstructs FMCSA’s Inspection Selection System band (Inspect / Optional / Pass) from the published algorithm. Carriers without enough data are marked Unrated, never Low.

Do I need both?

If you broker freight, Carrier Assure is built for that decision. If you write trucking insurance, Market Tracker is built for finding the accounts, vetting them the way an underwriter will, and watching the book. An agency that does both may run both; they do not replace each other.

Can I check a carrier free before paying for either?

Yes. Native Base’s public carrier directory shows the federal record for any USDOT free, and the free underwriter-view tool shows the decline reasons an underwriter would see. Market Tracker adds the leads, contacts, exact X-dates, risk tiers and monitoring.

The practical next step

Grade the carriers you have.
Find the ones you do not.

Start the trial, open Leads, and see which carriers in your state went to market this week. The safety record is on every one of them.

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