Steve Talamo and Clint Abernathy run Cleve's Logistics, a two-truck fleet serving the ports in South Carolina with just a few years of authority behind it. As such, when they play on the spot market, they're subject to brokers' "carrier vetting" craze -- judged by circumstances out of their control, like how many roadside inspections they've received (none in Cleve's case for the last two years).
That's been the experience of untold numbers of owner-operators and other small carriers recently, but unlike most, when Cleve's Logistics gets vetted by a broker, they fire right back with vetting of their own using the FreightValidate service.
