GV Scan Launches — Free Carrier and Broker Intelligence for the Industry

The freight industry has an information asymmetry problem. Large brokerages and enterprise shippers pay thousands per month for carrier intelligence platforms. Small carriers and independent brokers get nothing — or they get stale data from free sources that haven't been updated in weeks.

GV Scan changes that. We've built a carrier and broker intelligence platform powered by 31.9 million FMCSA federal records, and we're giving the basic tier away for free.

Carrier scans run 34 peer-normalized safety signals across authority status, insurance verification, SMS BASICs, crash history, inspection outcomes, and fleet profiling. The key differentiator is peer normalization: a 50-truck carrier's crash rate is compared against other carriers with 40–60 trucks, not against mega-fleets with thousands of units. This eliminates the statistical distortion that makes raw FMCSA numbers misleading for smaller carriers.

Broker scans verify active authority, check bond status and history, analyze revocation and reinstatement patterns, and score longevity. Carriers can see exactly who they're hauling for — and whether that broker has a history of bond issues or authority lapses.

The tiered access model makes GV Scan sustainable without locking out the people who need it most. Guest users get 5 scans per week with no account required. Registered users (free) get 25 scans per day plus access to the DataQ Challenge Assistant. Pro subscribers ($5/month or $29/year) get unlimited scans, unlimited DataQ challenges, and active monitoring of changes to their FMCSA records — think credit monitoring, but for your safety profile.

Every scan pulls live data from the FMCSA SODA API, cross-referenced against our locally indexed database of census records, authority history, insurance filings, and safety performance data updated nightly.

GV Scan is available now at guardianviz.com with full Spanish-language support.