The Authorized Recovery Trust Network™ for U.S. trucking. Every cap is FMCSA-verified, insurance-confirmed, and safety-rated — so brokers dispatch emergency capacity in minutes, with a paper trail that holds up to scrutiny. No phone trees. No gouging. Just trucks rolling.
Negligent-selection liability is rising for brokers. Insurers, shippers, and courts are increasingly asking the same question when a load goes sideways: How did you pick this carrier? "We needed a truck fast" is no longer an acceptable answer.
CapMates is built so every recovery you dispatch is defensible. Every cap in the network passes a federal-grade verification stack — and every match comes with the audit trail to prove it.
Active common or contract authority, checked live against the federal QCMobile API at signup and continuously thereafter.
BIPD liability coverage at or above the federal minimum — confirmed directly from FMCSA filings, not self-reported.
Out-of-service status and FMCSA safety ratings checked. Carriers flagged Unsatisfactory or under OOS orders never enter the network.
Every match comes with a timestamped record of who was verified, when, and why they qualified — ready for your file.
Brokers cold-call their rolodex. Dispatchers scramble. Drivers sit. Receivers cancel. And the recovery carrier who finally picks up? They often charge whatever they want — and the broker who hired them owns whatever happens next.
Federal courts are tightening negligent-selection liability for emergency carrier picks. “We needed a truck fast” is no longer a defensible answer when a shipper asks why you chose this carrier.
Average broker scramble time for a recovery load
Avg. premium recovery carriers demand over fair market
Brokers say recovery is their single most painful workflow
Verified national directories with audit-trailed carrier selection — until now
Every dispatch creates an audit trail. Every match is a verified carrier. Every step is a defense against the “why did you pick this carrier?” question.
Report the breakdown location, equipment, weight, and pickup window. 30 seconds, mobile or desktop. The dispatch creates a timestamped audit record from the moment you submit.
We surface nearby capacity carriers ranked by Trust Score — FMCSA authority, BIPD coverage, safety rating, and recovery history all checked. Every match comes with the verification stack inline so your selection is defensible.
Shipper approves. Cap accepts. Original carrier hands off. Rate is calculated against the federal anti-gouge ceiling. The full chain — who approved what, when — is your paper trail when a shipper asks how you chose this carrier.
CapMates is in private beta. These are Year 1 targets at projected network density. Every cap on the live network today is real, FMCSA-verified, and ready when you need emergency capacity.
Projections based on Year 1 ramp at full broker + cap network density. Updated as live data crosses each threshold.
CapMates exists because brokers don't trust strangers with a $200k load on the shoulder of I-44 — and because the negligent- selection question has teeth now. Every Cap clears the federal verification stack at signup and stays cleared. Lapse on any check, and the badge goes dark.
CapMates publishes a transparent recovery rate that starts from the original linehaul, applies a fair urgency premium, and caps total markup. Brokers know what they'll pay before they click. Caps know what they'll earn before they roll. No one's on the phone yelling about $4/mile.
No percentage of the load. No surprise platform fees. Brokers pay a flat fee per successful recovery after their trial — caps pay nothing to be in the network, with an optional Premium tier for priority placement and direct broker access.
Why caps join free: supply is everything in an emergency-recovery network. We'd rather have 1,000 verified caps on standby than 400 paying ones. Premium exists for the caps who want to win the most recoveries — not as a tax on the cap who shows up to save a load.
CapMates is the marketplace and trust layer — not a bank. Load funds move broker → carrier on standard industry terms. Our job is to make sure the right carrier got the load, the paperwork is clean, and the broker's payment behavior is on the record.
Free during your first 3 months. After trial, CapMates charges the broker $99 when a cap accepts — that's our platform fee, not the load.
Standard rate confirmation between the broker and the Cap. CapMates provides the template; the contract is theirs.
Signed bill of lading lands in the dashboard — visible to broker, cap, and shipper in real time.
ACH, check, or wire on the rate con terms — same as any non-recovery load. CapMates never touches load funds.
Every broker carries a verified average pay time, scored from POD-to-paid. Caps see it before they accept — fast payers win more recoveries.
Brokers can opt into NET-7 or NET-15 per recovery to attract caps when the lane is hot. Voluntary, visible, and recorded.
Slow-pay or no-pay? Strikes are visible across the platform. Repeat offenders lose access — and the signal feeds into ratemydispatchers.ai.
Need same-day cash before your broker pays? Use whatever factoring relationship you already have. CapMates can surface vetted factoring partners for verified Caps, but we don't take a cut of your load — we're here to make brokers' payment behavior visible, not to replace your bank.
FMCSA rule changes, market shifts, hours-of-service math, and the numbers brokers and carriers actually need to make decisions.
The proposed broker transparency rule would let carriers see the full rate breakdown. Here's how to be ready.
Most carriers know factoring takes a 3–5% cut. Fewer know how that compounds over a fleet's year. Here's the math.
Brokers say recovery takes ~4 hours. The real distribution is much uglier.
Recovery is the wedge — every cap on the network is FMCSA-verified and audit-trailed. The rest of the stack extends the same verification layer into dispatch, fleet ops, and the rest of the industry's daily decisions.
Verified caps for emergency capacity — every dispatch creates an audit trail.
Carrier-driven reputation data for dispatch companies and brokers.
One pane of glass for trucks, drivers, equipment, and federal filings.
Driver chat, location pings, and dispatch operations in one place.
We're onboarding brokers and capacity carriers state by state. Tell us who you are — we'll route you to the right next step.
