A dozen tabs
for every carrier you have not used before
Company register, VAT status, the website, the phone number, last year's email thread. Assembled by hand, from scratch, while a load sits waiting on an answer.
Carrier verification for European freight
The company checks out. The sender may not.
Freight fraud rarely uses a fake company. It uses a real one, whose name, VAT number and reputation belong to somebody else entirely. CarrierLens checks the carrier that actually contacted you, and keeps the answer where it can be found again.
Carrier checkComplete
CarrierNordstern Transport
- Company identityTrading
- VAT registrationValid
- Domain and channelRegistered 9 days ago
- ContinuityNew contact
OutcomeHold — confirm on a known number
Catches
- Borrowed company names
- Look-alike domains
- Companies that stopped trading
- Subcontractors nobody checked
The problem
The load moves on trust that nobody wrote down
Handing a shipment to an outside carrier is a decision about a stranger, taken under time pressure, usually by whoever picked up the phone. The cost of getting it wrong does not stay with the carrier.
Nobody checks the sender
only the company being named
Verification confirms that a company exists and trades. It rarely confirms that the address, domain and number in front of you are that company's. Impersonation lives in the difference.
It lands on you
the party that chose the carrier
After a loss, the question is whether the carrier was selected with due care. Remembering that you checked is not an answer to it. A dated record of what you checked is.
Who it is for
Anyone who puts a load in somebody else’s truck
The exposure is the same wherever the order originates. What changes is how often you take on a carrier you do not already know.
You are the one on the hook
Your customer contracted you, and you subcontracted the load. A carrier booked badly is your loss to absorb and your relationship to repair.
The load leaves the ramp once
High-value goods and a delivery date somebody else is counting on. Knowing who is on the other side of the gate costs less than finding out later.
One standard, every depot
Subcontractors rotate constantly. Without a shared record, each site decides for itself what counts as checked, and the weakest one sets the level.
Peak brings strangers
Seasonal volume means carriers you have never used, taken on at speed. That is precisely when the wrong one gets through.
How it works
Short enough that nobody skips it under pressure
- 01
Three fields
Company name, VAT number, and the address the approach came from. Nothing else to gather.
- 02
Layers run in parallel
Each reports its own outcome, including when a source is down. Unavailable never counts as clear.
- 03
Decide, and it is filed
Release, hold, or send for review. The reason and the evidence stay attached to the decision.
Afterwards
A screenshot proves nothing. It can be made after the fact.
When a load goes missing, the question is not whether you checked. It is whether you can show what you saw, on the day you saw it, before you agreed to the job.
Finished checks do not change
Reports, usage and audit entries are append-only in the database itself. There is no path in the product that rewrites a completed check, and none for us either.
An altered copy is obvious
Every report carries a checksum of its own contents. Recompute it against the file someone hands you and you know whether it is the one that was issued.
Names and times, not screenshots
Who ran the check, who reviewed the thin parts, who released the load, and when each of them did it.
Pricing
Start free. Pay once it is routine.
Every plan runs the same check and keeps the same record. What changes is how many checks you get and how many people share them.
Free
€0per month, billed yearly
Try CarrierLens with a small number of carrier checks.
- 5 checks per month
- 1 team member
- Carrier identity checks
- Full check history
Starter
€152per month, billed yearlythen €1.60 per additional check
For a desk bringing carrier checks into every booking.
- 100 checks per month
- 3 team members
- Evidence-backed outcome records
- Customer support
Business
Most popular€392per month, billed yearlythen €0.90 per additional check
For an operations desk sharing one carrier decision record.
- 500 checks per month
- 10 team members
- Manual-review queue and follow-up
- Organisation-scoped audit trail
Business Pro
€712per month, billed yearlythen €0.80 per additional check
For organisations that need the decision record available to risk and compliance.
- 1,000 checks per month
- 25 team members
- Immutable report history
- API integration
Enterprise
Custom
For freight groups with their own review and retention requirements.
- 1,000+ checks per month
- Unlimited team members
- Agreed retention and deletion terms
- Account management
Prices exclude VAT. Checks beyond your allowance are charged at the rate printed on the plan, so a busy month never arrives as a surprise. Need more, or terms of your own? Talk to us.
Contact
Talk to us
Tell us where you book, roughly how many carriers you take on in a month, and how they reach you today. We reply within one business day.
Keep carrier names, shipment details and documents out of this form. Bring those to the call instead.
A check costs less than reading the email twice
Set your desk up today and run the first carrier through in minutes.