Carrier onboarding
1 long-form answer on this topic, each written against a question a freight buyer actually asked and sourced to documents you can fetch.
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Carrier Setup: The 8 Steps a Freight Broker Runs Before the First Load
The federal rules cited here bind the carrier on authority, safety fitness and insurance, and none of them prescribes how a broker verifies those things, so carrier setup is the broker's own procedure and its value is the dated record of what was checked.