New CMT Platform Uses Recent Driving Data to Measure Carrier Safety

CMT's new Freight Safety Intelligence platform uses 90 days of telematics data to give freight brokers a more current view of carrier driving safety.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics has launched a new platform that could make recent on-road driving performance a bigger part of how freight brokers evaluate carriers before assigning a load.

Freight Safety Intelligence uses telematics data from participating carriers to generate a carrier-level safety score based on the previous 90 days of driving. The system is designed to give brokers a more current view of driving behavior while allowing carriers to demonstrate their safety performance using data from their existing telematics systems.

Platform Looks Beyond Existing Safety Records

Freight brokers already have access to federal safety information when evaluating carriers, but CMT argues that those records do not always provide a current picture of how a fleet is performing on the road.

The company cited FMCSA data showing that 94% of interstate freight carriers do not have an FMCSA safety rating. CMT also said existing records can lag behind current driving behavior, creating a gap between historical information and a carrier’s more recent performance.

Freight Safety Intelligence is intended to add another source of information to that process by analyzing recent driving data before freight is assigned.

Carriers Choose Whether to Participate

The program relies on data from telematics systems already being used by participating carriers. Fleets authorize access through the platform, and participation is voluntary, with carriers maintaining control over the information they share.

CMT then analyzes the previous 90 days of driving and produces a carrier-level safety score that the company says has been validated against crash risk. Freight brokers can consider that score as part of their carrier-selection process.

For participating fleets, the same system creates a way to show brokers how their equipment is being operated now rather than relying exclusively on older safety records.

Driving Performance Could Become Part of Freight Decisions

The platform also introduces another potential business consideration for carriers because brokers can use the safety score when deciding who receives a load.

CMT says making recent driving performance visible during carrier selection could give fleets with stronger safety results another way to distinguish themselves when competing for freight. In practice, that means the everyday driving behavior captured by a fleet’s telematics system could become part of the information considered before a broker books the carrier.

The new service follows CMT’s January 2026 launch of DriveWell Fleet, a safety platform developed for commercial fleets and insurers. Freight Safety Intelligence extends that technology into the freight-broker selection process, connecting recent driving data with decisions about which carriers move individual loads.