How we verify listings

Every listing answers one question: does this company actually give contract work to drivers with their own vehicle? Here's how we check, and what we don't claim.

Where companies come from

• Business listings on Google Maps for courier, delivery and freight searches around each metro.
• Public job listings from Google Jobs that mention independent contractors or owner-operators.
• The FMCSA carrier census: active USDOT carriers in each metro whose names suggest courier or delivery work.
• A hand-kept list of nationwide delivery apps, expedite carriers and load boards.

How we check each one

1. We visit the company's own website: the homepage and up to four driver, contractor or careers pages.
2. We read those pages for whether they work with independent contractors, which vehicles they take, and what they require.
3. We keep one sentence from the company's own page as evidence, and automatically check that the sentence really appears on that page. A quote from somewhere else doesn't count.
4. A listing is published only if the company confirms contractor work, takes at least one vehicle this site is for (car, van, sprinter or box truck), and the evidence check passes. Anything unclear goes to a person for review instead.

What "verified" means

"Verified 9 days ago" means that on that date, the company's own site said what the listing says, and we saved the quote and link so you can check it yourself. It doesn't mean the company will approve you, or that we've spoken to them.

We re-check listings regularly. If a company stops mentioning contractor work, its site disappears, or we haven't re-verified it in 60 days, the listing is hidden until it checks out again.

Requirements and "not stated"

Requirements (CDL, your own DOT/MC authority, insurance, vehicle age, experience) come from the company's own text. When a company doesn't say, we show "not stated" rather than guess. A few requirements are read by software from unusual wording; those are checked by a person.

Pay

We show how a company pays (per route, per stop, per mile) when it says. Pay amounts appear only as advertised by the company, labeled that way, with the source. We don't verify or promise earnings.

What we don't do

• We're not an employer, broker or staffing agency, and we don't place drivers.
• We don't guarantee that any company will accept you or give you work.
• We don't publish earnings claims, fake reviews or made-up counts. Every number on this site comes from the listings.
• We don't copy company pages. We keep one sentence as evidence and link to the source.
• We don't crawl sites that ask not to be crawled, and we don't scrape job boards.

Something wrong?

If a listing is out of date, or you represent a company and want a correction or removal, email support@deliverycontracts.com. See also about us.