Can a trucking company sell its data to AI companies?

Often, yes. As of October 2026, 15 providers name freight, logistics or dispatch records; the trucking records named are quotes, dispatch logs, shipping documents, exceptions and claims. Check broker and shipper confidentiality terms first, and keep driver qualification files out.

What records does a trucking company keep that AI buyers ask for?

The hours-of-service rules list most of them. FMCSA’s supporting-documents rule names five kinds a carrier keeps for each driver’s day: “Each bill of lading, itinerary, schedule, or equivalent document that indicates the origin and destination of each trip”, each dispatch or trip record, expense receipts for on-duty not-driving time, “Each electronic mobile communication record, reflecting communications transmitted through a fleet management system”, and payroll or settlement records (49 CFR 395.11). Around them sit load tenders, rate confirmations, detention and lumper receipts, proof-of-delivery scans, cargo claims, inspection reports and the dispatch inbox.

Providers’ own lists sit on the operations side of that file. Mercor names “Shipping manifests, dispatch logs, invoices”. Telegraph Lab’s freight-broker case lists “Rate quotes, shipment documents, dispatch records, delivery exceptions, and claims”. Miro Advisory describes the logistics workflow as “Quote through dispatch, exceptions and delivery”. Corpus’s freight-and-logistics payout card lists Google Workspace, Slack, HubSpot and Zendesk as the systems included, not a TMS or an ELD (Corpus).

Follow one hypothetical load. A broker emails a tender, the carrier counters and gets a rate confirmation, dispatch assigns a driver by message, the ELD shows the driver waiting three hours at the receiver, dispatch emails the broker about detention, the bill of lading comes back with a shortage noted, and a claim and a short-paid invoice follow. The exception, and how it was argued and settled, is the part Telegraph Lab’s and Miro Advisory’s lists point to. The duty-status log is the evidence behind one line of it.

Is ELD and telematics data worth anything?

No provider says so directly. As of October 2026, none of the 15 names ELD or hours-of-service records, or products such as Samsara, Motive or McLeod. Miro Advisory lists TMS among industry-specific systems (Miro Advisory), and FileYield lists “GPS fleet tracking” among the data categories sellers can post on its marketplace (FileYield), which is a listing category, not a buyer’s request. Providers name the decisions around a load; the duty-status log shows when a driver could legally drive while those decisions were made.

How much you hold depends on your provider more than on the rules. A carrier must keep records of duty status and supporting documents “for a period of not less than 6 months from the date of receipt” (395.8(k)) and a six-month back-up of ELD records on a separate device (395.22(i)). Anything older exists only if your ELD provider or your own files kept it, so open the oldest log in your dashboard before you describe your history. Samsara, for one, exports ELD data, HOS violations, DVIRs and IFTA from its dashboard as CSV (Samsara).

The same rule carries a privacy duty: a carrier “must retain a driver’s ELD records so as to protect a driver’s privacy in a manner consistent with sound business practices”. Read that sentence before ELD records go into any copy that leaves the company.

Which buyers say they want trucking or freight data?

As of October 2026, 15 providers name freight, logistics, trucking or dispatch records on their own pages. A provider qualifies for this table when its own pages name the trade, its records or software specific to it; Data Licensing Report applies the rule to every provider, Telegraph Lab included. The four introducers in it pass you to a buyer rather than paying you.

Provider	Type	What its pages name
Avelence	Introducer	“industrial and logistics” among business types in its profile form (source)
Corpus	Licenses directly	A paid case for a freight and logistics company in Ohio (source)
Defined.ai	Licensing agent	“customer interactions, stock information, shipping routes etc.” among operations that generate sales, marketing and logistics data
FileYield	Listing marketplace; buys nothing itself	“a trucking fleet” among example sellers; a “Logistics/Supply Chain” category
License My Data	Introducer	“logistics and operations” among target industries (source)
Mercor	Licenses directly	Under Logistics & Supply Chain: “Shipping manifests, dispatch logs, invoices”
micro1	Licenses directly	Under Operations & logistics: “logistics processes, fulfillment workflows”
Miro Advisory	Introducer	“Logistics & freight”: “Quote through dispatch, exceptions and delivery”; “TMS and WMS” among industry-specific systems (source)
Nyne	Licenses directly	“Jobs, dispatch, calendars, Asana or Jira”; no trade named
Polyshares	Licenses directly	Logistics among the sectors it lists (source)
Replay	Licenses directly	“the dispatch logs” among the records it wants; no trade named
Scale AI	Licenses directly	“Freight Brokerage & 3PL” among its industries (source)
Sell My Business Data	Introducer	Logistics among target industries, and “logistics data” among the records it lists
Telegraph Lab (affiliated)	Licenses directly	“Logistics & distribution” among target industries, and a paid case for a freight broker (source)
Troveo	Licensing agent	“logistics/field service/supply chain” among business types in its assessment (source)

Two name brokers rather than carriers: Scale AI’s industry is freight brokerage and 3PL, and Telegraph Lab’s case is a freight broker. Only FileYield names trucking as such. Appen, Handshake AI and Scrimdata do not name freight, logistics or dispatch on their program pages (Appen, Handshake AI, Scrimdata).

Our broker agreements say rates and shipper information are confidential. Does that rule this out?

Not necessarily, but those agreements decide what can go in, and so does a federal statute. Under 49 U.S.C. §14908, a carrier or broker may not disclose, without the shipper’s or consignee’s consent, information about “the nature, kind, quantity, destination, consignee, or routing of property” tendered to it, if that information may be used to their detriment or “may disclose improperly to a competitor the business transactions of the shipper or consignee”. The statute sets a civil penalty of up to $2,000; FMCSA’s inflation-adjusted maximum is $4,109 as of October 2026 (49 CFR part 386, appendix B).

Contracts can reach further. The broker-carrier agreement template posted by the National Transportation Brokers Association treats “freight and brokerage rates”, freight volumes and “customer shipping or other logistics requirements” as confidential, not to be “disclosed or used for any reason without prior written consent” (section 4.F), and bars the carrier from soliciting the broker’s shippers for 24 months, or a period the parties fill in, after termination (4.E). The obligation runs up the chain as well: Chauvel & Glatt wrote in March 2023 that “Many shippers require that their brokers maintain rates as confidential”.

Read each broker-carrier agreement and the terms printed on its rate confirmations, your direct shipper contracts, and any factoring or loan agreement. Shipper and consignee names, lanes, weights and rates are the fields both the statute and these clauses point to. Leaving one broker’s loads out, or replacing shipper names and rates, narrows the issue; whether replacement satisfies a given clause is a question for your transportation lawyer. Leaving out records shows how to write the exclusion, and is it legal covers lenders and other contracts.

Can driver files and driver data go in?

Keep driver qualification files and drug and alcohol testing records out. The qualification file holds the driver’s application, motor vehicle records and medical examiner’s certificate, kept “for as long as a driver is employed by that motor carrier and for three years thereafter”. DOT’s testing rules prohibit an employer from “releasing individual test results or medical information about an employee to third parties without the employee’s specific written consent”.

Driver data also runs through the operating record: names in dispatch messages, pay on settlement sheets, and GPS and ELD traces that put a named driver at a place and time. Ask each provider how it handles names, pay and location when they sit in the same record; what “anonymized” means lists the questions.

What could a trucking company’s records be worth?

Two providers publish freight cases, each its own unverified claim, as of October 2026:

Provider	Company described	Records or systems	Paid, per the provider
Telegraph Lab (affiliated)	A 100-person freight broker	Rate quotes, shipment documents, dispatch records, delivery exceptions, claims (source)	$650K
Corpus	A freight and logistics company in Ohio, 340 employees, 2016 to 2024	Google Workspace, Slack, HubSpot, Zendesk (source)	$850,000

Neither names the company or gives a date, and Data Licensing Report found no independent confirmation. Corpus’s card quotes its client on “Eleven years of shipping ops chatter” while listing 2016 to 2024. Neither is described as a carrier.

Three providers in the table above also publish headcount-based figures. Corpus’s payout bands are $100K to $500K for 25 to 100 employees and $450K to $1.2M for 100 to 500 (Corpus). Replay’s tiers are $10K to $100K for 20 to 50 employees, $100K to $1M for 50 to 250, and $1,000,000+ above 250 (Replay). Avelence’s model shows $160K to $500K at 20 employees (Avelence) and $375,000 to $1,000,000 at 100 (Avelence), both with ten years of US records. None is an offer, and the rest are listed on how much is my company’s data worth?

How does a trucking company start?

By dating what each system still holds and clearing broker and shipper terms before any load data leaves the company.

1. List the systems a load passes through. TMS or dispatch software (loads, rate confirmations, invoices), the ELD and telematics portal (logs, DVIRs, IFTA), email (dispatch and broker inboxes), scanned bills of lading and delivery receipts, accounting and any factoring portal.
2. Date the oldest record in each. For ELD history that may be only what the rules require. Put the dates in your data inventory.
3. Write the exclusions before any export. Qualification files, drug and alcohol testing records, payroll, and loads for brokers or shippers whose confidentiality terms you have not cleared.
4. Export a load or invoice report as CSV. In the sample tool, Driver, Dispatcher, Customer, Bill To and Ship To columns become labels, street addresses are replaced, and amounts can be shown as [AMOUNT]. Shipper, Consignee and Broker columns are not recognized automatically, so review those by hand.
5. Send the inventory with the application. Our team reviews your company profile and contacts you about possible licensing routes.