The founding register is open — founding carriers pay nothing for an extended, locked term. The criteria
Hypercar · Exotic · Collector · Luxury — enclosed only
Every carrier Echelon Verified at the source, re-verified every 60 days.
Membership by application · How verification works
The marques and events our members serve
The problem
A carrier types in their own authority and emails their own certificate. Neither is confirmed with anyone. Then a clean trailer arrives, the paperwork looks right, the car is loaded willingly — and it does not arrive.
Authority
A real carrier's DOT number, cloned.
Coverage
A certificate is a PDF. Nobody calls the insurer who wrote it.
Equipment
The truck at the gate is on no policy.
Identity
Nobody checks who takes the keys.
Four things have to be checked every time, and checked again. On an open board, none of them are required.
The problem, documented
Vehicle theft in the United States fell sharply in 2025. Cargo theft did not. The count rose, the loss on each one rose faster, and the selection moved toward value.
659,880
Vehicles stolen in the United States in 2025. One every 48 seconds.
$725M
Cargo theft losses, U.S. and Canada, 2025. Up 60% in a year.
$273,990
Average loss per cargo theft in 2025. Up 36% from 2024.
2,646
Confirmed cargo thefts in 2025, up 18% from 2,243 the year before.
Sources: Verisk CargoNet, 2025 Supply Chain Risk Trends Analysis, January 2026 · National Insurance Crime Bureau, March 2026.
Why this exists
I have loaded my own cars onto trailers carrying $750,000 to $1,000,000. Every time, I handed the keys to a broker and hoped they had checked the carrier as carefully as I would have. I never found out whether they had.
Emailed documents and word of mouth are how this industry still verifies. Neither one is verification.
It is the network I wanted to ship on. Operators who do things by the book, and want the standard held up rather than worked around.
— Founder, Echelon Transport Network —
How it works
Before you post, while it is posted, and at pickup. These run whether or not anyone asks for them.
Before you post
Authority, insurance, trucks and drivers — each confirmed at its source.
While it is posted
Class and fitment requirements only — and only to carriers whose confirmed coverage carries the whole deck.
At pickup
Whoever arrives is checked against the registered file before the car is released. No match, no load.
Plain questions
No. We are technology and verification. We never take custody of a car and never touch freight funds.
No. We confirm the carrier moving it is insured to cover it, with the insurer who issued the policy.
Authority, coverage, equipment and identity — each confirmed with whoever issued it, and matched against whoever arrives at pickup, before the car is released.
No, and anyone who does is selling something. Verification makes this network a materially harder target, and it puts every fact on the record before a car moves. That is the honest version.
Membership by application. Every member's full file re-verified every 60 days.