How company rankings are made
RideShipper rankings compare companies on review evidence, federal licence status, and terms the company has published: deposit, price lock, who pays if the carrier's price comes back higher, cargo limit, cancellation, and pickup window. A fact that was not found is left blank. Paying RideShipper does not change the rank. A sponsored row is labeled and sits outside the list.
Key facts
- What the rank uses
- Review evidence, licence status, and published terms
- What the rank ignores
- Whether the company paid for a lead or a placement
- Missing facts
- A blank cell. RideShipper does not guess a deposit, a cargo limit, or a quote the company refused.
The sources are listed on this page.
A RideShipper ranking is a comparison of published facts, not a prize and not an ad. The inputs are review evidence, federal licence status, and the terms a company has published. Paying RideShipper does not move a company up or down.
RideShipper does not copy another site's order. Each ranked list uses the columns below and states the date the terms were read.
The columns
| Column | What it records | What a blank means |
|---|---|---|
| Review evidence | What customers reported, with the review count and the date range. The method is the review analysis. | Fewer than the minimum for a verdict. The reviews themselves may still be on the profile. |
| Licence status | Active or inactive operating authority, with USDOT and docket numbers and the date the federal file was read. | The record was not matched. The page does not invent a number. |
| Deposit | What the company publishes about a deposit. | The company did not publish a deposit term on the page that was read. |
| Price lock | When the company says the price is fixed. | No published price-lock term was found. |
| Who pays if the carrier comes back higher | Who the company's terms say pays when the truck price is above the quote. | The terms that were read do not say. |
| Cargo limit | The cargo amount the company states, which is not the same as a liability filing. | No published cargo limit was found. |
| Cancellation | The cancellation term the company publishes. | No published cancellation term was found. |
| Pickup window | The pickup window the company publishes. | No published pickup window was found. |
A blank cell stays blank. If a company will not quote a shopped lane, that cell is empty too. An empty cell is more honest than a made-up range. The standard is on editorial standards.
Stars are the average of reviews RideShipper displays. They are not an editorial grade, and they are not the whole rank. A company with active authority and strict published terms can outrank a company with a higher star average and no published terms. The page shows the columns so a reader can see why.
What is left out on purpose
Payment is not a column. A company that buys quote requests is not ranked higher for that purchase. A sponsored placement, if sold, is a third label: the word sponsored on that row, outside the ranked list. See the advertising disclosure.
RideShipper does not use a hidden point score that a company can buy. The order comes from the columns on the page. RideShipper also does not borrow MoveAdvisor's review-sort weights, including any extra weight MoveAdvisor gives a paid identity badge.
Licence facts come from federal files, described in company data sources. "Insurance on file" in those files is not a cargo limit and not a promise of cover, so it is not typed into the cargo-limit column.
Rankings are RideShipper's own comparisons. They are not a federal safety rating. Most carriers have no FMCSA safety rating on file. No rating on file is not a finding that the carrier is safe.
Questions
Can a company pay for a higher rank?
No. Payment for a quote request or for a sponsored placement is not a ranking input. A sponsored row is labeled and is not part of the ranked list.
Why is a cell blank?
The company did not publish that term, or it would not give a quote for the shop. A blank is the result. It is not filled with another site's number or with an estimate.
Are stars the ranking?
No. Stars are the average of published customer reviews. The ranking also uses licence status and the term columns. Stars alone do not set the order.