Foley runs the service. FileFlo is the software you run.

Two operating models, one regulatory burden.

I hear this question almost every week from small-mid fleet owners running 10-100 trucks: "We've been with Foley for years: full-service compliance, Compliance Counselor on-call, consortium membership. Foley costs us $40K-$60K a year. Is there a software alternative?" Foley Carrier Services is one of the largest managed-service DOT compliance providers in US commercial trucking, a people-plus-portal bundle that competes with JJ Keller's compliance-services arm, DOT Compliance Group, SambaSafety, and Compliance Resources Inc as the outsourced compliance team for small-mid fleets that don't have a full-time safety director. FileFlo is a different model (a self-serve compliance document platform a fleet's existing safety manager or owner-operator runs in-house), and the two products are not direct competitors, they're different operating models for the same underlying regulatory burden under 49 CFR Part 391, 49 CFR Part 382, and 49 CFR Part 395. The regs require document evidence the carrier maintains independently of any service provider, and the carrier-side evidence binder is what FileFlo holds. The vehicle inspection and maintenance file under 49 CFR Part 396, the safety-rating compliance review under 49 CFR §385.337, and the civil-penalty exposure under 49 U.S.C. § 521 all map onto document evidence the fleet must hold: Foley holds it for you at premium per-driver cost; FileFlo gives you the AI software to hold it yourself at flat rate.

This page is not a takedown of Foley. For fleets that genuinely don't have a safety manager, don't want one, and need a Compliance Counselor on speed-dial when a CSHO shows up at the terminal, Foley is a defensible buy. The honest question is whether your fleet actually needs the bundled people layer at $45-$150 per driver per month, or whether the underlying document compliance work can be done in-house at $299/mo flat with AI doing the classification work that previously required Foley's filing staff. For owner-operators, fleets with a working safety manager, and growing carriers that have outgrown Foley's pricing model, the answer is increasingly FileFlo for the documents + a leaner C/TPA membership (which Foley still sells unbundled) for the random-pool administration. Run the math: a 30-driver fleet at $75/driver/mo on Foley pays $27,000 per year. The same 30-driver fleet on FileFlo + a standalone C/TPA membership pays roughly $3,600 (FileFlo annual) + ~$1,800 (C/TPA at ~$5/driver/mo) = $5,400 total. The $21,600 in savings is the price of a part-time safety manager.

Feature by feature. Honestly.

Based on publicly available Foley Carrier Services materials, customer reports, and FileFlo product as of June 2026.

Foley Carrier Services prices per-driver per-month with bundled packages. Range cited from public sources and customer reports. Verify directly with Foley for an exact quote based on driver count, package selection (DQ files, C/TPA, MVR monitoring, Clearinghouse, DataQ), and whether the contract includes Compliance Counselor phone access.

Match the model to your fleet.

Platform definition.

FileFlo is a self-serve compliance document intelligence platform for motor carriers. It is not a managed service and not a consortium / third-party administrator (C/TPA). Where Foley Carrier Services sells a people-plus-portal bundle (Foley's staff pulls PSP reports and MVRs, administers the 49 CFR Part 382 random-testing pool, runs Clearinghouse queries under §382.701, and provides Compliance Counselor phone access), FileFlo provides the software a fleet's own safety manager runs in-house. Its AI classifies 600+ document types, holds the Driver Qualification File under 49 CFR §391.51, tracks MVR and CDL medical-card expirations at 90/60/30/14/7-day intervals, and exports a §385.337-ready six-factor audit binder in one click, all at a flat $299/month regardless of fleet size.

The distinction matters because the FMCSA regulations require document evidence the carrier maintains independently of any service provider. A managed service can do the filing work for you, but the carrier remains responsible for producing the §391.51 DQ file, the Part 382 testing-program evidence, the Part 396 vehicle file, and the §390.15 accident register on demand. FileFlo is built around that carrier-side evidence layer: it does not run the random pool or take the phone call from the safety investigator, but it holds and organizes every record a §385.337 compliance review pulls, which is why fleets with a working safety manager increasingly run FileFlo for the documents plus a leaner standalone C/TPA membership for the random-pool administration.

Built by an operator, against the rules themselves.

Chad Griffith, Founder & CEO of FileFlo, built FileFlo's rule packs against the actual surveyor, inspector, and safety-investigator protocols, not against a generic "compliance" abstraction. Each regulator's taxonomy maps documents to the exact CFR section that demands them, which is why FileFlo can stand in for the document-assembly half of a managed-service relationship and still speak the language an FMCSA safety investigator uses during a §385.337 review. FileFlo is the software a fleet's own safety manager runs in-house: it reads the documents you already have, classifies each against 600+ types, tracks every expiration, and assembles the six-factor audit binder on demand.