When a carrier hauls your load, the truck, trailer, and driver they enter are saved as the carrier's external equipment. This guide explains how that works, even when a number matches one of your own.
The full guide covers:
When equipment is recorded as external
Where the External label appears and what doesn't change
Why an older carrier trip might show one of your own trucks
Two carriers using the same truck number
Also known as: external truck, carrier truck, carrier driver, brokered load equipment, wrong truck assigned, duplicate truck number.