Live, beta
LaneScout
Transportation
Mail Guard checks every email your freight company gets for payment fraud, double brokering and fake FMCSA notices, and warns your team in Gmail. Plus a free DAT One extension and a carrier risk API.
M8 LLC · Data and risk products
Early warning for industries that run on trust.
M8 builds tools that watch public regulatory data so freight and oilfield businesses catch fraud, compliance lapses, and risky counterparties before they hurt.
What we do
Watch public data
We pull regulatory records from FMCSA and the Railroad Commission of Texas and keep watching them.
Flag risk early
Fraud patterns, lapsed authority, delinquencies, new violations. Spotted before they cost you money.
Deliver alerts where people look
On the load board, in your inbox, by text. Not buried in a government portal.
Early access
KickSignal
Oil & Gas · In development
In drilling, a kick is the early warning before a blowout. KickSignal is being built to alert Texas operators to P-5 deadlines, delinquency, and new violations, and to give vendors operator risk signals.
Why public data
FMCSA and RRC records are public. That doesn't make them useful.
The data is scattered across portals, written in agency shorthand, and updated on its own schedule. Some of the most serious notices still arrive by paper mail, after the window to act has narrowed.
M8 reads it, watches it, and tells the right people in plain language while there's still time to do something.
About
I build tools for problems I've seen up close.
I'm Max Holovko. I've spent 15+ years in trucking and logistics, and I still run a live dispatch operation. That's where LaneScout's problems come from: fake carriers, doctored rate cons, emails pretending to be FMCSA.
Before that I worked in operations management in agro-industrial manufacturing, up to plant general manager, and I have a QA and software testing background. M8 is based in Palatine, Illinois.
Common questions
What does M8 LLC do?
M8 LLC is a software company in Palatine, Illinois. We build tools that watch public regulatory data from FMCSA and the Railroad Commission of Texas and turn it into plain-language alerts and risk signals.
What is LaneScout?
LaneScout is our freight anti-fraud product, live in beta. Its main product, Mail Guard, checks every email at a freight company's Google Workspace for payment fraud, double brokering and fake FMCSA notices, with a 14-day free trial. A free Chrome extension adds FMCSA-based risk badges on DAT One.
Is KickSignal available yet?
No. KickSignal is in development. It is being built to alert Texas oil and gas operators to P-5 deadlines, delinquency, and new violations. You can join early access on the KickSignal page.
Is M8 affiliated with the FMCSA, DOT, or RRC?
No. M8 LLC is not affiliated with the FMCSA, U.S. DOT, or the Railroad Commission of Texas. Our products use publicly available government data.
Contact
Questions, API access, partnerships. Max replies personally.