Driver clearance is a registry lookup. Cargo theft is an intelligence operation. Who wins?
Kavuka RMS brings the intelligence Brazilian cargo risk management was missing: Driver Score on clearance, Cargo Intelligence on each trip’s protection rule and the risk plan codified into executable rules, monitored in real time and evidenced for the insurer — in a single platform.
- Minutes
- for full driver clearance
- Per trip
- protection scaled to real risk
- Real time
- route-deviation and stop alerts
- Risk plan
- executable, evidenced rules
Pipeline in production clearing drivers and vehicles and monitoring trips for carriers, shippers and risk-management firms — clearances in minutes, with a full PGR-compliance trail.
Every shipment you clear a driver, apply a rule and trust a plan — without knowing if any of them will hold up at claim time.
The inside facilitator the lookup never saw
Registry-based clearance checks the document, but never spots the driver or helper tied to the gang — the classic vector of the planned heist.
The claim denied for breaching the risk plan
The risk plan lives in a PDF and the operation runs on improvisation. At claim time, with no proof the plan was followed, the insurer is released — and you lose the cargo and the payout.
The fixed rule that blocks the wrong freight
A fixed rule by cargo value blocks low-risk shipments and wastes escort in the wrong place — turning away the high-value freight your operation could handle.
Cost Brazil recorded 8,570 cargo-theft incidents in 2025, with roughly R$ 900 million in direct losses — over R$ 1 billion counting indirect effects. The Southeast concentrates 86.8% of incidents, and the crime has professionalized into structured organizations. How much of that walked in through a clearance that only checked a registry?
From the policy’s plan to a defended trip, in one pipeline.
- 01
Codify the risk plan
The policy’s rules become executable configuration by cargo profile, value and route — with compliance evidence built in.
- 02
Clear with intelligence
Driver and vehicle through the Driver Score pipeline: registry, driver’s license, background under the legitimate basis, history and ties — in minutes.
- 03
Score the trip
Cargo Intelligence: route × cargo × time × driver. The proportional rule — escort, bait, convoy and time window scaled to the real risk.
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Monitor and evidence
Tracking and telemetry signals against the rules: deviation and unauthorized stop trigger alerts, with a full compliance trail for the insurer.
The engine behind every shipment
RMS runs the full risk-management cycle — from the policy’s plan to trip monitoring — on top of the tracker and insurer ecosystem you already use.
Operable risk plan
The policy plan as executable rules
Driver clearance
Full Driver Score before loading
Vehicle clearance
Registry and status of the agreed vehicle
Cargo Intelligence
Dynamic rule: route × cargo × time × driver
Trip monitoring
Tracking signals against the rules
Reaction protocol
Deviation and unauthorized stop in real time
Risk-plan evidence
Per-trip compliance trail
Route risk index
Cargo-theft data by region
Who manages risk with Kavuka RMS
Carriers
In-house risk management with real intelligence — cutting dependence and the per-shipment cost of outsourced GR.
High-value shippers
Electronics, pharma, food and fuel — your own protection rule over carriers on high-liquidity cargo.
Risk-management firms
Kavuka RMS as a white-label platform — the GR firm with the best clearance engine on the market.
Insurers
Compliance evidence and Cargo Intelligence as an underwriting input — the rule the insurer approves becomes the market.
The driver check your risk plan requires — and the law recognizes
Kavuka clearance applies background checks with proportionality, a legal basis and a documented trail. Cargo-transport drivers are one of the cases expressly legitimized by Brazilian labor-court precedent, given the nature of the activity — and compliance is not a report at the end, it is how the pipeline operates.
- Driver background checks grounded in the case expressly recognized by Brazilian labor courts.
- Data processing under data-protection law: adequate legal bases, proportionality and a defined purpose in the check.
- Per-trip risk-plan compliance evidence: each rule with a record of execution, signal and timestamp.
- Integration with trackers and risk firms approved by insurers, without replacing the existing ecosystem.
- Full audit trail of the cycle — public or legally permitted sources, encryption in transit and at rest.
Clearance stopped being a registry lookup. Driver Score blocked an agreed driver with a tie our routine would never have caught.
On the last claim, we handed over the per-trip risk-plan compliance trail. The payout was made without dispute.
With Cargo Intelligence we stopped wasting escort. Protection is now proportional to the trip’s real risk, not to the invoice value.
Ready to manage risk with the intelligence of the other side?
Bring a real shipment: in 15 minutes we show clearance, the rule and the trip decided in the system.
- For businesses only. No purchase commitment.
- Data used solely for commercial contact.
- Enterprise leads answered within 1 business day.
What cargo risk management is and how to run it as software
Cargo risk management (GR) is the most distinctly Brazilian discipline in global logistics — born from living alongside cargo theft. Its cycle starts with the PGR (Risk Management Plan), the set of measures insurers require as a condition of the transport policy. That plan defines who can drive, which vehicles can run, on which routes, at what times, with what stops, escort, bait or convoy. The critical point: breaching items of the plan can release the insurer at claim time. That is why GR is not bureaucracy — it is the line between the payout made and the policy denied.
The GR cycle has five layers. The operable risk plan: the policy’s plan codified into executable rules by cargo profile, value and route, with compliance evidence built in. Smart clearance: driver and vehicle verified before every shipment. Trip rules: approved routes, time windows, allowed stops, escort and bait requirements, scaled to the cargo’s risk. Monitoring and reaction: tracking and telemetry signals cross-checked against the rules, detecting deviation and unauthorized stops and triggering the reaction protocol in real time. And evidence: the full trail of risk-plan compliance — the document that defends the payout at claim time.
Brazilian GR is strong in operation and weak in intelligence. Typical driver clearance is a registry lookup — it checks the document, but never sees the inside facilitator, the driver or helper tied to the gang that is the classic vector of the planned heist. The typical trip rule is fixed by cargo value — it blocks low-risk shipments and wastes escort in the wrong place. The ecosystem is consolidated (approved risk firms, trackers, insurers setting the rule via policy), but it operates on early-2000s intelligence. That is precisely the intelligence layer Kavuka RMS adds: Driver Score as the clearance engine, Cargo Intelligence as a dynamic rule and risk-plan evidence as the product of the insurer relationship.
RMS does not replace the 24/7 operation of risk firms or the tracker ecosystem — it arms them with better intelligence. It can run as the system of a carrier’s in-house GR, as an intelligence layer over the current risk firm, or as a white-label platform for risk-management firms. Driver checks rest on the case expressly recognized by Brazilian labor courts for cargo transport, with a data-protection legal basis and proportionality. The result is risk management with real intelligence: the facilitator blocked before loading, protection proportional to real risk and an insurer relationship built on evidence — not on faith.
What is the PGR and why does it matter so much?
The Risk Management Plan is the set of measures the insurer requires as a condition of the cargo policy. Breaching items of the plan can release the insurer at claim time — that is why Kavuka RMS turns it into executable rules with per-trip compliance evidence.
How is Kavuka clearance different from the traditional lookup?
The traditional lookup checks the registry; the Kavuka pipeline runs the Driver Score: real identity, driver’s license, background (under the case expressly recognized by labor courts for cargo drivers), history and ties — the read that spots the inside facilitator.
Is checking drivers’ backgrounds legal?
Yes — cargo-transport drivers are one of the cases expressly legitimized by Brazilian labor-court precedent, given the nature of the activity. The pipeline applies the check with proportionality, a data-protection legal basis and a documented trail.
Does RMS replace my risk-management firm?
It can run as the system of your in-house GR, as an intelligence layer over your current risk firm, or as a white-label platform for risk firms — all three models coexist with the existing tracker and insurer ecosystem.
How does Cargo Intelligence change the protection rule?
Instead of a fixed rule by value, each trip gets a score — route, cargo, time, regional claims history, driver profile — and protection (escort, bait, convoy, time window) is scaled proportionally: more security where the real risk is.
Does RMS integrate with the trackers I already use?
Yes. Monitoring cross-checks tracking and telemetry signals against the trip rules, integrating with trackers and risk firms approved by insurers — without replacing the existing ecosystem.
How does RMS relate to Driver Score and Cargo Intelligence?
Driver Score is the clearance engine and Cargo Intelligence is the trip rule; RMS is the system that runs both within the cycle of risk plan, monitoring and evidence. Telemetry and TMS complete the signal and the operation.
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