LP-DOCTRINE-001 | THREAT MODEL
The 16 Deadly Sins of the New Authority
The LaunchPath Proprietary Threat Model
Every motor carrier failure leaves a paper trail.
The investigator writes it down after the fact.
The LaunchPath system identifies the behaviors before they happen.
Most new carrier authorities do not fail because the operator was careless. They fail because the operational behaviors that cause failure are invisible until an investigator documents them. These are the 16 behaviors the LaunchPath system is built to eliminate. Each one maps to a specific federal regulation. Each one has ended operating authority for carriers who did not know it was happening.
THE 16 DEADLY SINS — AT A GLANCE
Most new authorities do not fail from one major violation. They fail from several smaller failures that go unnoticed until an investigator documents them.
Authority & Administrative Failures
Driver Qualification Failures
Drug & Alcohol Failures
HOS & Dispatch Failures
Maintenance & Inspection Failures
Incident Reporting Failures
Below are the 5 most common authority-ending behaviors. The full list — with prevention protocols — is in the checklist.
FEATURED VIOLATIONS
The 5 most common authority-ending behaviors — documented below in full
These are 5 of the 16. The remaining 11 — including prevention protocols for all 16 — are in the full checklist.
LP-LEAD-001 | CHECKLIST DOWNLOAD
Download the 16 Deadly Sins Checklist
A self-audit tool for new motor carriers. Review your operation against all 16 behaviors that most commonly end authority — with CFR citations, consequence details, and prevention protocols.
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THE REMAINING 11
The full checklist includes these additional failure patterns:
Each includes the full description, CFR citation, consequence details, and prevention protocol.
LP-RES-001 | POCKET GUIDE
Get all 16 — with full prevention protocols
CFR citations, consequence details, and prevention systems for every sin. A permanent reference for your operation.
CONCLUSION
If you recognized two or more of these in your own operation, your audit window is open and your gaps are already accumulating.
Every sin on this list has ended a motor carrier's authority. Every sin has a corresponding system that prevents it.
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