CTPAT que se trabaja en el patio— not in a binder.
Zerio is the CTPAT app for Laredo carriers — owner-operators, family fleets, and small companies who want the FAST lane and the customer contracts that come with it. We do the 5-Step Risk Assessment with you, your drivers run inspections and anomaly reports from the cab, and we keep your evidence ready for the next shipper questionnaire, audit, or CBP visit. With your consultor or without one.
Zerio · Carrier dashboard
Today · Patio principal
Readiness
84%
+6
Loads ready
27
100%
Open anomalies
1
med
5-Step Risk Assessment
Step 3 / 5Lane Monterrey → Memphis · 12 vulnerabilities scored · 3 flagged.
TR-8841 · seal applied
Driver Hernández · 09:42
Anomaly: unscheduled stop
Driver Cárdenas · ESC
17-point inspection
Patio · 96% pass
6M+
Trucks crossed Laredo bridges in 2024
<30%
Of Laredo carriers use FAST/CTPAT lanes today
8.5% → 3.6%
CBP exam rate from Tier 1 to Tier 3
Nov 2024
CBP opened a CTPAT field office in Laredo
How Zerio actually works
One app. Three jobs. From the gate at Bridge IV to the validator's call.
Most small Laredo carriers do not need another consultant deck — they need a tool that turns CTPAT into the kind of work the yard already understands. Zerio gives you three pieces that share the same data, so you do the work once and use it for the next shipper questionnaire, the next audit, and the next CBP review.
Pre-certification
Score yourself in under an hour.
Answer the readiness questionnaire — gates, fences, hiring, drivers, IT, seals, partners. Zerio shows you exactly which CTPAT requirements you already meet and which ones you don't. No 90-day wait to find out.
Certification
Build the program you can submit.
The 5-Step Risk Assessment, written SOPs, evidence packet, SVI portal answers, and Partner Agreement signature — all guided. With your consultor in the room or with our advisors at your side. We help you submit, not just prepare.
Stay certified
Keep it alive after the validator leaves.
Daily inspections, anomaly reports, seal logs, training, audits, partner reviews, and the annual self-assessment — all running on autopilot. Maintenance becomes a habit, not a fire drill the week before revalidation.
With or without your consultor
You do not have to fire your consultant. You also do not have to hire one.
We built Zerio for the way Laredo actually works. Some carriers have a trusted consultor — keep them. Some carriers got burned by a $20K retainer that delivered a binder nobody could maintain — start over with us. Either way, the program lives in your account, not in someone else's laptop.
Keep the consultant you trust.
- Invite your consultant into Zerio as a collaborator. They see what you see.
- Their notes, evidence requests, and recommendations live in the same workflow your team uses every day.
- When the engagement ends, the program does not leave with them. Procedures, evidence, and SVI answers stay in your account.
- You stop paying for status reports. Your consultant focuses on advice, not file management.
Or run it with Zerio.
- Step-by-step onboarding: most small carriers finish the readiness assessment in under an hour.
- Zerio advisors with experience supporting 800+ certifications are one click away inside the product.
- Pre-built CTPAT highway-carrier templates, bilingual SOPs, training tracks, and SVI portal answers.
- No retainer. No 12-month contract. No invoice surprises.
CTPAT 5-Step Risk Assessment
Yes — Zerio walks you through the 5-Step. By lane. By customer. In your language.
The 5-Step is the part most consultants charge $5K–$15K to do, and most carriers never finish. Zerio guides you through each step with prompts that make sense for a trucking company — not a manufacturing plant or a freight forwarder. You finish a defensible 5-Step on your first lane in an afternoon.
- 01
Mapa del flujo de carga
Map the cargo flow
Build the lane: shipper, lane, border, broker, transfer carrier, US receiver. Zerio walks you through it once and keeps it current.
- 02
Identificación de amenazas
Identify threats
Smuggling, theft, tampering, internal conspiracy, terrorism. We give you the CTPAT threat list and ask one question per item, in your language.
- 03
Análisis de vulnerabilidades
Assess vulnerabilities
Score each control — your gates, fences, hiring, cyber, seals, drivers — against each threat. Heat map shows where you are exposed before CBP does.
- 04
Plan de acción
Write the action plan
Every red square turns into an owned task: who, by when, what evidence proves it. No more spreadsheets that nobody updates.
- 05
Revisión anual
Annual review
One year later it is not a fire drill. The 5-Step refresh runs on the work your yard already did. Validators see a living document.
What you walk out with
A signed, dated, lane-specific risk assessment with a heat map, a prioritized action plan, and an annual refresh schedule — exportable as a PDF that CBP and your shipper can read on the same page.
For drivers and yard teams
The app your driver will actually open at 5 a.m.
Inspections, seal checks, and anomaly reports are where CTPAT lives or dies. If your evidence is a paper clipboard or a WhatsApp message, the program is exposed. Zerio puts the work on a phone — the same phone the driver already carries — in Spanish, in English, online or offline.
17-point inspection on the phone
Tractor and trailer inspection in under 3 minutes. Photo of every required area. The driver finishes before the gate opens.
VVTT seal check in 30 seconds
View, Verify, Tug, Twist. Scan the seal number with the camera. If anything is wrong, the load can not leave the yard.
Anomaly report from the cab
Unauthorized stop, broken seal, suspicious follower, tampering — driver opens the app, picks the type, adds a photo. Dispatch sees it instantly.
Offline-ready, bilingual
Works on the bridge with no signal. Spanish or English. Old phones welcome. The driver does not need training — the app does.
¿Y si el chofer no es bueno con el celular? Big icons. Three taps to finish. Voice prompts in Spanish. Old phones welcome (Android 7+, iOS 14+). If a driver can send a WhatsApp, they can run a Zerio inspection.
Inspection · 17-point
14 / 17Anomalía
EscalatedUnscheduled stop
Lane 85 N · 14 km past Cotulla
Customer questionnaires
Stop answering the same 80 questions for every new shipper.
Walmart, Toyota, Costco, Bayer, your tier-2 OEMs — every shipper sends a 60–120 question security file before they put you on a lane. Today your compliance person rebuilds the answer from scratch every time. Zerio remembers your answers, attaches the evidence behind each one, and fills the next questionnaire in minutes.
- Reusable answer library mapped to CTPAT, OEA, and shipper templates.
- Each answer is backed by the live evidence already in your account.
- Export as PDF, share as a secure link, or fill the customer's portal directly.
- Update once. Every future questionnaire updates with you.
Open questionnaires
4 ready · auto-filledWalmart shipper questionnaire
98 questions · evidence linked
Toyota CTPAT carrier review
62 questions · evidence linked
3PL annual audit packet
Evidence bundle · evidence linked
Customer broker security file
44 questions · evidence linked
Audit calendar · Q2
4 openQ2 internal CTPAT audit
Owner: Safety
Annual self-assessment
Owner: Compliance
Seal handling spot check
Owner: Yard supervisor
Driver background re-verification
Owner: HR
Recommended next step
Close the driver background re-verification before the May customer review. Zerio drafted the corrective action plan from your last finding — assign and you are done.
Internal audits
Run the audit on your own terms — not on the validator's.
The annual self-assessment is required. The smart carriers run it every quarter, find their own gaps, and close them before any outsider does. Zerio turns the audit into a calendar with owners, due dates, and evidence — not a 14-tab Excel file you only open the week before revalidation.
- Quarterly internal audits on a recurring schedule.
- Pre-built audit templates for highway carriers, drayage, and bonded operators.
- Findings convert into corrective actions with owners, deadlines, and required evidence.
- Annual self-assessment exports straight from the work you already did all year.
Custom staff training
Training your team will pass the first time. In Spanish.
CTPAT requires documented, role-based training every year for everyone who touches the supply chain — not just drivers. Zerio ships pre-built tracks for drivers, dispatchers, yard supervisors, safety, HR, IT, and leadership. Bilingual videos, short quizzes, signed acknowledgments. The tracking, the certificates, and the audit trail are automatic.
Drivers / Choferes
Seal integrity, anomaly reporting, hijacking awareness
ES + EN
Dispatch / Despacho
Load assignment, route deviation, partner verification
ES + EN
Yard supervisors / Patio
7- and 17-point inspections, seal application, container search
ES + EN
Safety & HR
Background screening, termination procedures, training records
ES + EN
IT
Password policy, system access, incident response
EN
No more sign-in sheets.
Acknowledgments are digital and timestamped. CBP and your customer accept them.
Custom content for your fleet.
Add your own SOPs, your own videos, your own anomaly examples — Zerio scores them too.
The new driver is ready Day 1.
Onboarding track auto-assigns when you add a driver. Done before the first load leaves.
For small carriers · paisanos
You did not build the company to fight a binder. You built it to move freight.
Zerio is for the fleet of 5 trucks that just lost a contract because they were not CTPAT. For the family company that paid a consultant $18K and got a binder no one can update. For the owner-operator who knows the FAST lane saves two hours a day but does not know where to start.
We are local. We speak Spanish. We will sit with you on a call until your readiness assessment is done. Cancel anytime. Keep your data either way.
Starter — Para empezar
$299 / month · readiness, 5-Step, mobile inspections
What changes in the first 30 days
- Week 1
Readiness assessment scored. You know exactly what is missing — by domain, by facility.
- Week 2
5-Step Risk Assessment drafted on your top lane. SOPs imported or generated.
- Week 3
Drivers running mobile inspections, seal checks, anomaly reports. Real evidence flowing in.
- Week 4
First customer questionnaire answered in 30 minutes from the evidence already captured.