Get Your Carrier Ready for Military Food Freight
The U.S. military moves food to its bases every day. The company holding that government contract only hires trucking companies that are already verified, trained, and proven. MFC gets your company qualified and your drivers trained and tested — so you’re ready to be hired.
Verified company. Verified drivers. Trained and tested. Ready to roll.
MFC prepares your carrier first. The hiring company (the Prime Vendor) stays confidential until you qualify — then we introduce you.
SOURCE
We find carriers ready for this work.
VERIFY
We confirm your company and drivers are legit.
TRAIN
We teach your team the military-side rules.
CERTIFY
We mark your drivers ready to haul.
Four Supply Lines Under One Office
The military’s supply office (DLA Troop Support) runs four supply chains. MFC is starting with food — Subsistence — and will open the other three as each goes live.
Subsistence
Food support for the military all over the world.
- Food Services
- Food Safety
- Operational Rations
- Produce
- Working with Subsistence
Clothing & Textiles
Clothing, textiles and equipment.
- What C&T Offers
- Tents
- Value Engineering
- Industry Support
- Customer Support
Construction & Equipment
A diverse set of solutions for our military customers.
- Drone and Counter Drone
- Maintenance, Repair, and Operations
- Special Operational, Life-Saving, Diving Equipment
- Fire and Emergency Equipment
- Heavy Equipment Program
- Containers
Medical
Supports America's military every day and in every crisis.
- DLA Medical Portal (Requires CAC)
- Electronic Catalog
- Pharmaceuticals & Vaccines
- Medical & Surgical Equipment
- Medical Readiness
The details below cover the Subsistence (food) supply chain. Enrollment for the other three will open as each goes live.
What MFC Actually Does — In Plain English
If you’ve never hauled military freight, here’s the short version.
The #1 reason carriers struggle with military freight
Most trucking companies know freight. What trips them up is the military side — and it’s a whole different world.
- Getting onto a military base has its own rules.
- There are security, food-defense, and chain-of-custody rules — including trailer seals.
- The government runs its own inspections and paperwork.
- If a driver doesn’t know the rules, a load can get rejected or base access denied.
MFC exists to close that gap — we teach your drivers exactly how this work runs before they ever touch a load.
DLA (Defense Logistics Agency)
The military’s supply office. They need food moved to U.S. military bases.
Prime Vendor
The big company that holds the government contract. They hire trucking companies to move the loads.
MFC (us)
The company the Prime Vendor hired to find, check, train, and ready carriers like you.
What we do for you
- Check that your company qualifies for this work.
- Verify each of your drivers — identity, CDL, background.
- Train your drivers on the military-side rules for these loads.
- Test them so they’re proven.
- Watch your drivers on an ongoing basis (monitoring).
- Introduce your ready carrier to the hiring company.
The one question we answer: is this carrier — and its drivers — properly verified, trained, and ready for this work?
How It Works — 3 Simple Steps
That’s the whole idea. The detailed ten-stage framework is on the next page for those who want it.
Apply
Tell us about your company. We check that you qualify — you need your own operating authority (not a broker or owner-operator).
We prepare your team
We verify each driver you’ll use, train them on the military-side rules for these loads, and test them.
You get introduced
Once your drivers are “DLA Freight Ready,” we introduce your carrier to the company that hires trucks for this freight.
How MFC and the Hiring Company Work Together
MFC is hired by the Prime Vendor — the company that holds the government contract to move the military’s food. Our job is to find carriers, verify them, train their drivers, and get them ready. Once your carrier is “DLA Freight Ready,” we introduce you to the Prime Vendor, who makes the final call on bringing you on. The Prime Vendor keeps control of all pricing, lanes, and load details.
Important
“DLA Freight Ready” is MFC’s own readiness status. It is not an approval or endorsement from the Department of Defense, the Defense Logistics Agency, or any military branch, and it does not guarantee acceptance, loads, revenue, or freight volume. The Prime Vendor makes the final hiring decision.MFC Standard
DLA Freight Ready
Carrier Status
DLA FREIGHT READY
Two Simple Checks
First, your driver becomes “DLA Freight Ready” (trained and tested). Then, before every load, you (the carrier) do a final check — destination, base access, what’s on the truck, temperature, and paperwork — to clear the trip.
If Something’s Off, Don’t Guess
Your drivers are trained to stop, secure the load, report, and wait for direction — instead of improvising around a security, food-safety, or paperwork problem on the road.
STOP — SECURE — REPORT — VERIFY — DOCUMENT
Important
“DLA Freight Ready” is MFC’s own readiness status. It is not an approval or endorsement from the Department of Defense, the Defense Logistics Agency, or any military branch, and it does not guarantee acceptance, loads, revenue, or freight volume. The Prime Vendor makes the final hiring decision.Is This Right for Your Company?
This is for motor carriers with their own operating authority — not brokers or owner-operators — who want to invest in getting their drivers verified and trained for military food freight.
- A clear path into a real military food-freight opportunity — instead of guessing how to get in.
- Your company enrolled and checked; each participating driver verified (identity, CDL, background).
- Real training and testing built around how these loads actually run.
- Ongoing driver monitoring, plus a verification record for each driver.
- An honest scope: we verify, train, test, and monitor people — we don’t certify equipment, and finishing doesn’t guarantee you loads.
Verified. Trained. Tested. Monitored.
Enrollment
What It Costs
One-Time Setup Fee (by fleet size)
1-3 trucks
$100enrollment
4-6 trucks
$150enrollment
7-15 trucks
$200enrollment
16-20 trucks
$300enrollment
21+ trucks
$0enrollment
Includes the English Verify proficiency certificate, background check, and continuous monitoring for each driver. The first month’s per-driver fee is due on the enrollment date.
Special, limited-time pricing — subject to change once we reach 50 carriers. Get your enrollment in today.
No guarantee of loads or freight volume.Completing MFC’s verification, training, testing, and monitoring makes a carrier eligible for introduction to the Prime Vendor — it does not guarantee acceptance, loads, revenue, or freight volume, and it is not an endorsement by DLA or DoD.
Get Your Carrier Ready for Military Food Freight
MFC gets you ready first — so by the time you meet the hiring company, your carrier and drivers are already verified, trained, and tested.
Verified. Trained. Ready.
MFC prepares the carrier before the introduction.