Independent registerIndependent register · Heavy equipment & machinery only
Est. 2021 · Register No. NB-REG-001
Northbeam audits one trade and one trade only: firms that sell and service heavy equipment. We check the licence, turn up at the yard unannounced, measure what the listings claim, and publish every finding in an audit trail that cannot be edited or bought.
No firm pays to be verified. No firm pays to have an adverse entry removed, because there is no mechanism to remove one. Corrections are filed as new entries alongside the original.
The firm cleared a Northbeam field audit. The record carries a register number, a confirmed state licence, dated inspection findings, an inspection photograph, and references matched to real paperwork.
A real firm entered from public filings that we have never visited. No register number, no checks, no references, no score. We would rather publish an empty record than a flattering guess.
What makes this register different
A badge tells you nothing about the year a firm was suspended, the complaint it answered, or the condition it still carries. Northbeam publishes the whole file. Below is the live trail for Kestrel Ridge Machinery, register number NB-AG-0114.
Re-inspected during spring stock build. Assessed against Standard 4 (2026). Next review due April 2027.
Filed by officer R.O.
Buyer reported a nine-day delay on title transfer. Firm produced the county filing receipt; no breach found. Entry retained for the record.
Filed by officer D.H.
Register number NB-AG-0114 issued under Northbeam Standard 3 (2023). All checks passed.
Filed by officer D.H.
Unannounced visit to the Grand Island yard. Stock, workshop and eight used-machine files examined.
Filed by officer R.O.
NE-EQD-41188 verified as current and held in the trading name.
Filed by officer R.O.
Firm applied for admission to the agricultural machinery section. Filings, licence and insurance requested.
Filed by officer R.O.
Inspection photographGrand Island, NE
Row-crop tractors, combines and grain handling for central Nebraska.
Latest trail entry
Renewed after second inspection
Inspection photographPueblo, CO
Excavators, loaders and compaction plant for southern Colorado contractors.
Latest trail entry
Renewed with condition carried forward
Independence
Most machinery “trust” marks are owned by the marketplaces that profit from the listings. The badge is the product, and the firms being checked are the customers.
Northbeam has no marketplace, no listings, and no referral fees. Firms pay a flat audit fee that covers the inspector's time and travel, and it buys exactly one thing: an audit, with whatever outcome the audit produces.
Inspection photograph · 21 April 2026
Kestrel Ridge Machinery, Grand Island, NE — inspected unannounced by officer R. Okonjo.