Verdict
truckandtrailer.co.za appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Truck & Trailer Marketplace is a South African commercial marketplace for trucks, trailers, buses, machinery, farming equipment, animal farming equipment, and spares. The page provides searchable listings, categories, regional filters, auctions, dealer services, contact options, policies, and advertising-related services. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 24 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20031078 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2003.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Truck & Trailer Marketplace is a South African commercial marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of trucks, trailers, buses, machinery, farming equipment, animal-farming equipment, and spares through searchable listings, dealer services, auctions, and related advertising offerings.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, impersonation indicators, phishing signals, or confirmed malicious reputation findings were observed. The homepage presents a coherent marketplace model, with categories, regional search, dealer listings, auctions, “For Hire” services, subscriptions, advertising, contact options, and a stated inventory of 18,395 commercial-vehicle and heavy-equipment listings. Its content is consistent with an established commercial marketplace rather than a deceptive or credential-harvesting operation, and normal account login and standard use are appropriate.
- Homepage: coherent commercial marketplace covering trucks, trailers, machinery, buses, farming equipment, animal farming, spares, dealers, and auctions.
- Homepage: no sensitive form, hidden form, external password destination, wallet-connect activity, or brand-impersonation indicator was observed.
- External reputation checks: zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's identity and operating purpose are clear as a South African commercial marketplace, supported by extensive marketplace functionality, policies, contact options, dealer services, and advertising pathways. The available site material does not present a regulatory license or registration number; this is a transparency point for business verification, not evidence of fraud. The domain, historical continuity, reputable registrar, Microsoft hosting, and valid transport encryption provide substantial supporting evidence of an established online operation.
- Domain registration: Registered 2002 (~23.98 years old); registrar DIAMATRIX C.C.
- Web archive: 1,078 snapshots spanning 2003–2025, covering 23 tracked years.
- Hosting: Served from AS8075 (Microsoft Corporation, US).
- TLS: Certificate issued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, DV validation, valid to 2026-12-02.
What to Verify Next
For material transactions, ordinary marketplace diligence remains appropriate: confirm the seller, listing details, inspection arrangements, payment terms, and any applicable contractual conditions before committing funds. Where a regulated service is relevant to a specific transaction, licensing should be confirmed independently with the applicable registry.
- Homepage: listing search, regional filters, dealer services, auctions, and contact routes are available for transaction-level review.
- Site navigation: policies, contact options, advertising services, and account pathways provide documented operational touchpoints.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy commercial marketplace with strong convergence across identity, content, historical continuity, technical integrity, and external reputation. Its overall posture supports normal interaction, including account login and standard marketplace use.
Infrastructure Integrity
The service is hosted on Microsoft infrastructure with a valid domain-validated TLS certificate from Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2. The supplied evidence contains no adverse origin, cloaking, or traffic-manipulation finding; hosting protection is a mitigating technical factor, not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may engage with the site normally while applying standard commercial diligence to counterparties, listings, inspections, and payment arrangements.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
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| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of truckandtrailer.co.za.
- The request stayed on truckandtrailer.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under DIAMATRIX C.C.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by azure-dns.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-14. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-11-07. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | DIAMATRIX C.C. |
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| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 40.127.13.167 |
| Name servers | ns1-01.azure-dns.com, ns2-01.azure-dns.net, ns3-01.azure-dns.org, ns4-01.azure-dns.info |
| SSL issuer | Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-02 |
| Domain age | 24.0 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2003-11-07 |
| Archive snapshots | 1078 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about truckandtrailer.co.za at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.