What was once a straightforward truck-stop heist has morphed into a series of scams involving identity theft, cyber intrusion ...

The Kowalski Freight Brokers Safety Act establishes new federal civil penalties and oversight for brokers who hire motor carriers with existing safety violations.

What, exactly, is a freight broker? A page on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s website defines it as “a person or an entity which arranges for the transportation of property by a ...

Whether you’re a motor carrier that works with brokers or you’re thinking of spinning off your own freight brokerage business from your fleet operations, you need to know about surety bonds, also ...

The legislation aims to levy a fine on any freight broker that contracts a carrier with three or more violations on its ...

Let's start with a simple truth: there's essentially no difference between the terms 'freight broker' and 'truck broker.' However, 'freight broker' is the term you'll hear most often in the trucking ...

Throughout the pandemic-influenced years of 2020 through 2022, when demand for trucks soared and capacity evaporated, third-party logistics providers and freight brokers assuaged shippers by simply ...

Or is a wake-up call for all truckers and brokers alike? It's clear cargo thieves have their claws in trucking after theft of ...

Is “freight brokers” a bad word? Ok, a bad phrase? I suppose brokers in other industries face the same challenge with respect to image. Society has certainly hung a negative rap around the necks of ...

Digital freight-matching companies, or DFMs, such as Uber Freight have entered asset-light truck brokerage over the past few years. It’s early in their evolution, but most DFMs hope to reinvent the ...