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

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

Since its inception, MAP-21 has allowed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to play fast and loose with its enforcement of regulations involving brokers — particularly when it comes to ...

After years of volatility, players across the transportation industry are holding hope that 2026 brings equilibrium. Many ...

PL Trinity Logistics has put together a guide for motor carriers filled with tips on avoiding freight fraud, as well as what ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published a final rule tightening financial responsibility requirements for brokers and freight forwarders in an attempt to cut down on fraud and ...

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 ...

The Transportation Intermediaries Association, the main trade group for freight brokers and 3PLs, has taken up what they hope will be an industry-wide fight against freight fraud, admitting that ...

The middlemen who match shipments with trucks have been seeing their ranks swell of late, thanks in large part to web-based software programs that have greatly lowered the cost barrier to entry. Among ...

Melissa Forman said double brokering was not talked about as much before six months ago, but with the freight industry on a downswing, bad actors are getting desperate to make an extra dollar. Forman, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Over the last several years, a handful of driving forces have helped progress the business of moving goods from one location to another, ...

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 ...