The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed changes to freight broker and freight forwarder financial responsibility requirements, addressing the problem of brokers that don’t pay ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The job of a freight broker is to connect shippers who have goods to transport and carriers who have the capacity to move those goods.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The freight market volatility of the past few years has created an even greater need for carriers and brokers to strengthen their ...

Beginning Oct. 1 anyone acting as a broker or a freight forwarder, including motor carriers who broker loads, are required to register and obtain broker or freight forwarder authority from FMCSA.

If you've found this story, know that you're not the first carrier to have found yourself unpaid for loads hauled for a broker or freight forwarder that has gone broke or, in other cases, had no ...

Editor’s note: This article was excerpted from our Freight Brokerage Business start-up guide, available from Entrepreneur Bookstore. Take a look around your home or office. It’s highly unlikely you ...

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 ...