How the scam works
A fake carrier or broker books a real load, then re-posts it to you at a good rate. You deliver it. The real broker pays the scammer, and the scammer disappears: phone off, email dead. You hauled the load for free.
Red flags
- Rate is a lot higher than the market for that lane
- The broker can't answer basic questions about the load
- The name on the BOL is different from the broker on your rate con
- Free email addresses, or an email domain that doesn't match the company
- Pressure to move fast, or a request to pay for something up front
- Instructions to deliver somewhere different from the paperwork
Check a broker in 5 minutes
- Look up the MC on FMCSA and make sure their broker authority is active
- Call the phone number on the FMCSA record, not the one in the email, and confirm the load
- Check their credit score and days-to-pay on your load board
- Search the company name with 'scam' or 'double broker'
If you think your load was double brokered
Stop before pickup if you can. Call the company on the BOL and ask who they gave the load to. If it already delivered, contact the real broker with your rate con, BOL and POD. They may pay you directly. Keep every message, and report it to FMCSA.
We check every broker
Before we book any load, we check the broker's authority, credit and contact details. It's part of the dispatch fee.
Dispatch from 4%, or run under our authority from 15%.
Quick answers
Is double brokering illegal?
Re-brokering a load without permission or proper broker authority breaks federal rules and usually the broker contract, and scams that keep the carrier's pay are fraud.
How do I know who the real broker is?
Look at the BOL and call the shipper or the company listed there.
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