Tag: broker transparency

Regulations

Hours of service should be front and center in DOT deregulatory effort: Truckers

There's near-unanimity on evaluation of additional flexibilities for drive and rest periods in the HOS, yet not everyone agrees on the ELD mandate. Among other top issues highlighted by truckers, groups for modification or repeal in recent docket comments: speed limiters, broker transparency and AEBs.

May 9, 2025

Channel 19

Trucking attorneys: Broker transparency needed to fight fraud

When Convoy went bankrupt, dozens of carriers got stiffed on millions of dollars. A few prominent transportation lawyers argue that broker transparency could end that kind of abuse.

March 13, 2025

Regulations

FMCSA pushed TQL to drop broker transparency contract waivers

Recently revealed documents show FMCSA pushed TQL in 2023 to change its carrier contracts to remove transparency waivers, while compelling the broker's compliance with existing regulations on a load gone wrong.

February 19, 2025

Regulations

Broker transparency: 8 in 10 owner-operators predict positive impacts for rates

With FMCSA closing its comment period on increased broker transparency, a look at what hundreds of owner-operators really think about the transparency issue, from freight rates to carrier rights.

January 16, 2025

Regulations

OOIDA's virtual 'fireside chat' on broker transparency proposal

The association will be answering questions from truckers as the comment period on FMCSA's brokered freight transparency proposal winds down. Also: Revolving door keeps spinning between FMCSA, autonomous firms; Atlas Canada acquires customs brokerage.

January 6, 2025

Regulations

Transparency enforcement could squeeze brokers' margins: Analyst

Do some brokers oppose transparency it because it will hammer their margins? One freight watcher thinks so. Whether the squeeze comes out in favor of carriers or shippers could depend on the market.

December 18, 2024

Regulations

Broker transparency: About boosting rates? Or a fight for carrier rights?

A debate between brokers and carriers rages on about what transparency might do to rates, but according to FMCSA and OOIDA, that's not the point. Rather, the issue is carriers' rights.

December 16, 2024

Overdrive Radio

Trump II and the outlook for speed limiters, broker transparency, parking push

Can regulatory efforts -- whether generally favored (transparency) or not (speed limiters) -- survive a second Trump term? In this Overdrive Radio, OOIDA leaders Todd Spencer, Lewie Pugh offer perspective on that question and much more.

December 2, 2024

Regulations

FMCSA intends to hold brokers' feet to the fire on transparency -- will it work?

FMCSA says it intends to enforce broker records transparency, but will it work? Or might brokers eventually find another easy out with contract language, timing, or some other loophole?

December 2, 2024

Overdrive Extra

Broker 'confessions' novel aims at seedy underbelly of digital freight culture

"Confessions of a Freight Broker" is authored by a former broker and here reviewed by Long Haul Paul, who notes it's time for a serious conversation about money, and how much of it in trucking is making its way to those behind the wheel.

November 27, 2024

Voices

POLL: Your view of FMCSA's broker transparency proposal?

It's a 78-pager of a notice issued earlier this week, we know, but: If you've now had time to digest the details, do you think the changes, if implemented, stand to materially impact rates and/or brokered-freight market dynamics? Weigh in here.

November 22, 2024

Regulations

Brokers plan to fight FMCSA's transparency push

An FMCSA proposal would force brokers to reveal the rate the shipper paid on a load within 48 hours of the carrier's request. A carrier summed up the FMCSA's move this way: "about damn time." And brokers, meanwhile, geared up for a fight.

November 20, 2024