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Broker group’s bond exemption request denied
FMCSA: “Granting an exemption to all brokers and freight forwarders would flout a clear and recent congressional directive and statement of the public interest,”
March 30, 2015
Channel 19
Transparent ‘new deal’ for independents using brokers?
How might more rate transparency in broker/owner-operator negotiations help drivers all throughout the industry? DOTAuthority.com/AIPBA’s James Lamb believes quite a lot…
March 31, 2014
Business
Broker organization sues over hike in bond requirement
AIPBA alleges FMCSA violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, given the agency did not conduct rulemaking to raise the minimum required broker bond from $10K to $75K, slated to go into effect October 1.
July 19, 2013
Business
Broker bond increase challenge gets new backer
The National Association for Minority Truckers has joined the Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents in calling for legislative repeal of increased surety requirements for brokers and freight forwarders.
February 26, 2013
Voices
Readers react on broker regulation, rates, GPS, truck loans
Rounding up reactions to recent coverage of a variety of issues at OverdriveOnline.com, in the magazine and on the Overdrive Facebook page.
October 24, 2012
Channel 19
Ken Lund: 75K broker bond no ‘large broker’ move
A Transportation Intermediaries Association board member objects to characterizations of the the organization as serving the interests only of large brokerages.
October 2, 2012
Channel 19
ATTN brokers: Poll on broker bond being circulated
The Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents is circulating a poll on LinkedIn meat to probe thoughts of current members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association on the highway bill measure to increase the minimum broker surety bond requirement to $75,000. We reported on the measure as it was in conference between House and Senate […]
July 16, 2012
Channel 19
More on broker bond increase, highway bill
Given the June 30 hard deadline for the highway reauthorization negotiations ongoing between House and Senate, it’s likely that any highway bill that successfully emerges, whether longer term or another six-month-or-more extension of current priorities, is more or less already finished. Regardless, following my last post on the issues of the EOBR mandate and broker […]
June 26, 2012
Channel 19
EOBRs, broker bond in limbo as highway bill nears
If passed as drafted, MAP-21 would mandate EOBRs for virtually all interstate carriers and raise brokers’ minimum surety requirements to $100,000.
June 22, 2012
Business
Beefing Up the Bond
Small brokers oppose proposed regs to increase the minimum bond to $100,000 and add other owner-operator protection.
June 1, 2012
Channel 19
Brokers: Highway bill unlikely prior to election; more on the bond issue
With news of President Barack Obama’s threat to veto any highway reauthorization or extension bill that comes to his desk with authorization of the Keystone XL Pipeline included, as it is in the House version that passed the Rules committee earlier in the week, came my conversation with James Lamb, head […]
April 20, 2012
Channel 19
The debate over fighting broker fraud
The high-profile case of fraudulent broker Kulwant Singh Gill, who last week was sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to his carrier victims, has owner-operators and industry watchers debating just how to solve the problem of fraud in transportation for once and all. A big part of that debate is […]
April 12, 2012
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