USTA’s Landis confirms progress on broker investigation

While the battle over truck broker transparency and alleged misconduct has cooled somewhat in recent weeks, the fight continues in offices and backrooms in Washington.

Broker-carrier relationships have often been contentious, but tanking spot rates during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic brought with it new allegations of unethical behavior on the part of brokers by small business truckers.

What was initially anticipated as a weekend “May Day” rally in Washington by independent...

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Commentary: Digital freight brokers face a moment of truth

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. 

News reports that Uber is re-evaluating non-core units like Uber Freight did not take me by surprise.

 To learn more about what’s happening, you can read JP Hampstead’s Uber ‘re-evaluating’ non-core units like freight, WSJ reports, which ran in FreightWaves on Monday, May 18.

Defining the problem

In The Business of Platforms by Michael Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and...

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