Part 1 of a two-part investigation into an alleged double-brokering scheme from Southern California
Frustrated with brokers and carriers being looted by a sophisticated network of load-board scammers posing as legitimate companies, Joe Howard created a spreadsheet to track a list of suspect companies, largely based in Southern California, to warn others to do their due diligence or pay the price.
When he started the project two years ago, Howard, who works for a Midwestern logistics company that...