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The freight broker transparency fight four years in the making

For those living under a rock or missed the last four years, a fight over the ability for carriers to see how much brokerages make is inching closer to a showdown. 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has proposed sweeping changes to broker transparency regulations, potentially reshaping how freight transactions are documented and shared within the industry. 

The latest escalation came on Nov. 20, when the FMCSA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) titled...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-freight-broker-transparency-fight-four-years-in-the-making

Survey asks who’s hauling cheap freight

Who is hauling cheap freight?

A recent survey by industry publication Overdrive looked into a question that is common among owner-operators: “Who is really hauling all the cheap freight?” The survey considered loads that are on the edge of or below a carrier’s profitability level. Asked if they ever hauled a load that lost money, a majority of the nearly 600 respondents said they had, while 38% said they had not.

Looking at reasons for taking unprofitable loads, most respondents fell into either...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/survey-asks-whos-hauling-cheap-freight