The Transportation Intermediaries Association and the Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired are partnering to create brokerage opportunities for those with vision impairment.
Regulators are modifying financial requirements and penalties for brokers, freight forwarders and surety bond issuers.
Federal regulators have outlined criteria to help identify dispatching services from authorized truck brokers as part of new interim guidelines.
Federal regulators are considering a rule that would give carriers greater access to broker transaction records.
Comments filed with the FMCSA underscore concerns over how the agency should regulate freight brokers and dispatchers.
Freight demand was well above historic norms, according to TIA’s chief economist, and a return to normalcy was to be expected.
Truck brokerages have been barred for years from getting a key terrorism-related Customs designation that allows for easier passage; that may soon change.
Private equity firms are looking hard at trucking brokerages, and the owners of those companies need to keep their risk profile in check. Photo: FreightWaves
The quarterly report of the brokerage industry’s leading trade group shows that 3PLs did only slightly better in the rip-roaring freight market of the fourth quarter.
After about a year on the job, the president and CEO of the brokerage industry’s leading trade group touts the value of relationships.
