Should double brokering be made illegal?

Double brokering is illegal, but is distinct from co-brokering, which is done with full knowledge of the 'main' broker. The act is in the deception. I'm trying to find the relevant laws, which may take me a bit. That said, I don't like either, and have been known to drop the hammer when someone tries to double broker me.

 

49 U.S. Code § 13902 - Registration of motor carriers - Outlines that carriers cannot broker transportation services unless registered as a broker. (See (a)(6))
49 U.S. Code § 13904 - Registration of brokers - Outlines requirements to register as a broker

Chiefly, this primarily affects people representing themselves as asset-based carriers, as written. I'm *pretty sure* that there's something, somewhere that also deals with brokers misrepresenting themselves as carriers, but I'll need to do some more digging to find that.

 

If broker B poses as a motor carrier to get the load from broker A and then brokers the load out again how is broker A supposed to know?

 

That how the Landstar russians do it.

 

Because his authority would be just a broker.

 

If they’re a motor carrier book it under that, shuffle some paper around, post it on a load board.

 

Then the person who takes a load from a carrier, not a broker is a fool.
What they do is take a load as a carrier, pass it off to a brokerage they have or work with.

 

That is what they do, I have also made it aware to another broker once and his reply was “I told them too” that San Antonio office are a bunch of scum bags and I tell them every time I have a chance. They will lie even when caught red handed.