Not a broker posting thru independent Landstar agent, scam or not

So I came across a load that I wanted to book posted on DAT as by Landstar Inway.
Called a guy he said it’s not going thru Landstar, but thru “X”, which He asked if I was setup with, I didn’t recall so he was going to send me a setup packet.
Packet came from him with his signature as an independent Landstar agent, and his business “Z”, not the same as “X which is supposed to broker the load.

So they want me to sign my life away, pretty much be an additional insured on the policy, have some crazy (higher than what I have) cargo limits. I was willing to put them as certificate holder at best, but I started reading the contract and nowhere it says or refer to them as “broker”, whereas to me it does refer as carrier. No dot or mc number, no phone number no nothing, just address.

I started digging and it looks like it’s an active carrier with 12 trucks, but no broker authority. It apears there was a sister company (could’ve been brokerage), that is permanently closed.

DAT nor Truckstop doesn’t have them in their registery.

It appears to me that they are trying to sell me their own load and all would be fine but as far as I understand if they have no broker authority they have no bond, so I’m pretty much screwed if they don’t pay, on the other hand they want to be an additional insured on my policy because they know their contract is worthless.

Your thoughts?
Book it or a scam?

 

I have not contacted anyone besides this forum and that agent asking to send over this „brokers” authority letter and insurance bond.

 

The issue is that he wants to double broker but there is no broker in a legal sense as far as I can tell, just him sort of using the Landstar brand to sell hot potatoes.