Can a brokerage broker and dispatch trucks?

Do you mean can a broker run trucks, and broker loads to other trucks that they don't own? The answer is yes. This is pretty common, actually.

 

Brokers have freight. They either own trucks with a shell corporation covering same or have you dispatch a truck to them. It's common. But a can of .. er... barrel of monkeys...

 

I would guess that that depends on how it's organized. If you're finding freight for a truck, and acting as a dispatcher for that truck- in that moment you're not a broker, you're that truck's dispatcher. Especially if you're doing business as his dispatcher, and operating under whatever authority they're operating under.

Now, if you're taking a load you've found on the board as a broker, and then re-issuing that load out on the board for a truck to come find it, then yes, you're double-brokering. Don't do that. Every time you double-broker a load, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens.

 

I mean, you can. I don't know if you should, but you can.

 

As far as I understand, you can "re-broker" a load only WITH permission of the original broker (and maybe need shipper's approval as well), then it is considered "co-brokering", not "double-brokering", and this IS legal...