Whether you’re a motor carrier that works with brokers or you’re thinking of spinning off your own freight brokerage business from your fleet operations, you need to know about surety bonds, also ...

What, exactly, is a freight broker? A page on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s website defines it as “a person or an entity which arranges for the transportation of property by a ...

The freight brokerage industry, once driven by venture capital funding, is grappling with a changing financing landscape and liquidity challenges. Brokers who borrowed against accounts receivable (AR) ...

Automation and AI emerge as critical differentiators for logistics services providers facing global instability, tariff ...

Let's start with a simple truth: there's essentially no difference between the terms 'freight broker' and 'truck broker.' However, 'freight broker' is the term you'll hear most often in the trucking ...

During a 60-day comment period that concluded Jan. 21, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration received more than 4,800 comments on its proposal to require more transparency from brokers in ...

A freight broker arranges for truck transportation of cargo. The broker does not own the trucks that transports the cargo but acts as a go-between between the shipping company and the trucking company ...

This Opinion piece appears in the May 18 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Against the backdrop of a recent multimillion-dollar verdict against one of the world’s ...

Parade has partnered with DAT Freight & Analytics to power Parade’s capacity-based freight pricing tool, Advantage. The collaboration combines DAT’s predictive benchmark with data on a broker’s ...