Role: Freight brokers act as an intermediary between companies that need to transport goods and the transportation providers themselves. When companies need to ship large quantities of goods to ...

Becoming an owner-operator can be both exhilarating and scary. While you can enjoy operating your own business without having to answer to an employer, you'll also need to worry about obtaining loads ...

Trucking plays a major role in the nation’s economy–according to the American Trucking Association, those big wheels generated $346 billion in gross revenues in the most recently calculated year, ...

If you've found this story, know that you're not the first carrier to have found yourself unpaid for loads hauled for a broker or freight forwarder that has gone broke or, in other cases, had no ...

If the old saying is true, owner-operator and small-fleet businesses that make it through to the other side of the current freight environment, declining for the better part of a year, will be as ...

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 ...

A federal judge has ruled that Total Quality Logistics — the second-largest freight brokerage in the U.S. — violated federal law and owes overtime pay to thousands of former employees who worked more ...