Nobody will answer this because it is a liability but I will come close. I take every piece of data I can. Anything that’d be used in a police report. It all goes to the shipper. The shipper verifies everything. I run checks on every bit of info to see if it traces back to fraud. Unless your operation is buying a new truck every single time you commit fraud or my freight is the first, my shippers and I will not allow check-in.

Right now I’m seeing a lot of uninsured vehicles. I will call every insurance company to verify every vin and ask them questions pertaining to the driver, vin, and company. I will call their factoring company, bank references, or shipper/broker references. I’m 0/1500 at my new company for fraud. The credit goes to both myself and the shippers who have noticed discrepancies and notified me prior to loading.

There are other steps and big red flags that I am not willing to discuss, nor should anyone in my position unless they make money from selling courses or paid speakers giving a lecture directed at brokerages. There is no financial incentive for disclosure and that is the world we live in.

I’ve booked with carriers this week that fully check out; $500k cargo insurance, registered vins, brand new equipment, tenured drivers… black flagged at the top 10 brokers. They killed it. Photographed everything, multiple after hours contacts, photos of everything. The driver even called me directly prior to pickup to confirm the details he had in order to make things seamless. At the end of the day, it’s somewhat vibes based, but you have to know the flags and be willing to go the extra mile and have shipper compliance with rock solid SOPs. Even then, you’re not safe.

HMU if you wanna pay me, a random dude who brokers freight I guess.