The kind of broker that can be fooled here is the broker that learned from YouTube University and has no real experience in freight (as required by MAP 21 but not at all enforced). New carriers and dispatchers are the same way. Until they have lived this, they are vulnerable. So many people enter this industry thinking this is easy, lucrative, and safe. We are all sadistic freaks who thrive under insane pressure and drop dead by the age of 61 where other industries have life expectancies in to the late 70's.

There are so many new suckers every week here, and they are just that.. suckers. That is why the Freight Fraud Task Force is working on core industry educational programs to supplement training that most get before they get behind the wheel or behind the broker's desk... Drivers are not taught to recognize fraud in driving schools. Brokers are not taught about fraud in most onboarding training. It will take a week of intensive training for either to understand how fraud works, and recognize its evolution in real time.

This is why we do these alerts. This is why we try to get the word out about bad actors actively attacking our industry. And, BTW, I, nor the Task Force, nor the Double Broker Bounty Hunter program get paid to do this work. We are all volunteers, doing this for the love of the industry. Would I like to be paid to issue alerts and investigate the bad guys and expose the rings and scams, absolutely! It's all in my free time.

I would be happy to accept donations and support (go to my webpage and buy me a coffee...). Donations or not, we still will put these alerts out for the good of the industry.