Freight fraud: Burgeoning double-brokering scheme like 'whack-a-mole'
Double-brokering scams, fraudulent fuel advances, cost the industry over 100 million per year 0 46 6 minutes read Joe Howard, a 20-year logistics industry veteran, warns of load-board scammers popping up in Southern California. Photo: Karen Roach/Shutterstock Part 1 of a two-part investigation into an alleged double-brokering scheme from Southern California Frustrated with brokers and carriers being looted by a sophisticated network of load-board scammers posing as legitimate companies, Joe Howard created a spreadsheet to track a list of suspect companies, largely based in Southern ...