The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Tuesday announced it is extending the comment period for a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) offering rules to change broker and freight forwarder ...

The East Moline, Illinois-based carrier was acquired by a subsidiary of Sakaem Holdings in January 2025. Sakaem is connected to the family behind now-defunct car hauler Jack Cooper. Jack Cooper ceased ...

As federal regulators have recently made clear, steamship lines, non-vessel-operating common carriers, indirect air carriers, freight forwarders, and others involved in the global movement of cargo ...

Beginning Oct. 1 anyone acting as a broker or a freight forwarder, including motor carriers who broker loads, are required to register and obtain broker or freight forwarder authority from FMCSA.

More than a dozen years after it proposed to do so, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a final rule requiring all surface freight forwarders to issue a receipt or bill of ...

Standard Forwarding Freight has ceased operations effective Dec. 29, the company announced Monday, “following a comprehensive strategic review of the business.” ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed changes to freight broker and freight forwarder financial responsibility requirements, addressing the problem of brokers that don’t pay ...

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 ...

In the last year or so, it has become clearly evident to us that ocean carriers are treating European and other forwarders differently than how they deal with U.S. forwarders, creating a distinctly ...

Large carriers didn’t have the appetite for big M&A in 2025, instead focusing on cost cutting and doing more with less.