Type of Report?: Other

MC, MX, or FF Number of company you are reporting (if on carrier or broker. Must be accurate): 193751

Name of company you are reporting: Bull Transportation

Fax Number of company you are reporting: 310-907-5703

Details of the event: Bull Transportation MC193751 are operating from the same office Freedom Express Logistics operate. They have the same phone and fax numbers, offering ridiculous high rates and asking the carriers to pick up freight for Freedom Express. I had a bad experience hauling a load for Freedom Express… They took a load from sunshine logistics getting paid 1400 and double brokered to me offering 1800. I was lucky because the shipper didn’t loaded me since he (the shipper) gave the load to sunshine and I was cheeking in for Freedom. I’m pretty sure Freedom Express is double brokering loads using Bull Transportation

Freedom Express/ Bull Transportation More double brokering is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

Reported by Interstate Transport, Inc., Contact: RC, Phone: 727-822-9999

Freedom Express Logistics, Inc. MC 643699 Double brokering, holding load hostage is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

Freightbuzz/Y.T.A./Y.T.M. are all the same business and are striclty double brokering freight. They get freight under the name: Freightbuzz through load boards such as: DAT Connect, The Internet Truckstop, etc, and then broker the freight under the YTA/YTM name. They have recently hired a couple drivers (to make it seem as if they are a legit carrier), but don’t be fooled by these middle men trying to make a quick buck. Freightbuzz is formerly known as Passport Freight. If you run reports on Passport, you will see plenty of the double brokering reports on it. Passport Freight’s address is Alik Shrayber’s personal PO Box, while Freightbuzz is actually using its physical address. Don’t be fooled by these people.

FreightBuzz MC 687561 Double Brokering Passport Freight 442340 is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

Bull Transportation Solutions  MC#193751 is who Freedom Express MC# 643699 double brokers to  they operate out of the same office.  the information freedom express put on their contract with me was bogus.  the dispatcher for freedom operates with a cell phone it seems to get the loads but bull transportation has a different number but that dispatcher is at that number.  they are complicit in their extortion games.

Bull Transportation Solutions MC#193751 is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

FREEDOM EXPRESS MC 643699 DOUBLE BROKERED, LOAD HELD HOSTAGE is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

Freedom Express Logistics- Caught double brokering freight.  I believe they have held loads hostage as well.  Out of California.

FREEDOM EXPRESS LOGISTICS INC MC 643699 Double Brokering, Holding Load Hostage is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

Suspicious activity.  GRT and Intermodal USA appear to be owned by the same person.

GRT is showing having 15 trucks, but in 24 months has had no inspections whatsoever.  In addition it appears they are turning loads over to be railed, through Intermodal USA which has inactive authority.

Be very careful.  If you have more information please post it.

GRT TRANSPORT INC MC 672203 & Intermodal USA MC 445798 is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

SAN MARINO TRANSPORTATION INC-  Caught double.  Only is showing 1 truck.  Watch out!

SAN MARINO TRANSPORTATION INC MC 679325 Double Brokering is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

Wayne Logistics Inc out of Brooklyn, NY has several reports of unauthorized double broker for more money than they had in the load to begin with.  Beware and watch out!  All authority has been revoked and is inactive.

WAYNE LOGISTICS INC MC # 206422 Double Brokering for More $$ than in Load is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports

This practice in and of itself is not illegal or unethical, as long as all parties are aware what is going on.  Just like normal, there is nothing wrong with honest and ethical business practices.

More often than not though, companies do not allow double brokering.  What is done is a carrier takes a shipment under the pretense that it is their own equipment.  Then a series of lies occur and the company that booked the load will try to have the company they subbed it out to pick it up.

The reason this is a problem is because freight intermediaries need to have the documentation on the companies that are going to pick up the freight, i.e. the authority and insurance.  When a company takes a shipment under the pretense it is their equipment and subs it back out, the freight intermediary has no clue who is holding the insurance liability.

One thing that has popped up left and right, through so many different parts of the country, is companies thinking they have “leased” a driver on.  Even though the person who they have “leased” on runs under their own authority, own insurance, and has no other connection with the company other than it is cut a check.

The only way a driver is leased on with a company is if that companies signs and MC # on the door of the truck, and that truck is listed on the insurance policy.  If push comes to shove, call the insurance company and ask if that driver is under their policy.

Other than that, you are taking a big risk loading a company that you do not have authority or insurance on.  Just be warned.

Definition: Double Brokering is a post from: Transportation Industry Reports