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Notes from building a freight broker TMS inside a working brokerage, plus news that affects what brokers run.
October 5, 2026What Is a Conestoga Trailer? Dimensions, Capacity and When to Use OneA Conestoga is a flatbed with a tarp-on-frame cover that rolls open, so freight loads from the side or the top and still rides…October 5, 2026What Is Hot Shot Trucking? Equipment, Rules and What It Can HaulHot shot trucking is a heavy pickup and a flatbed trailer moving a smaller load that can't wait. Here is the equipment, what it…October 5, 2026What Is a Blind Shipment? How Blind and Double Blind Shipping WorkA blind shipment keeps the shipper and the consignee from learning who the other is, using a second bill of lading. Here is how…October 5, 2026Freight broker vs dispatcher: who needs broker authority?A broker works the shipper side and needs FMCSA authority. A dispatcher works for the carrier. Here's where FMCSA says one turns into the…October 5, 2026Freight broker insurance: what’s required and what customers ask forThe law asks for a $75,000 bond and nothing else. Here's what changed in January 2026, and what each policy brokers add does and…October 5, 2026How many freight brokers are there in the US? (2026 numbers)About 25,000, by FMCSA's latest count. Here are the yearly numbers back to 2015, the top states, and what a registration count leaves out.October 5, 2026Can a freight broker own trucks? Yes, with two authoritiesYes. A company can hold broker and carrier authority at once, if each is registered and every load says which one took it.October 5, 2026A parked truck isn’t a lost signal: what 250 tracking gaps showed usOur tracking alert fired whenever a driver sat at a dock for 45 minutes. We pulled 14 days of data, found 244 of 250…October 5, 202612 things in real freight paperwork that break load entryWe read 14 documents from one brokerage's inbox before building load entry. Only 8 had a price, one load showed up twice at two…October 5, 2026The carrier was approved and the load still wouldn’t moveA checkpoint kept refusing a load after its carrier was approved. The rule was right. It was reading a copy of the status made…