New Fines for Double Brokering

The leading trade group representing the brokerage industry is diving anew into the double-brokering issue. Burroughs said the double brokering may go to a company without proper authority and the original broker doesn’t find out about it “unless something bad happens.” As far as a potential revived role for FMCSA, Burroughs said MAP 21 includes penalties for double brokering of up to $10,000 per incident.”  So during the writing of MAP 21 back in 2012, Burroughs, who was involved in the discussions, said the goal was, “Let’s give them this civil penalty provision to financially go after bad actors in the space.” There are other avenues they can take,” he said. “