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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 California, to warn others to do their due diligence or pay the price.
When he started the project two years ago, Howard, who works for a Midwestern logistics company that he asked not be named, said there were only a handful of companies on his list to avoid dealing with. Now it has grown to nearly 500.