Stop The Scam!

John and Kate celebrate our first anniversary show and we are brining on our biggest supporters to party with us!

John and Kate host the Safety and compliance guru behind the new consulting company, Wattsman Diesel House and the Sonic Safety podcast. Special Guest: Sam Watts

John and Kate look at big brokers using claims as a revenue stream, especially among the large 3-letter types.. Special Guest: Shane McKinney - Freight-Medic

John and Kate will be exploring what both sides of the coin can do to vet each other responsibly with respect. Headliner Guest: Claudia Catlett - "Freight Fraud Femme Fatale" - Compliance & Claims Manager for General Transport

As we work off the newly found weight of the holiday season, we are exploring the upcoming year and administration's legislative agenda for Transportation. We will explore all of the new initiatives and the legal implications that may come about. Special Guest: Henry (Hank) Seaton, Seaton & Husk L.P.

The gang enters the holidays looking back on highlights of 2024.

As we come off of the holiday stupor and back into the business of logistics and transportation, we are revisiting broker compliance procedures to see what needs to happen to ensure the good and safe carriers aren't boxed out. Grab some leftover pumpkin pie and settle in! Special Guests: Claudia Catlett - Fraud Fighter Extraordinaire, Compliance Manager at General Transportation Dale Prax - Unofficial Quality Assurance Department of the FMCSA, Owner of Freight Validate

OOIDA staff has provided significant feedback regarding the changes to Carrier 411's FreightGuard Reports program. OOIDA Executive Vice President, Lewie Pugh will be joining John and Kate to discuss what they think needs to happen with C411 to best support carriers and the industry as a whole.

The week, our panel will review and discuss the implications this "First of its kind" service giving carriers the ability to fire back at brokers for bad behavior. We will do a live demo on the air, and be taking questions from the audience.

Special Guest: Danielle Spinelli - MyCarrierPortal Also on the panel: Jennifer Chrestman - Tucker Albin and Associates Hunter Woodfin - Co-host: The Logistics Lounge Claudia Catlett - General Transportation Inc (Unconfirmed) Bill Robinson - VP, Wellington Companies (Unconfirmed) With this week's panel, John and Kate will debate the need for a shift in how Broker Compliance teams evaluate carriers. Learn about the current challenges that lead to safe carriers being unfairly disqualified and discover innovative strategies to improve evaluation procedures. Join the conversation on ensuring safety and reliability in the transportation industry!

John and Kate get the details of discussions and highlights from last week's BCS conference. The hosts of the Logistics Lounge will be on hand to share their experiences from this groundbreaking conference!

This week we are preparing for the winter. We are also still fighting fraud by way of bad dispatch services who don't understand the rules or are blatantly violating them.

This week we check in with Jeff Dickinson of RGTX Logistics Solutions and The Bodacious Cowboy podcast as he works to build networks to support disaster relief.

Carrier 411 has again expanded its list of FreightGuard offenses, giving brokers more reasons to inflict extreme economic hardship against innocent carriers.

A Small Brokers Struggle

Updates on out ongoing investigations and answering fan questions.

This week's guest is Drew Wilder of Vicarious Liability Risk Management LLC. We will be going over some fake COIs and discussing techniques on how to rapidly evaluate the viability of a carrier's coverage.

John and Kate dive into the ethics behind dispatching - What makes a proper dispatch service?

We are putting special focus on Women In Logistics this week. Among our guests is he winner of the 2023 OTR Solutions' Women In Logistics Leadership Award, Gretchen Long.

This week's special guests include Dale Prax of Freight Validate, and Meg Boaz of MyCarrierPortal. They will be talking about how their new integration will change the industry for the better! Watch out, scammers!

Our guest this week is Andrey Drotenko, President of Strategic Relations at Verified Carrier. We will be talking about their product and what it takes to get "Verified" in the trucking industry. We will have our usual panel discussing current fraud cases we are working on as well.

Kate and John take on Land Line's article on FMCSA's failure to deal with the double brokering problem. OOIDA has some good points, but some that don't hold any water.

John and Kate take on Broker Impersonation and Amazon loads.

John and Kate discuss the latest on fraud in the industry.

John and Kate take on cases of the week. We cover a couple freight guard cases for cautionary tales. Listen to a call between a broker and a scammer when the broker gives the scammer a fighting chance to do the right thing...

John and Kate take on the scammers preying on the Hotshot community. Special Guest: David "DC" Campos - Mr. Hotshot - USA

Special Guest: Shane McKinney - Freight Medic Today's Topic: Reputation Management - How to defend from a bad review?

This week, Kate is off. John will be covering the cases of when brokers who refuse to believe they are wrong, and destroy carriers in the process.

This week on "Stop the Scam!" Expected Guests: Trucking Owner and Consultant, Aaron "The Trucking Guy" Brokers Hunter Woodfin and Robert Peterson, hosts of "The Logistics Lounge". Topics: John and Kate shoot the bull with some trucking social media giants to get their take on non-competes, fishing scams hitting brokers, and getting paid.

John and Kate take on the scams of the day. MABE Update. New Double Broker/Double Pay scam. This and more!

John and Kate are overwhelmed with current investigations and will be back on Monday 5/13 for another full episode. We hit on a few reminders and tips in today's short episode.

John and Kate start off with a Mabe recap, how you can follow up if you have been affected and how to protect yourself moving forward. Also discussing stolen load board credentials and how brokers can protect themselves from having their information stolen.

John and Kate take on fraud in the industry. This week's guests: "Pedro Potato" of the Logistics Lounge Podcast Shane McKinney of Freight Medic Topics: Mabe Logistics Update Launch of the DBBH Webinar Case study on bad (unwarranted) broker reports against carriers.

We have invited back our first guest, Shane of Freight Medic to discuss latest developments on the industry.

John and Kate take on the scammers of the day... We have a bunch of new info on MABE LOGISTICS and ran into an attempted cargo theft. All of this and more, Today on Stop the Scam!

John and Kate take on Fraud in the industry while going over current cases, and lessons learned. Includes Double Brokering issues and Double Pay Liability.

John and Kate take on the latest in fraud in the transportation industry. There are now Amazon issues to watch for, dispatchers.... Scammers are stealing DAT credentials and waiting for brokers to advertise on social media that they will be out of town. RIGZ running a collection service?

The DBBH and Dispatch Kate will talk about last week's show with the owner of Carrier 411. Lots to unpack from that show!

This week, John and Kate are joined by the Owner and CEO of Carrier411, Darren Brewer! Join us to find out how the intellect behind the site used by thousands of brokers, and how it can affect you as the carrier, along with tips on how to avoid Freight Guards.

This week, John is a lone rider discussing an interesting new scam hitting the transpsortation industry.

This week, John and Kate are joined by the hosts of The Logistics Lounge for their take on what's going on in the transportation industry, and how the broker views the ins and outs of the day to day operations.

In this episode, John and Kate discuss double pay liability, and a continuing issue, a carrier that continues to scam owner operators under the guise of leasing on.

In this episode, John and Kate dive into what to look out for when it comes to dealing with a double brokered load.

A special guest joins us to discuss DOT compliance within the transportation industry.

The Double Broker Bounty Hunter (John Cantera) and Dispatch Kate welcome a friendly voice in this episode to help you better understand the dispatchers role in the transportation industry.