Book of Loads
Freight intelligence for brokers who'd rather have the data than the pitch.
Lane analysis, surety basics, FMCSA deep dives, and the things nobody tells you when you're starting a brokerage. Written from inside the industry by someone who's driven the trucks and reads the data nightly.
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BMC-84 vs BMC-85: which surety is right for your brokerage
Two ways to satisfy the $75,000 broker financial responsibility requirement. They looked interchangeable for a decade. As of January 2026, federal rule changes made the differences bigger — and killed the financed trust outright.
Nobody Closes a Brokerage. They Just Stop Paying for the Bond.
Forensic autopsy of 10,003 freight brokerage deaths, 2024–2026: 99.8% died the same way — a lapsed $75K bond, revoked a median 8 days later. Who died, where, how young, and why the flat broker count since 2025 is not the recovery it looks like.
The Biggest Carriers You've Never Heard Of Aren't Trucking Companies
Sort the FMCSA fleet-growth winners 2022–2026 and the top is dominated by equipment rental, waste, ag distribution, and big-tech logistics — not household-name carriers. HERC Rentals added 7,600 trucks. J.B. Hunt was flat.
Most freight-tech tools are built by people who've never sat in a truck.
Book of Loads is what happens when you flip that — someone who has driven the lanes also reads the FMCSA filings nightly. The result is writing that respects how hard this work is and gets the details right.
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