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Freight broker Fura’s latest deal adds $30M in revenue

Frisco, Texas-based Fura has bought Cincinnati truckload brokerage Road Dog Logistics, adding roughly $30 million in revenue to a platform that now tops $100 million. It is Fura’s eighth acquisition, and financial terms were not disclosed. Road Dog’s team will keep running day-to-day operations while moving onto Fura’s AI quoting, carrier-sales and shipment-visibility tools. The deal also gives Fura a food-and-beverage customer book and deepens its managed transportation business. Fura focuses on brokers under $30 million in annual revenue, a segment it says private equity often overlooks.

Todd Maiden  |  October 20, 2026  |  Read More →

Broker Liability

TQL’s RICO response: rips carriers’ ‘poor business practices’

TQL has filed the first response in the RICO suit brought by Stevens Trucking, Western Flyer Express, Christenson Transportation, E.O.S. and IWS Motor Freight against it and C.H. Robinson, asking the Eastern District of Texas to toss the case in three separate motions. TQL argues the carriers agreed in their contracts to litigate only in Clermont County, Ohio, that its practices don’t meet RICO’s definition of racketeering, and that IWS had no contract with TQL at all. On the merits, it says the carriers are describing losing freight to lower bidders and dressing it up as racketeering, and it points out that at least half the plaintiffs hold broker licenses themselves. C.H. Robinson has not yet responded.

John Kingston  |  October 21, 2026  |  Read More →

The Stack

Labor Policy

The 2026 Elections Will Reshape Trucking Labor Policy No Matter Which Party Wins

Legal and policy experts who briefed an American Trucking Associations committee say pressure on the independent contractor model is now coming from both parties at once. With 36 governor’s races and 88 of 99 state legislative chambers on the ballot, they flagged states like Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona as the ones most likely to change the rules. They expect no federal fix soon, noting that the Modern Worker Empowerment Act stalled in the Senate and the Save Local Business Act was pulled from the House floor. A Labor Department independent-contractor rule is expected late in 2026, but the experts warned that a rule can be rewritten by the next administration. The article is based on presenters’ views, and it also notes the worker-advocate case for tighter classification.

Adam Wingfield  |  October 20, 2026  |  Read More →

Fraud Prevention

Highway pitches shared standards as freight fraud shifts

Highway’s chief commercial officer, Michael Caney, argues that cargo thieves work the gaps between brokers and carriers, and that no single vendor can close them without shared standards for the data brokers use to pick carriers. Highway, which sells carrier vetting tools and is the source for the figures here, says it backs a $100,000 guarantee on loads brokers book following its recommendations and has covered about a million loads with one loss. To push accountability onto the other parties that touch a load, it launched a certified-agency network on June 1 with 10 founding insurance agencies and plans to expand it. Caney says fraud is shifting from broken rules to attacks on process, including voice-AI calls asking brokers to redirect load details.

Thomas Wasson  |  October 21, 2026  |  Read More →

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Cargo Theft

Feds charge driver in alleged $12M cargo theft scheme built on hijacked carrier identities

Federal prosecutors in Connecticut have charged Nursulton Khaydarov, 33, in an alleged conspiracy involving at least 24 shipments, with thefts tied to him estimated at more than $12 million in retail value. Investigators say the group bought or took over established trucking companies, then used their DOT numbers, email accounts and owner identities to win legitimate freight from brokers before the loads vanished. The indictment also describes swapped license plates, burner phones, efforts to defeat tracking and ransom demands for cryptocurrency. He was arrested in Ontario, California, on June 1, was indicted Sept. 22 on a conspiracy count carrying up to five years, and has pleaded not guilty.

Phil Brink  |  October 22, 2026  |  Read More →

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