What is a Double Brokered Load?

Let's say you're a Trucking company and the name of your business is Apple Trucking and you're talking on the phone with T.Q.L. (Total Quality Logistics, one of the world's biggest Freight Brokers). You accept a load from T.Q.L. to run a from Atlanta, GA to San Antonio, TX. The Broker, T.Q.L., agrees to pay you, Apple Trucking, $3,000 to move this shipment. Well... a "double brokered load" would be if Apple Trucking taking this load from Atlanta to San Antonio and re-selling it on the open market to another Carrier/Trucking Company. 

Let's say Apple Trucking re-sells this load to a different Carrier Called Success Trucking, and Apple Trucking sells it to them for $2,800. This Load has now been double-brokered because the load has been sold from T.Q.L. --> Apple Trucking --> Success Trucking. This is double brokering a load because the Carrier Apple Trucking has now "Re-Brokered" out this load to a different Carrier Success Trucking who T.Q.L. knows absolutely nothing about.

Double-brokering is technically something you can do, but across the industry it's a big NO-NO. If you get caught by the original Broker, they will blacklist you (marking a Carrier on a do not use list) preventing you from doing any future loads with their Brokerage. So, if you get caught and you're running a load with a big-name Broker like T.Q.L., you've killed a relationship with a huge Broker who could have given you tons of loads. So, since you can't work with that Broker anymore it will now be more difficult for you to find well-paying loads. Ultimately, I would encourage you to never double broker a load and risk this happening to your business.