Your spot carriers are
80% of your risk exposure.
LoadShield is your evidence engine for carrier fraud, double brokering and denied insurance claims on 3PL spot operations.
The Friday Afternoon Double-Broker
Friday, 4:15 PM. Your shipper needs an urgent overflow load moved. A truck worth £85k of white goods. Your contract carriers are full.
You post to a freight board. A carrier bids 12% under market. O-licence valid. Insurance looks good. You book.
The load vanishes in transit.
The "carrier" never owned a truck – they double-brokered to an unknown third party. The insurance PDF was recycled from a dormant shell.
Your insurer denies the claim: "Inadequate carrier vetting."
Why 3PLs Get Hit Hardest
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80% spot / 20% overflow
High proportion of unknown carriers under urgent timelines.
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2-hour dock-to-wheel KPIs
No time for deep vetting. Pressure creates shortcuts.
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Phoenix companies
Fraudsters recycle dormant haulage shells with valid O-licences.
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Up to 4-tier subcontracting
You can't see who's actually moving the load.
Freight Boards ≠ Protection
The "old way" was designed before double-brokering became an industry.
The Old Way
- ✗Cheapest bid wins under pressure
- ✗O-licence valid = okay to book
- ✗Insurance PDF looks current = okay
- ✗No time to check director history
- ✗No record of vetting decisions
The LoadShield Way
- ✓Identity Agent: Company age, directors, dissolved entities
- ✓Document Agent: PDF metadata, expiry, tampering
- ✓Policy Risk: APPROVE / MANUAL_REVIEW / BLOCK
- ✓Gate Vision: 85% OCR threshold
- ✓Evidence Pack: Immutable audit trail
What changes with LoadShield
Double-brokers get blocked before booking
Carriers <90 days on high-value loads, phoenix directors, virtual offices – all flagged automatically.
When something goes wrong, the claim gets paid
Timestamped evidence pack proves due diligence. No more "insufficient documentation" denials.
12 minutes becomes 2 minutes
Automated vetting at booking. 65-75% auto-approved. Your team focuses on operations.
5 minutes in the war room
Can you spot the ghost carriers in your spot bookings? Play as a 3PL operations manager under Friday-afternoon pressure.
The checks you learn in the simulation are the checks LoadShield automates in production.
Get your 3PL Risk Report
A one-page summary of your 3PL risk landscape and the 4% of controls that move 80% of losses. Use it with your team, your insurer, or your board.
- Key threats for spot & overflow operations
- 80/20 high-leverage controls
- How LoadShield mitigates each
3PL & Freight Forwarding Risk Report
Spot / Overflow Capacity
Stop the next spot-market fraud before it happens
LoadShield protects your 3PL operations with evidence-based vetting, not surveillance. Risk scores with reasons, not black-box decisions.