01/06/2026
🚨 Request for Immediate Enforcement Action 🚨
(FMCSA) and —
I am formally requesting that Total Quality Logistics’ freight broker operating authority be immediately suspended or revoked for non-compliance with federal law, specifically 49 CFR § 371.3.
When TQL applied for and received broker authority, it swore an oath on the FMCSA OP-1 application to comply with all applicable federal laws, rules, and regulations. That oath is not symbolic. It is a continuing condition of authority. If compliance stops, authority should stop.
TQL has now admitted in writing that it refuses to comply with 49 CFR § 371.3, claiming instead that the regulation is “outdated” and that carriers must “voluntarily waive” their federally protected rights through private contracts. That position is not lawful. Federal regulations are not optional, and they are not rewritten by broker interpretation.
📌 A private contract cannot override a sworn federal oath.
📌 A regulated intermediary cannot contract around the conditions of its authority.
Carriers and brokers take the same OP-1 oath, yet enforcement is applied almost exclusively to carriers—through audits, roadside inspections, fines, and penalties—while brokers are routinely allowed to ignore the law without consequence. That is unequal enforcement and undermines the integrity of federal regulation.
The oath must apply equally to both carriers and brokers—or to neither.
Accordingly, I am requesting that FMCSA take immediate enforcement action and suspend TQL’s broker authority until it comes into full compliance with 49 CFR § 371.3. This practice is widespread across the brokerage industry and must end.
U.S. Department of Transportation
Pink Cheetah Express
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Sean Hannity
This is a compliance and transparency issue, a rule-of-law issue, and a fairness issue for the trucking industry.