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What is in a carrier packet, and who fills it out?
A carrier packet is the set of forms a broker needs to set a carrier up: authority, W-9, insurance certificate, payment details and a carrier agreement. The carrier fills it out and signs it. A dispatcher may help organize it.
Each broker has its own packet and portal. The same facts go in each: legal name, MC and DOT numbers, insurance, how the carrier gets paid.
Payment details are the sensitive part. Under the safer pattern they belong to the carrier, not the dispatcher.
Example. You help your carrier fill out three broker packets in one evening. Each asks for the same documents. The carrier signs and submits them from the carrier's own email.
General information, not legal advice. Rules change. Check the sources and talk to a transportation lawyer before you sign or start.
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