Regulated, more just common sense... and yes I have brokered loads and arranged shipping. Do you think anyone is going to put a multi million load on a 10 or 20 year old truck and just hopes it will make it cross country? Not going to happen. And in my years working I never had a problem finding independent truckers with newer equipment. And the very first thing done was inspection of registration and maintenance records along with insurance papers. I've also refused to load trucks sent out to me by brokers too!
Phil
