What is stopping a broker, or Highway, from tracking you when you’re not currently moving their freight? For all of the non solicitation and lack of transparency that brokers use as tools to protect their business interests, they sure don’t seem to care if the carrier’s operations are exposed.
Nobody should ever ask you for admin username and password for any of your accounts. If all they want is tracking, they can use guest credentials that will only give them tracking permission when it’s appropriate. The brokers I worked for that used Highway to get set up were still using Macropoint to track their loads. There are better ways to verify if a carrier is legitimate than asking them to expose themselves to risk of exploitation and fraud. Even if Highway has the best intentions, which is questionable, what happens if their security is breached and your vehicle title, CDL, account information, etc become compromised? Then if you ever have an issue, are you going to be able to talk to somebody who speaks English and can actually assist you?
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