The Fraud Carriers: The Companies That Show Up for Multiple Scam Brokers

When a consumer is scammed by a moving broker, the broker gets the complaint. The broker's name appears in the NCCDB database. The broker's DOT number shows up in news reports. The broker gets sued.

But the broker did not show up at the consumer's home. The broker did not load the truck. The broker did not demand $1,800 in cash before opening the back. A carrier did.

Some carriers appear in Trunk's data across multiple unrelated fraud networks. They are dispatched by different brokers, in different states, for different consumers. They show up under different names. But the same people, the same trucks, and the same tactics appear again and again. These carriers are not victims of bad broker assignments. They are the supply side of a fraud ecosystem.

This carrier appears under at least two names: A & S Packers and Movers LLC and Cozy Mosy Packers and Movers LLC, both based in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Case 1 (Eschbach, 2024): A consumer hired what he thought was Allied Van Lines. It was a fake LLC registered in Boca Raton by Zackary Sudakoff. Sudakoff dissolved the LLC days after the move. The carrier that showed up: A & S Packers and Movers. Four movers in sweats, two U-Haul rental trucks, no inventory tags. Volume doubled from 3,400 to 6,400 cubic feet. $27,000 paid, $5,500 more demanded. The consumer's belongings ended up in a CubeSmart storage unit in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, rented by an unnamed individual.

Case 2 (Safe Ship network, 2025): A 25-year-old single woman hired Safe Ship for a Pittsburgh-to-El Paso move. She thought she was dealing with Two Men and a Truck. Safe Ship dispatched to Ver Vanlines in New Jersey. Her items sat in a NJ warehouse for three weeks. A third company, Cozy Mosey Movers, eventually delivered to El Paso. The delivery crew refused to open the truck unless $1,800 cash was paid. The consumer did not have it. Her mother, who was present, paid because the driver threatened to drive off. Total cost for a two-bedroom apartment: $6,200.

Afterward, Safe Ship told the daughter: remove the review, leave the Facebook group, sign a release, and receive a $250 refund. She posted anonymously under her married name. Safe Ship identified her anyway. Roger Vance personally searched the group to verify she had left before releasing a Zelle payment. The Ver Vanlines owner confirmed to the consumer that someone from Safe Ship sent him a screenshot of her post.

Same carrier. Different broker. Different state. Same tactics.

Ver Vanlines appears in multiple Safe Ship dispatches and has its own enforcement history.

Case 1 (Wang, 2026): A Navy officer hired Safe Ship for a military relocation. Safe Ship dispatched to Ver Vanlines, a carrier that was not incorporated when FMCSA licensed it and had zero operating history. The consumer sued Safe Ship for negligent carrier selection. Trunk's carrier vetting data was entered as a court exhibit.

Case 2 (Safe Ship/Terry, 2025-2026): The same Ver Vanlines received goods from a Pittsburgh consumer, warehoused them in New Jersey for three weeks, then the shipment was delivered by Cozy Mosey Movers. Ver Vanlines' owner was sent screenshots of the consumer's Facebook posts by someone at Safe Ship.

Ver Vanlines serves as both a carrier and a warehousing intermediary in the Safe Ship network. It receives goods, stores them, and either delivers or hands off to another carrier. Its warehouse is a node in the chain between the consumer and their belongings.

LoadRans has 166 NCCDB complaints and 47 documented hostage loads. It appears across multiple broker networks.

In the Coastal Moving / Kathy Petrucci case, LoadRans was the pickup carrier dispatched by Coastal. The crew attempted to double the estimate at pickup, citing unused vertical space above unstackable items as additional volume.

LoadRans is also connected to the Value Added Moving network. Both companies show accelerating complaint trajectories in 2026 (LoadRans hostage loads quadrupled from 6 to 24 year-over-year).

A carrier with 47 hostage loads is not occasionally assigned to bad brokers. It is a willing participant in the hostage load business model.

Legitimate carriers can choose which brokers they work with. A carrier that is repeatedly dispatched by high-complaint brokers and repeatedly generates hostage load complaints is making a business decision.

The economics: fraud brokers lowball consumers to win bookings and collect deposits. The carrier then inflates the price on moving day. The broker already has the deposit. The carrier collects the inflated balance, often in cash. The two entities split the consumer's total payment. Both profit from the overcharge.

Carriers that serve multiple fraud brokers do so because the arrangement is profitable. A carrier that loads a truck and demands $1,800 cash before opening the back is not providing a transportation service. It is providing an extortion service. The broker provides the customer. The carrier provides the leverage.

FMCSA's enforcement system separates broker complaints from carrier complaints. A consumer who complains about the broker's deceptive estimate generates a complaint against the broker. The carrier that demanded cash on delivery may or may not receive a separate complaint. The connection between the broker's deception and the carrier's extortion is invisible in the complaint data unless someone maps it.

When you hire a broker, ask for the specific carrier that will be assigned. Then check that carrier independently:

1. Look up the carrier's DOT number at safer.fmcsa.dot.gov or on Trunk. Check complaint history, especially hostage load complaints.

2. If the carrier has appeared in multiple fraud cases across different brokers, that is a signal that the carrier is a willing participant, not an innocent subcontractor.

3. If the carrier arrives in a rental truck (U-Haul, Penske, Ryder) rather than a company truck with DOT numbers, document the rental truck license plate and the names of the crew.

4. Never pay cash before seeing your belongings. A carrier that demands full payment before opening the truck is executing a hostage load, which is a federal violation regardless of which broker arranged the move.