Enterprise Auto Transport is an owner-operated, federally licensed & bonded nationwide auto transport broker (USDOT #2273104 / MC #774106). All logistics are managed via our central dispatch at (239) 273-4649— this is our only phone number.
Fraud Prevention
Last week I spent about an hour speaking with FMCSA representatives about companies using my business name. Then I found a Montway Auto Transport page headlined “#1 Enterprise Auto Transport.” Enterprise Auto Transport is my company — I have operated under this name since 2012. Here is what I found, what federal broker rules say, and how consumers can verify who they are actually dealing with.
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You do not have to take any company's word for it. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration keeps free public records on every licensed broker and carrier in the country. Here is exactly what to ask for and where to verify it:
Every legitimate broker and carrier must provide both on request. Our numbers: USDOT #2273104 and MC #774106. If a company hesitates or deflects, stop.
Go to safer.fmcsa.dot.gov and use the Company Snapshot search. Enter the MC or USDOT number and confirm the legal name, operating status and “Authorized” broker or carrier authority match what you were told.
In the FMCSA Licensing & Insurance portal (li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov), verify the broker's BMC-84 bond or BMC-85 trust fund is active. No active bond means no legal authority to broker your shipment.
Before your car is loaded, ask for a certificate of insurance directly from the assigned carrier — cargo and liability. Match the carrier's name and DOT number on the certificate to the truck that arrives.
When you check our records you'll find Enterprise Auto Transport, USDOT #2273104, MC #774106 — an owner-operated, federally licensed and bonded broker with offices in Naples, Florida and Minnesota. You can also read our full carrier vetting process.
Last week, I spent about an hour speaking with representatives at the FMCSA about companies using my business name, impersonating my company, or otherwise creating confusion about who consumers are actually doing business with.
A few days later, one of the representatives I spoke with contacted me and asked me to provide a list of companies and situations I believe warrant review for potentially fraudulent or misleading activity in the auto transport industry.
Apparently, I forgot one.
A Montway Auto Transport page displayed the headline: “#1 Enterprise Auto Transport.” Then I found the screenshot below — a Montway Auto Transport paid advertisement on Google showing the same wording: “#1 Enterprise Auto Transport | Use Our Quick Quote Calculator,” with the URL montway.com/Enterprise/Car-Transport.
Enterprise Auto Transport is my company. I have operated under this name since 2012. I am a small, independent auto transport brokerage. I have spent years building this name, our reputation, our customer relationships, and our presence online.
So I have a very simple question: why is another auto transport brokerage displaying “Enterprise Auto Transport” so prominently on its website?
Whether this resulted from advertising technology, dynamically generated content, SEO targeting, a website error, or something else, I believe consumers deserve to know exactly which licensed broker they are dealing with.
Operating under someone else's authority and misleading consumers about the identity of a licensed transportation broker are serious matters. I am not claiming that the screenshot, by itself, proves either occurred. I am documenting what I found and asking that the appropriate people review it. I will be adding this screenshot and the underlying information to the material I am providing for review.
Competition is part of business. Using another broker's established business name in a way that could confuse consumers is something entirely different.
I believe consumers deserve verifiable facts rather than accusations, so here is the public federal record. Enterprise Auto Transport is federally registered with the FMCSA as USDOT #2273104 and MC #774106 — the name on our broker bond, our BBB accreditation, and the name our customers have known since February 2012.
Montway operates as MONTWAY LLC, doing business as Montway Auto Transport, out of the Chicago/Schaumburg, Illinois area. FMCSA records list the company under USDOT Number 2239816 and MC-611862, with authorized property broker authority.
That means Montway is a licensed broker operating under its own federal authority — a separate legal entity, with a separate USDOT number, a separate MC number, and a separate bond. Two different companies. Two different sets of federal numbers. One name being used in an advertisement.
We have no affiliation with Montway LLC. We are not a Montway brand, agent, partner, or subsidiary. We have never authorized Montway or any other company to use our name in advertising, on a landing page, or in a quote form.
This is the part that consumers rarely hear about, and it is the reason I take a headline like this seriously.
Federal law requires every property broker to register with the FMCSA in its own name, obtain its own MC number, and carry its own surety bond before arranging a single shipment (49 U.S.C. §13904 and 49 U.S.C. §13901). Brokerage cannot be borrowed, shared, subcontracted, or rented. Operating transportation arrangements under a name or authority that is not yours is not a paperwork technicality — it is unauthorized brokerage, and it is exactly what the registration system exists to prevent.
FMCSA's broker regulations go further. Under 49 CFR §371.7, a broker may not perform or offer brokerage service “in any name other than that in which its registration is issued,” and may not misrepresent its identity or the nature of its operations.
So when any advertisement puts one registered company's name at the top of another registered company's quote form, the questions that follow are legitimate: whose authority is the consumer actually contracting under, whose bond protects the deposit, and whose insurance responds if something goes wrong? A consumer who believes they hired us has no claim against us for a shipment we never booked.
Verification takes a few minutes and protects your deposit, your vehicle, and your personal information.
Enterprise Auto Transport has been in business since 2012. We built our name ourselves, and we intend to protect it.
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