Bram-City Logistic
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Bramcity was involved in a rollover incident in Missouri in December 2025. During our investigation, we discovered that they appeared to have been operating under inactive authorities at that time as well. They also provided incorrect insurance information to the Missouri State Police. Two days later, they stopped responding to emails and phone calls.
We reached out to their insurance broker, A-Kan Insurance, to file a claim. Two months later, we still have not received any response from their insurance company.
It took approximately one month for Loadlink to review Bramcity’s inactive MC status and remove them from their system. While Loadlink claims to protect its clients through various security measures, in reality, inactive carriers are still being displayed as active and allowed to move freight. There has been no accountability from Loadlink regarding this issue. Although we did not necessarily expect accountability, we did expect that a platform charging thousands of dollars per month would at minimum ensure that carriers shown as active are properly authorized.
Returning to A-Kan Insurance—this is now the second incident where a carrier insured by A-Kan has damaged freight and we have received no response whatsoever from A-Kan. In the previous incident, it took nearly one year to obtain any form of resolution. They do not answer phone calls, nor do they appear to have staff available at their Oakville office. We have visited in person multiple times and consistently found the office closed, with uncollected mail in front of the door.
As a result, we have decided that we will no longer partner with any carrier insured by A-Kan Insurance. While I am not a 30-year veteran of this industry, I do have sufficient experience to state that A-Kan appears to be operating in a highly questionable manner, and it raises serious concerns as to whether some of their clients are insured at all. The policy document issued to Bramcity even shows the word “BIND” under the policy number field.
We filed a complaint with RIBO and were told that, under Ontario’s PIPEDA privacy laws, A-Kan is not required to share their client’s “personal information.” First, an insurance company name is not personal information. Second, this effectively creates a loophole where a trucking company could operate using fraudulent insurance documentation, save tens of thousands of dollars, and refuse to verify coverage by citing PIPEDA. When this was pointed out, the RIBO representative had no response.
In short, our lawyer advised us to involve the police. After spending over two hours explaining the situation, the response we received was essentially: “So what would you like us to do?” At this stage, it feels as though there is little recourse unless a minor traffic violation occurs—then enforcement suddenly becomes very efficient.
Stay away from Bramcity Logistics, A-Kan Insurance, and First Choice (owned by Bramcity, out of Alberta). They currently owe between $500k to $600k to drivers, and the majority of their equipment has been seized by the bank.
I will update this post as more information becomes available.
We reached out to their insurance broker, A-Kan Insurance, to file a claim. Two months later, we still have not received any response from their insurance company.
It took approximately one month for Loadlink to review Bramcity’s inactive MC status and remove them from their system. While Loadlink claims to protect its clients through various security measures, in reality, inactive carriers are still being displayed as active and allowed to move freight. There has been no accountability from Loadlink regarding this issue. Although we did not necessarily expect accountability, we did expect that a platform charging thousands of dollars per month would at minimum ensure that carriers shown as active are properly authorized.
Returning to A-Kan Insurance—this is now the second incident where a carrier insured by A-Kan has damaged freight and we have received no response whatsoever from A-Kan. In the previous incident, it took nearly one year to obtain any form of resolution. They do not answer phone calls, nor do they appear to have staff available at their Oakville office. We have visited in person multiple times and consistently found the office closed, with uncollected mail in front of the door.
As a result, we have decided that we will no longer partner with any carrier insured by A-Kan Insurance. While I am not a 30-year veteran of this industry, I do have sufficient experience to state that A-Kan appears to be operating in a highly questionable manner, and it raises serious concerns as to whether some of their clients are insured at all. The policy document issued to Bramcity even shows the word “BIND” under the policy number field.
We filed a complaint with RIBO and were told that, under Ontario’s PIPEDA privacy laws, A-Kan is not required to share their client’s “personal information.” First, an insurance company name is not personal information. Second, this effectively creates a loophole where a trucking company could operate using fraudulent insurance documentation, save tens of thousands of dollars, and refuse to verify coverage by citing PIPEDA. When this was pointed out, the RIBO representative had no response.
In short, our lawyer advised us to involve the police. After spending over two hours explaining the situation, the response we received was essentially: “So what would you like us to do?” At this stage, it feels as though there is little recourse unless a minor traffic violation occurs—then enforcement suddenly becomes very efficient.
Stay away from Bramcity Logistics, A-Kan Insurance, and First Choice (owned by Bramcity, out of Alberta). They currently owe between $500k to $600k to drivers, and the majority of their equipment has been seized by the bank.
I will update this post as more information becomes available.
A-KAN would only be the insurance broker. The insurance company would be listed on this Ins. cert. Should say Northbridge or Intact for example with the policy #. Call them direct.
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A-Kan issued a BIND to Bramcity which hides the actual insurance policy number. Also, the COI issued by them to all parties have the wrong insurnace company name.
@actvbroker While Bramcity is DNU in our system due to their Authroities being revoked, we did have a COI on file with a valid date. I am sure the policy is no longer active, but figured I would share the info with you anyway. Hope it helps you:
If you look closely, the policy numbers do not horizontally line up with the dates. Lloyds is spelled wrong. The policy noted on this cert does not match with the last one on FMCSA. You should have received a notice from the broker that the certificate was revoked. You may be looking at a fraudulent document.
If it is accurate, and the certificate generator is 2nd rate, the auto liability policy is on facility insurance (denoted as policy starting as CFA and Nordic being the provider). This generally means that they cannot obtain insurance through the regular markets. Do you really want your freight going down the road on carriers who cannot get insurance through the market and are stuck with facility?
If it is accurate, and the certificate generator is 2nd rate, the auto liability policy is on facility insurance (denoted as policy starting as CFA and Nordic being the provider). This generally means that they cannot obtain insurance through the regular markets. Do you really want your freight going down the road on carriers who cannot get insurance through the market and are stuck with facility?
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Thanks for your help, Jim. I was able to get that information as well. Had we known that Bramcity was providing false information to every company, we wouldn't have used them. We have stirred the pot with their active insurance company at that time and hopefully we get somewhere with them. But for time being, A-kan is on our blacklist for sure.
There seems to be a growing number of crooked insurance brokers walking in step with the crooked carriers. The quicker the insurance companies boot them from the list of valid brokers the better. I don't think that Lloyds would put up with a broker playing games.
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There is not a scam known to man that these clowns will not pull. If there is one do not let them know or they will be pulling it as well. We as an industry are our own worst enemy.