Licensing & Insurance
Auto transport is an industry where it pays to verify who you're working with, so rather than just tell you we're licensed and insured, here's exactly how to check it yourself, and what each piece actually means.
Verify Our Licensing Directly
Barakah Holdings LLC operates under active federal broker authority:
You can look up both numbers yourself on the FMCSA's public SAFER System (safer.fmcsa.dot.gov). It will show our registered operating status, entity type, and authority history. This is public record, and we'd encourage you to check it before booking with us or with anyone else in this industry. It's a genuinely useful habit: the SAFER lookup is the fastest way to confirm a company's authority is real and active, rather than relying on claims made on a website.
Federal Authority Verification
Official registration details on public record
What "Broker" Means, and Why It Matters
Barakah Holdings is registered with FMCSA as a property broker, not an asset-based motor carrier. In practice, that means we don't own or operate the trucks that move your vehicle. We coordinate your shipment with carriers, matching your route and vehicle to the right one and managing the process end to end. See how we vet carriers
This distinction matters because the two entity types carry different financial-responsibility requirements, explained below.
Our Broker Bond
As a federally licensed property broker, Barakah Holdings maintains the FMCSA-required $75,000 broker surety bond (BMC-84/85). This bond is a financial-responsibility requirement specific to brokers. It exists to protect against certain broker-side failures, and it's separate from the cargo insurance that covers your vehicle during actual transit.
How Cargo Insurance Works
Because Barakah operates as a broker, the cargo insurance covering your vehicle in transit is carried by the individual carrier assigned to your shipment, not by us directly. This is standard for the broker model industry-wide. The important part is how carefully those carriers are vetted before one is assigned to your shipment, which is exactly what our carrier vetting covers. See how we vet carriers
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I verify that Barakah Holdings is a licensed, legitimate broker?
Look up our USDOT (4550299) and MC (1807013) numbers directly on the FMCSA's SAFER System. That's the same verification step we'd recommend for any auto transport company, not just us.
Is Barakah Holdings a broker or a carrier?
A broker. We coordinate your shipment with carriers we check for each shipment rather than operating trucks ourselves. How a licensed broker works with carriers
What does the broker bond actually cover?
It's a financial-responsibility requirement specific to property brokers under FMCSA regulation, separate from the cargo insurance on your specific vehicle, which is carried by the carrier handling your shipment.
Who insures my vehicle during transit?
The individual carrier assigned to your shipment carries the cargo insurance covering your vehicle, part of why our carrier vetting process matters as much as our own licensing. See how we vet carriers
Ready to ship?
Have questions about licensing, insurance, or how a specific shipment is covered first? Contact us and we're glad to walk through the details directly.