Man, my uncle told me the same thing about checking boards and I thought he was nuts lol.

The extra 40 miles thing is what gets me. That driver wasn't just late, he was using your car to run errands. I've heard of guys doing this, picking up a car and treating it like a free rental for the week, hitting drive-thrus, visiting a girlfriend two towns over, whatever. The $80 "fuel" thing is the tell too, because if the rate was locked in, that cash is going straight in his pocket and there's nothing you can do once your car is on his rig. What I'd want to know is how you even go after someone for that, because most of these brokers just connect you to a random carrier and then wash their hands of it. The pickup window matters way more than people admit, since a carrier who shows up when they say usually runs a tighter operation overall.