Originally published at: C.H. Robinson makes its legal written case before SCOTUS on broker liability - FreightWaves
C.H. Robinson has filed its brief with the Supreme Court on the issue of broker liability.
CH Robinson is known far and wide as the biggest crook in the business. Nothing but cheap freight. Super cheap. If they had to prove what the shipper pays on a load, they would be bankrupt overnight. I owned five trucks for 14 years. I learned one thing my first 3 months. Don’t call CH Robinson. You won’t make a dime, and there’s always problems. No sympathy for them at all.
CH Robinson is fighting the good ■■■■■ on this one. They pushed this issue up to SCOTUS when they could have taken the temporary win with the two previous rulings. This an important issue not just for brokers but for carriers as well. If the FMCSA cannot clearly define what constitutes a “safe” carrier than how can an unaffiliated business that does occasional contract business with a carrier be liable for utilizing an “unsafe” carrier? I would hate to have to operate in an industry where carriers are declared safe or unsafe by brokers without any tangible evidence to support it and have black list effect keeping them from having access to freight. As an extension of this, if brokers had to start purchasing liability insurance that had to as a regular course of business provide coverage on every accident that a carrier had while pulling their freight the need for margins to more than double would become standard.