Originally published at: First shots fired at Supreme Court in broker liability case - FreightWaves
The Supreme Court got its first legal arguments as it takes up the issue of broker liability.
Brokers must be held liable for who they hire. Only than will they stop using the cheapest guy on the board and be forced to do business with serious companies with serious concerns for safety of everyone on the road.
You might want to re-think this headline.
If SCOTUS does land in favor of Montgomery, it will open up more questions than it began with because no one can define what amounts to adequate due diligence when a broker contracts with a carrier. The FMCSA has a disclaimer in the Safety Measurement System stating that you should not draw conclusions based on the data provided in the SMS. It has never made sense to place a due diligence burden on brokers if the government can’t even define which carriers are safe or unsafe, doing so amounts to another attorney enrichment scheme.
Foreign people claiming to be international security for Homeland or the FBI or foreign trucker’s are are telling company driver’s your taking my freight at truck stops and putting air tags on their company truck that’s connected to a auto responder phone call voice print recording claiming that that trucking company is not allowed to be at that truck stop ask them to leave the premise. So the foreign people can take over the freight like pick up a load then let insurance pay for not delivering the load then mail it back to ■■■■■■, Istanbul, Dubai, or india