Few court decisions have the power to reshape how freight moves in America. Montgomery v. Caribe is one of them. At the heart of this Supreme Court case is a question the trucking industry has wrestled with for years — where does a broker’s responsibility end and a carrier’s begin when something goes wrong on the road?
The answer matters to everyone in the supply chain. For brokers, it could redraw the line on liability exposure and change how carrier vetting, contracts, and insurance requirements are handled going forward. For carriers, it raises the bar on what shippers and intermediaries will demand before a load ever gets tendered. And for shippers, it forces a hard look at who they trust to move their freight and what happens when that trust breaks down.
This isn’t just a legal story. It’s an operational one. The ruling touches negligent selection claims, federal preemption, contractor relationships, and the everyday decisions made at freight desks across the country.
FreightWaves is following every development — the arguments, the ruling, the fallout, and what it all means in practical terms for the people actually moving freight. If you broker loads, run trucks, or ship product in the United States, this coverage belongs on your radar.
A recent appellate court decision that went against Penske-related companies has spurred two trucking trade groups into action.
There is a question hanging over the small carrier world right now, and two of the most knowledgeable transportation attorneys in the country did not flinch from it when they sat down separately on The Long Haul. The question is whether the small carrier, the one-truck owner-operator and the five-truck fleet, still has a viable […]
A new report quoting one insurance executive has startling observations about broker insurance.
Two other cases can be added to the list of litigation on the question of broker liability.
A circuit court handed down two decisions that negatively impact Penske-related companies.
A push to hold shippers liable suffered another setback in Texas.
It may have been an earnings call, but there was a nuclear verdict at the center of C.H. Robinson’s earnings call.
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) A Dallas County jury last week hit freight broker C.H. Robinson with a share of a $604 million verdict in Peyton Lipe et al. v. Lupus Superior, LLC et al. The case stems […]
Landstar System said the truck brokerage market has begun to reshape in the wake of the Supreme Court’s broker liability ruling.
Wall Street sold off freight brokerage stocks following a nuclear verdict in Texas.
A big nuclear verdict against C.H. Robinson needs new arguments after Montgomery.
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) The Supreme Court’s Montgomery decision changed the litigation landscape for the trucking industry. Although the case addressed a negligent selection claim against a freight broker, plaintiffs will not limit their investigations to the […]
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) C.H. Robinson is having an AI moment. Its CEO, Dave Bozeman, has been publicly promoting the company’s Lean AI transformation, including AI agents, automation, productivity gains, appointment scheduling, quote responses, load tracking, and […]
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) When I interviewed Michael Leizerman, the plaintiff attorney who won at the United States Supreme Court in the broker negligent selection case now reshaping freight litigation, I expected pushback from the audience. More […]
The groundbreaking Montgomery case will head back to the federal district court where it began.
Montgomery has spurred a new policy at Highway.
C.H. Robinson has been removed as a defendant in a case that might have been key post-Montgomery litigation.
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) On May 22, 2026, the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II that removed a legal shield freight brokers have relied on for decades. Eleven […]
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) A broker has a load and three carriers willing to haul it. Which one is safe? For all the data our industry supposedly drowns in, there is still no dependable way to answer […]
Truckload carriers appearing at an investor conference this week laid out the thesis for a sustained period of rate recovery.
