High-Stakes Freight Brokerage: Risk and Accountability
Freight brokerage has become faster and more automated than ever before, but many shippers are finding that lower costs can come with higher risks. FreightWaves and Werner® surveye...
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Freight brokerage has become faster and more automated than ever before, but many shippers are finding that lower costs can come with higher risks. FreightWaves and Werner® surveye...
While the immediate impacts of the ruling have yet to fully take shape, what's clear is that moving forward, freight brokers will have to take on substantially more liability.
Legal experts are urging the freight brokerage industry to bolster its carrier-vetting practices in the wake of Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II.
A Supreme Court ruling is prompting freight brokers to take a closer look at how they select, document and defend carrier decisions.
Several prominent freight brokerages have said the decision, while increasing legal exposure, will also reinforce industry safety practices.
The deal will see WWEX’s transportation brokerage services directly connected to e-commerce management tools used by small and medium-sized businesses.
FreightWaves’ Freight Brokerage Rate Report — sponsored by Truckstop.com — provides a review of the previous quarter and a forecast for the coming months. Featuring responses from...
(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 C...
Amazon’s “asset-backed” less-than-truckload service is based on company-owned equipment and technology, its freight director says.
Transportation attorney Greg Feary breaks down the recent Supreme Court decision that brokers can be held liable for damages in truck accidents and what it means for the trucking i...
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that freight brokers can be held liable for damages if a truck they have contracted with is involved in an accident. Transportation attorney br...
Amazon is expanding its less-than-truckload freight service across the U.S., allowing businesses to ship palletized freight to warehouses, distribution centers, retail partners, an...
Chain's newest AI tool negotiates rates, vets carriers and books routine freight while allowing sales reps to stay in control of high-value, relationship-driven loads. The post AI...
The unanimous decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II eliminates federal preemption as a defense in negligent carrier selection lawsuits. J. J. Keller’s Josh Lovan sat down w...
With its spin-off completed, standalone carrier FedEx Freight wants to reverse recent volume declines by filling more trailers with non-industrial freight.
Tabi Connect's May pricing index found brokers widening margins and gaining pricing power even as spot freight demand continued to soften.
Freight broker Fura announced that it has added another 3PL on its journey to roll up the space through automation. The post AI-powered broker Fura announces latest acquisition app...
As most transportation of cargo and goods, whether in international waters or air space, involves multiple transit destinations and ports, logistics can be a complicated industry....
DO NOT WORK WITH THIS DISHONEST BROKER! COMPLETE DISPATCH ERROR AND CONTRACT TRAP! Blind Pickup: At shipper arrival, the broker hid the delivery address. Even the shipper had no i...
One major takeaway of the Supreme Court’s ruling, according to Jeff Tucker, CEO of Haddonfield, N.J.-based Tucker Company Worldwide, the nation’s oldest privately-held freight brok...
FedEx Freight is pursuing new business in sectors including data center infrastructure, grocery and healthcare to chart its future as a newly independent company.
You can run loads consistently, work with solid brokers, and still feel pressure every week because most invoices take 30, 45, or even 60+ days to get paid. That delay is exactly w...
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