The Supreme Court answered one question. It left the industry with a harder one.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport: brokers can be sued in state court when an unsafe carrier causes injury. 

The harder question is the one the Court left open: what exactly is an unsafe carrier when the FMCSA doesn’t rate more than 90% of the carriers operating today? 

That standard will be built case by case, in state courts across the country. The companies that build documented, data-driven carrier vetting processes now will be the ones setting it. The ones that don’t will be defending against it. 

On June 5 at 1:30 PM CT/ 2:30 PM ET, Jett McCandless sits down with Matthew Leffler, The Armchair Attorney, transportation lawyer, and one of the first legal voices to analyze the ruling on the day it dropped for a plain read of what the decision says, what it doesn’t, and what every shipper, broker, and 3PL should have in place right now. 

No slides. No sales pitch. The conversation the industry needs. 

What you’ll learn: 

• What the Court actually held in Montgomery v. Caribe and the questions it deliberately left for state courts to answer 
• Why more than 90% of carriers are listed as unrated by the FMCSA, and what that gap means for reasonable care 
• What a defensible carrier vetting process looks like in practice: the data points, the documentation, and the workflow 
• How the duty of reasonable care extends beyond booking into in-transit oversight, and what you should have on record when something goes wrong 
• What courts will use to define the standard going forward, and how the companies moving first are positioning themselves 
• The three questions every broker, shipper, and 3PL should be able to answer before the next case