The new standard: Carrier vetting after Montgomery

The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport changed the liability landscape for everyone who selects a carrier. Brokers, shippers, and logistics providers now face a clear standard: carrier selection decisions must be documented, data-driven, and defensible. 

The question is no longer whether your vetting process is good enough. It is whether you can prove it. 

Join Jett McCandless, Founder and CEO of project44, and Cassandra Gaines, Founder and CEO of Carrier Assure and expert witness in broker liability cases, for a candid conversation on what the new standard of care looks like in practice, and how leading organizations are already meeting it. 

What you’ll learn: 

• What plaintiffs’ lawyers look for when building a negligent hiring case, and what separates defensible companies from vulnerable ones 
• Why visibility alone is no longer enough, and what defensible freight decisioning looks like going forward 
• How AI-powered procurement and autonomous execution create the documented record the Court now demands 
• How fraud, double brokering, and identity risk are exploiting gaps in traditional carrier vetting 
• Why contractual broker vetting requirements are now a baseline risk management practice, not a nice-to-have 
• What to do at pickup, and why actual knowledge of carrier conduct creates legal exposure if the shipment moves anyway 
• What shippers and brokers should do right now to build a carrier operation that is defensible by design