Supreme Court rules 9-0 trucking broker can be sued after deadly crashes

This guy legals.

 

While i have mixed feelings on this one. Wonder what thats going to do to #### tier carriers/brokers like cramazon and super ego. The have some of the most abismal drivers in the industry and relied on the "they arent our trucks" excuse. That could backfire big time now.

Going to suck for the new guys though. Hell even O/Os like me who have been leased on for a long time are going to have one hell of a time using our own numbers or leasing to new carriers i bet.

 

If it makes it more difficult for new O/O it will also stop these scam companies just opening up under a new name and number. The crazy Amazon drivers and super ego all hiding behind the idea of we are not a trucking company or responsible for what the driver does. When they set the schedule and demand drivers to thing that are not legal. It hard to tell if this will have impact on that part of trucking.

if the broker can be held liable for the illegal or unqualified driver or just not giving drivers enough time to rest and sleep. The scam drivers and fake companies is very big today. We see all bad wrecks of people getting killed because so many unqualified companies and driver. Every one is hiding behind shell game of companies and independent drivers.

 

Pretty much, this seems like a nuclear option for fixing a lot of issues at once. The only question remains is how often will it be enforced and how will brokers respond to putting up legal barriers that protect them better before its business as usual but harder for ligit drivers.

Also what new laws will be passed and/or lobbied for to prevent this from going into effect. I can easily see super ego or cramazon pushing laws to make it hard or imposible to sue THEM but leaving everyone else involveds ##### to flap in the wind.