Law
Treating brokers as carriers is risky business
Brokers should be considered just arrangers, not providers
Q I think a big issue for brokers is getting shippers to draft a contract that make us arrangers of transportation and ...
Law
What if there is no contract?
Carriers should understand the default rules of the road
Q We hauled a load for a shipper based upon a simple load confirmation sheet from a broker that had only the ...
Law
FMCSA should delay CSA 2010 release
Vicarious liability, misused data are a bad mix
By Henry Seaton
Q We heard that on behalf of some small trade associations you have opposed implementation of Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010. If ...
Law
Are you working your CSA numbers?
Vicarious liability has shippers, brokers worrying
By Henry Seaton
Q We are a motor carrier and operate about three dozen over-the-road trucks, including company equipment and owner-operators. We are heavily dependent on ...
Law
Don't throw the broker out with the bathwater
Hiking the bond requirement won’t fix industry’s ills
Q We are a small carrier who occasionally hires other companies to transport our hometown shipper’s freight when its need for ...
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Law
Say goodbye to comfort in claims
FMCSA abandons cargo insurance filing for carriers
By Henry Seaton
Q The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration abandoned the cargo insurance filing requirement. As a medium-sized broker, a third of our losses ...
Law
If it’s broke, you may have to eat it
‘Better safe than sorry’ a headache for foodstuff haulers
By Henry Seaton
Q We are a broker of perishable commodities. We hired a carrier that transloaded a load of ...
Law
SEA score sinks drayman
Leave safety issues to FMCSA where they belong
Q We are a small drayman that must depend upon the steamship lines to interchange containers and chassis for delivery of our customer’s freight as ...
Law
No assurance from insurance
Certification isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on
Q As a broker, we tendered a load of beer to a newly authorized carrier that produced a certificate of insurance showing $100,000 in cargo ...
Owner-operator model still threatened and more
Owner-operator model still threatened
By Henry Seaton
Q Is the new healthcare bill going to make us convert our independent contractors to employees?
A There is nothing in the healthcare bill that addresses reclassification directly, but ...
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- August 21-22
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