May 14, 2026 Supreme Court Ruling (9-0)
The Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II ruling exposes every freight broker to state negligence law for carrier selection. The June 2 Executive Order reinforced reasonable care documentation at the federal level. Are you still relying on onboarding platforms to prove shipment-level compliance?
Get a Montgomery Certificate — see pricing belowWith the Supreme Court's 9-0 ruling on May 14, 2026, the era of FAAAA preemption shielding brokers from negligent selection claims is definitively over. Plaintiff attorneys have been building case files for years, and those cases are now being filed in state courts nationwide.
Coupled with the June 2, 2026 Executive Order, reasonable care documentation requirements now have both federal and state-level regulatory weight. If a carrier crashes and injures a motorist, the broker will be asked to prove — deterministically — that they exercised reasonable care in selecting that specific carrier for that specific load.
In the first post-Montgomery wrongful death case filed in Florida, CHR successfully secured a dismissal without going to trial. Their defense? A timestamped system record proving the carrier was blocked in their system before the load moved. Deterministic evidence wins.
If you are using tools like Highway or MyCarrierPackets, you are proving that you had a compliant onboarding relationship with the carrier. You are looking at a safety score. Neither of those things produce a forensic record of what the carrier actually did during the shipment in question.
When a plaintiff attorney asks for proof of reasonable care, handing them a 6-month-old onboarding PDF is probabilistic guesswork. It will not hold up in court.
| Feature | Highway / MCP | EasyWorth |
|---|---|---|
| Methodology | Probabilistic / Relationship-based | Deterministic / Transaction-based |
| What it proves | Carrier onboarding status | Shipment-level physical verification |
| Legal Defense | Circumstantial | Cryptographically sealed evidence |
EasyWorth doesn't score or assess — we record, cryptographically, at the moment of every carrier handoff. By correlating ELD telemetry, container seals, and physical identity, we generate a tamper-evident certificate for every load. That record is what holds up in court.
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