Ronald H. Usem is a transportation attorney and partner at Minneapolis-based law firm of Huffman, Usem, Saboe, Crawford & Greenberg. Mr. Usem also serves on the Director’s Circle of the Board of Directors of the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the professional organization of the third-party logistics industry.   Mr. ...

Brokers who don’t exercise “due diligence” by thoroughly investigating carriers before hiring them could be at legal risk. Tools like our CarrierWatch monitoring system do that work for you, without adding extra administrative staff. In our opinion—shared by many others—carrier monitoring is critical to the long-term success of the broker ...

In a recent survey of trucking companies monitored by CarrierWatch, TransCore’s powerful carrier monitoring system, we found the following: ·         74 percent have never received a safety rating ·         20 percent of awarded safety ratings are more than ten ...