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[This article draws excerpt content from two of my previous articles here on this subject: Common Fallacies of Shipper-Broker-Carrier Contracting, December 2, 2022; and, 3PL Learns Real World Cost of Agreeing to Broad Form Indemnity, January 11,2023.] Recently, a major big-box retailer (“Shipper”) announced to intermodal and

The Dilemma If you have participated in the third-party logistics sector as a shipper, broker, or carrier, you have likely seen the short-sighted transportation services agreement, which unnecessarily leverages brokers and carriers to accept defense and indemnity over issues that are not their responsibility. One version portends

Status is online Paul Stewart Logistics and Transportation Law/Commercial Transactions- Representing National Logistics Companies,Shippers and Carrier 55 articles In this time of severe limitation on over-the-road motor carrier capacity, the practice of “double-brokering” a load is rampant. Those interested in this article from the title most likely

In two previous articles I have written on some of the following observations regarding cargo claims management: At least 80% of the top 20 (revenue volume) 3PLs do not accept cargo claims liability, even though they may offer cargo claims processing to shipper customers. All such 3PLs

Third party logistics (3PL) companies often serve their shippers as truck brokers (property brokers) who are defined by statute and regulation to be… “a person, other than a motor carrier or an employee or agent of a motor carrier, that as a principal or agent sells, offers

I represent a number of third party logistics companies, and have been an operating executive in three such companies. So, I want to make it clear that all of the lessons I portray here, of course, are about and drawn from logistics companies other than the one

The highly entrepreneurial third party logistics sector is at times difficult to discipline to all the many legal requirements which may be involved in any particular logistics project. I have had more than one client assume they could make a contract with a shipper of product for

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