Why Truckload Spot Rates Just Hit All-Time Highs — And Why This Is Only the Beginning

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous 9-0 decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II that is already reshaping the $800-billion-plus truckload brokerage sector. A broader compliance crackdown has been underway for months. Reindustrialization and near-shoring trends have been pulling capacity inland. Those forces were already tightening the market. The Supreme Court’s decision removed the liability shield brokers had long relied on, but this will take months and years to work out. Read more here.