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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Tractor trailers at a facility in Salinas, California. Photographer: Josh Edelson/Bloomberg The high court’s decision may expose freight brokers to potentially enormous lawsuits, squeeze smaller carriers and drive up the cost of transporting almost everything that ships by truck. Daniel Ilg started out in the freight brokerage industry at 14 years old, learning from his dad how to match trucking companies with loads of goods that needed to move around the country. About two decades later, now running the business his father started, Ilg is more worried than ever that choosing one wrong trucker could put it at risk. A US Supreme Court decision in May changed the stakes for freight brokers like Ilg, opening them to lawsuits if a driver for a contracted carrier gets into a collision.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Tractor trailers at a facility in Salinas, California. Photographer: Josh Edelson/Bloomberg The high court’s decision may expose freight brokers to potentially enormous lawsuits, squeeze smaller carriers and drive up the cost of transporting almost everything that ships by truck. Daniel Ilg started out in the freight brokerage industry at 14 years old, learning from his dad how to match trucking companies with loads of goods that needed to move around the country. About two decades later, now running the business his father started, Ilg is more worried than ever that choosing one wrong trucker could put it at risk. A US Supreme Court decision in May changed the stakes for freight brokers like Ilg, opening them to lawsuits if a driver for a contracted carrier gets into a collision.
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