https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/opinion/justice-is-coming-for-victims-of-illegal-migrant-truckers/

A facet of the trucking industry little known to the general public has had a big impact on highway safety — and last week a US Supreme Court ruling ensured that it will have to take responsibility for the rigs it helps send out on the road.

That means innocent Americans who have been maimed or killed in big-rig crashes caused by negligent truck drivers may finally pursue justice.

And freight brokers that chase profits by contracting with unsafe trucking carriers — particularly those that hire unvetted illegal-immigrant drivers — will have to rethink their business practices.

The court’s unanimous 9-0 decision in Montgomery vs. Caribe Transport II, issued Thursday, cleared the way for victims to sue freight brokers for alleged “negligent hiring.”

Trucking industry veterans and victim advocates who have been ringing the alarm on Wall Street brokers’ shady practices are rejoicing in response.

“We are profoundly grateful to God for this miracle,” Shannon Everett of American Truckers United told me.

“This ruling clearly recognizes that highway safety demands full accountability from every participant on our nation’s roadways.”

Freight brokers are the industry’s middlemen.

They handle the logistics of connecting producers that have goods to be moved to carriers whose trucks and drivers can get those goods to buyers.

But for years, Everett said, brokers have “operated behind a shield of presumed immunity.”

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