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CH Robinson in hot water again, as truckers bring 'racketeering' suit. (C) Simon Lehmann 28 September 2026 CH Robinson and Total Quality Logistics (TQL) face a racketeering lawsuit from six US trucking companies that accuse them of winning freight with allegedly non-compliant carriers at prices the plaintiffs could not match. One plaintiff, Freymiller Trucking, says it has identified $51.2m in lost sales across 63 customers. The claimants have not put a total value on the case, but seek damages to be determined at trial - including treble damages under the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The complaint, filed in a Texas federal court on 23 September, alleges that the brokers promised shippers safe, compliant transport while passing loads to carriers that avoided the costs of meeting safety and labour rules. The plaintiffs claim they lost business because they could not match the resulting rates. The six plaintiffs are Stevens Trucking, Western Flyer Express, Freymiller, IWX Motor Freight, Christenson Transportation, and EOS. Their complaint names the Super Ego trucking network as an example of the capacity they allege the brokers used. Super Ego is not a defendant in this case. Among the material included in the filing is a screenshot a former driver says came from his carrier's tracking team. It appears to ask him to avoid weigh stations and offers him an extra $100 if he does. The plaintiffs also cite a former driver's account of being told to put a different company name and registration number on his truck shortly before arriving at a shipper, then remove the details after collection. A message screenshot reproduced in the carriers' court complaint appears to offer a driver $100 to avoid weigh stations. The plaintiffs attribute the message to the driver's carrier, not to CH Robinson or TQL. Image: plaintiffs' complaint, page 24 Still images reproduced in the carriers' complaint appear to show a truck's company markings being changed to Tutash Express. The plaintiffs cite them in support of their allegations about carriers switching identities. The images do not show CH Robinson or TQL directing the change. Images: plaintiffs' court complaint, page 22 Those are allegations about the carriers' practices, not evidence that either broker sent the instructions. The trucking companies' claim is that CH Robinson and TQL knew, or should have known, how the carriers they used were operating. The plaintiffs give examples of the business they say they lost. Freymiller's $51.2m represents alleged lost sales, rather than an award or an established measure of damages. Christenson says its revenue fell from $71.3m in 2023 to $49.8m in 2025, and points to bids for major shippers that it says were repeatedly judged too expensive. The carriers will have to show that the defendants' alleged conduct caused their losses, rather than ordinary competition or other pressures in the freight market. CH Robinson has reportedly rejected the allegations, saying the lawsuit misrepresents its practices and the way freight rates are set. It has reportedly said the carriers it uses are federally authorised and meet additional safety and insurance requirements. The Loadstar has contacted CH Robinson for its statement and any further comment. TQL's response to the complaint has not yet been established. The new suit follows the separate Lipe case, in which a jury returned a $604m verdict following a fatal truck crash. That case concerned responsibility for the crash. The six carriers in this lawsuit say the brokers' choice of trucking companies cost them freight business.

At tech/AI confab, C.H. Robinson tackles insurance and liability. Waiting for judge's affirmation or reduction of Texas nuclear verdict as plaintiffs file formal request. · Tuesday, September 08, 2026 Technology conferences are not usually the place where C.H. Robinson greets an audience of investors, with most of its appearances on the conference circuit focused on transportation and logistics. But the changing legal environment for brokerages was never too far away from the discussion Tuesday at Citi's Global TMT Conference in New York, where C.H. Robinson CEO Dave Bozeman presented along with two colleagues at a tech-focused gathering that often has as many as 2,000 attendees. C.H. Robinson and the rest of the logistics legal community is waiting on a ruling from Dallas County Court Judge Dianne Jones on whether to affirm all or part of the more than $600 million verdict handed down against C.H. Robinson in late July over a fatal 2021 crash in Jackson, Mississippi. C.H. Robinson had hired carrier Lupus Superior, which owned the truck that crashed, killing employee driver Gorgonio Gonzalez as well as a car passenger, Peyton Lipe, the first named plaintiff in the lawsuit. Lupus Superior is based in Texas which is why the case was heard in that state. Formal request is in Attorneys for the plaintiffs last week filed their formal request to the court for entry of the judgment. It noted that the jury had found 45% of the blame assigned to Gonzalez, 45% to Lupus Superior and 23% to C.H. Robinson. But the filing also noted that C.H. Robinson is vicariously liable for that portion of the blame assigned to Gonzalez, who is deceased. The jury also had found that C.H. Robinson was effectively Gonzalez' employee, a ruling that if it stands on appeal could have far-reaching impact on trucking litigation. In the discussion about the landscape for C.H. Robinson and brokers in general, with the Lipe nuclear verdict and the Supreme Court decision in Montgomery vs. Caribe Transport II in the background, C.H. Robinson CFO Damon Lee reiterated comments that Bozeman and other company officials have made recently: FreightWaves, Inc. is in good shape. Lee said C.H. Robinson had an opportunity to settle the Lipe case but chose not to do so. "We feel like we will prevail on appeal," he said. Lee added that 98% of "all our cases either get dismissed or settled. We don't think that trend is going to be disrupted post-Montgomery and post-Lipe." Bozeman said the number of lawsuits C.H. Robinson (NASDAQ: CHRW) is fighting at any given time is in "the lower side of the tens" which he contrasted with "hundreds of millions of shipments." No insurance premium crisis expected On questioning from Citigroup's Ariel Rosa about investor concerns about C.H. Robinson's future, in particular about how much it might need to spend on insurance post-Montgomery and post-Lipa, Lee said he was optimistic about what insurance companies will do when they provide "their verdict" on the company's 2027 premiums, which are now being negotiated. C.H. Robinson expects insurance costs are going to increase by "a very manageable number," he said, "and the majority of it will get passed through freight rates anyway. Ultimately the consumer will bear the majority of that cost." Insurance costs plus claims are "immaterial" at C.H. Robinson, Lee said. They are less than 50 bps of gross revenue and auto liability insurance is only about 25 bps of that, he added. "Even if we did see a material increase in inflation on insurance, it's not going to have a material increase on our earnings," Lee said. "So we feel really good about where we're at." Stock has been impacted C.H. Robinson stock has taken a pounding, particularly after the Lipe nuclear verdict. Its hit a 52-week high of $210.33 on July 22. The Lipa verdict came down two days later. C.H. Robinson's stock price then bottomed out at $141.63 before closing Tuesday at just over $150, up more than 2% on a day when the S&P 500 fell almost 0.6%. Just before the conference began, Citi upgraded its rating on C.H. Robinson's stock to buy from neutral. In its commentary on the move, Citi said it expects that the final judgment from Judge Jones "could be less severe than the initial jury verdict." Citi also said it expects "potential regulatory intervention also driving a more balanced solution," a reference to industry statements that post-Montgomery, the brokerage industry needs guidelines on what constitutes a "safe harbor" set of guidelines on what a 3PL needs to perform in hiring a carrier in a process that protects it from liability in case of a wreck. Bozeman was more specific, saying C.H. Robinson was "working with FMCSA to get a standard through the Department of Transportation." He added that he will be visiting Washington next week to lobby for more clear rules. Oh yeah, Montgomery too Bozeman also downplayed the impact of the Supreme Court's Montgomery decision. While C.H. Robinson was out of the case as a named defendant when it went to the Supreme Court, it had been an original defendant and it led the effort before the nine justices. The unanimous Montgomery ruling precluded brokers from using the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act as a firewall against being found liable or negligent in a case involving a carrier hired by the 3PL. "That's just one defense that's now off," Bozeman said. "We've had to deal with well over 30 states that didn't have that anyway." C.H. Robinson's presence at a tech conference was backed up by Rosa's review of what technology, specifically AI, had wrought at the 3PL: gross profit per employee up 60%, headcount down about 30% and shipments per employee increasing at a double-digit rate. Arun Rajan, C.H. Robinson's chief strategy and innovation officer, said the first two or three years of his five-year tenure at the company saw the company use "traditional software engineering approaches" to produce its internal technology tools. The problem with that approach, he said, is that "a lot of projects wouldn't make the ROI bar because there's a lot of software engineering effort." That gets magnified in the brokerage business, Rajan added, because it's an industry that "is plagued by nuances that are specific to customers and to carriers. We sit in the middle." But projects that a few years ago would not have made that "ROI bar" now can do so because of AI. Coding tools in AI, Rajan said, are "massively better." A team of 500 software engineers at the company "punch like there are 2,000 to 3,000 of them as they start to use coding tools." Beyond that, agentic AI tools are able to "capture the collective knowledge of the company," with the agentic AI tools built on top of large language models (LLMs). "This has created this massive acceleration in our productivity in the last couple of years,." he said. Upcoming FreightWaves Events Compliance Brokerage Compliance Symposium The day before F3. Every compliance issue you face - fraud exposure, carrier liability, FMCSA rules, cargo theft, insurance gaps - navigated by attorneys and operators defining best practices in a changing industry. October 26, 2026 The Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo - Chattanooga, TN F3 Awards Dinner The night before F3. FreightTech100 companies honored. FreightTech 25 and Shipper of Choice winners revealed live. Cocktail reception into dinner and live music - 300 industry leaders in one purpose-built room. 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