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When the Broker Who Hired the Truck That Changed Your Life Tries to Walk Away You may not have known what a freight broker was before the truck hit you or someone you love. You know now. A freight broker is the company that sits between the shipper — the business whose cargo needs to move — and the motor carrier whose driver and truck actually do the moving. The broker does not own the truck. The broker does not employ the driver. But the broker chooses who does, charges for the arrangement, and profits from every load it puts on the road. When that choice goes wrong and a truck causes a catastrophic injury, the broker’s first move is almost always the same: “We did not operate the truck. We are not responsible. Federal law protects us.” For years, that argument worked. Brokers like C.H. Robinson — one of the largest third-party logistics platforms on earth, publicly traded, generating billions in annual revenue — invoked a federal statute called the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994, known as F4A, to argue that state negligence claims against them were preempted. Blocked. Thrown out of court before a jury ever…