Terry Cummings from Roanoke Trade Services and attorney Cameron Roberts of Roberts & Kehagiaras LLP will discuss what Custom Brokers and Freight Forwarders should know about the recent changes to the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and Map 21 laws. These changes impact our liabilities whenever a surface transportation company is hired.
It’d be difficult to find two more knowledgeable people in the entire United States regarding this topic and we will have them here, together, in Portland. Don’t miss your chance.
Among the topics to be discussed:
What do the regulations state?
o How do they affect you?
o What are your present liabilities with your present business processes?
o Do you have the proper authority to do what you are currently doing?
o Recommendations on how to lesson your liabilities
o How much liability have I assumed by issuing a delivery order or pick-up order to my surface
transportation provider?
o Examples of legal court cases and precedence set by them
o What relationship should you have with your surface transportation provider
o Contracts? Why are there so many, many pages, and so different than what we are used to seeing in the import/export world?
