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[Kevin Rutherford / Let's Truck 🇺🇸 @lets_truck]

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TODAY ON THE SHOW:

The new ruling is in… and the transportation industry is already asking one big question:

What does this mean for brokers, carriers, and liability moving forward?

You are NOT going to want to miss today’s special Industry Insights coverage on the Audio Road Network.

TODAY’S LINEUP:
11 AM ET — Rob Carpenter | The Tea Intel

12 PM ET — Matthew Leffler | Armchair Attorney

1 PM ET — Chris Burroughs, President & CEO of TIA
& Lynn Gravley, President & CEO of NT Logistics

We’re breaking down the SCOTUS Broker Liability Ruling, what just changed, and what the logistics industry needs to be paying attention to right now.

[Kevin Rutherford / Let's Truck 🇺🇸 @lets_truck]

This is deceiving; here are the numbers when total miles driven are taken into account. The worst of the list becomes the best.

That viral "7,757 Lives Lost" carrier ranking is deceiving.

FedEx had 76 fatal crashes despite driving 4.3 BILLION miles. Per 100M miles:
FedEx 0.89,
UPS 0.79
— half the national avg of 1.8.

Actual outlier in the top 10? Tyson Foods at 3.83. Nearly 5x UPS

[Kevin Rutherford / Let's Truck 🇺🇸 @lets_truck]

Look at how deceiving it is to use absolute numbers, instead of crashes per million miles, the way it should be:

The "7,757 Lives Lost" post is bad math dressed up as analysis.

It ranks carriers by total fatal crashes. FedEx Express #1 with 76. UPS #2 with 48. J.B. Hunt, Walmart, Swift — the usual megas. Implication: the giants are killing people.

Here's what the post left out: how many miles each carrier drove.

FedEx Express ran 4.3 billion miles last year. UPS ran 3.2 billion. Of course they show up at the top of an absolute count — they're hauling the equivalent of 17,000 round trips to the moon.
Normalize by miles and the leaderboard flips:

FedEx Express: 0.89 fatal crashes per 100 million miles
UPS: 0.79 — safest on the list
U.S. large-truck average: ~1.8

Both megas run at less than half the national average per mile.

The real outlier in the top 10? Tyson Foods. Smallest fleet on the list, dead last in absolute fatal crashes — and 3.83 per 100M miles. Nearly 5x UPS's rate. More than 2x the national average. Buried at the bottom of the original post.

Absolute crash counts make megas look dangerous. Per mile, they're among the safest carriers on American roads. Anyone using that post to set up a "negligent selection" story against the big brokers is either bad at exposure math or counting on you to be.

Data: FMCSA SAFER snapshots, May 2026.

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