IC 8-2.1-17-7.5: "Freight forwarder"

Sec. 7.5. "Freight forwarder" means any person that:

(1) holds itself out to the general public (other than as a pipeline, rail, motor, air, or water carrier) as a provider of transportation of property for compensation; and

(2) in the ordinary course of its business:

(A) assembles and consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, shipments and performs or provides for breakbulk and distribution operations of the shipments;

(B) assumes responsibility for the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination; and

(C) uses a carrier subject to this article for any part of the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination.