For Immediate Release

Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association

1 NW OOIDA Drive, Grain Valley, MO 
E-mail:ooida@ooida.com 
Web site: www.ooida.com

Phone: (816) 229-5791 Fax: (816) 427-4468

Attention: News Editors/News Directors

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Truckers in Landstar case

Oct. 13, 2006, Grain Valley, MO – Confusing reports are being circulated about a ruling from the U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division, in the class-action lawsuit filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association on behalf of truck drivers against Landstar System Inc.

The ruling is actually substantially in favor of the class, which is defined as all owner-operators who are or have been leased to Landstar or its operating companies Ranger, Ligon and Inway beginning Nov. 1, 1998 and continuing through the resolution of the lawsuit.

There are an estimated 27,000 individuals included in the class and potential monetary damages are estimated at more than $42.7 million.

Attached please find the following links for further clarification and information:

A PDF of the ruling signed Oct. 6, 2006, by U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr.:
http://www.ooida.com/legal_action/10-06-6%20landstar%20summ%20judgement.pdf

A copy of OOIDA’s press release issued following the ruling: 
http://www.ooida.com/legal_action/Landstar/101006_Landstar_sum_judge_PR.htm

A Land Line Magazine story on the ruling, which was posted Oct. 12, 2006: http://www.landlinemag.com/Special_Reports/2006/Oct06/101206_Landstar_update.htm

For additional information and comments, please contact OOIDA General Counsel Paul Cullen Sr. in Washington, DC, at (202) 944-8600.

Founded in 1973, the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is composed of more than 144,000 owner-operators, professional drivers, and small business truckers from all 50 states, and Canada. OOIDA represents the interests of this nation's more than 350,000 small-business trucking professionals in the legislative and regulatory processes at both federal and state levels.