OOIDA vs Ledar ...

• Paying the piper (February 2010 Land Line Magazine Issue)
  • Land Line Now Daily Blog (12/14/09)
• OOIDA pierces corporate veil in case against Ledar (1/4/05)
• SPECIAL REPORT: OOIDA’s case against Ledar in hands of judge (9/1/04)
• Court upholds four-year statute of limitations on OOIDA claims against Ledar Transport; strikes down carrier counterclaims (1/7/04)
• U.S. District Court grants class certification in OOIDA’s second suit against Ledar Transport Inc. (4/15/02)
• Court finalizes payment of damages by Ledar Transport to owner-operators (12/12/01)
• U.S. District Court continues to rule in OOIDA's favor in case against Ledar Transport (10/8/01)
• Action continues in both lawsuits against Ledar Transport Inc. (6/11/01)
• OOIDA prevails in landmark court ruling (11/7/00)
• OOIDA sues Ledar Transport for more leasing violations (5/20/00)

Court Documents...

• Finding of Facts and Conclusions of Law and Judgment (1/4/05)
• Federal court rules in OOIDA's favor in Ledar case (10/9/01)
• Ledar Transport, Inc. (Interim report on escrow accounts, 6/28/01)
• Ledar Transport, Inc. (6/3/99)

Status...

As of mid-November 2007 - Filed March 2000 in U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri. Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. ruled in favor of OOIDA and more than 600 truckers on Dec. 30, 2004. The class includes any trucker leased to Ledar between roughly June 1996 and January 2001.

The judge asked OOIDA’s legal team to submit an accounting of each of the approximately 600 class members’ damages. In April 2007 OOIDA requested about $1 million for the class members. Oral arguments on those damages were scheduled for Nov. 20.

Additionally, OOIDA has filed a complaint against Ledar’s owners – Carl E. Higgs, Alice Norma Higgs, and their son, Scott L. Higgs – with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regarding the family’s new trucking company, SLX Inc. OOIDA contends that the SLX lease agreements are in violation of federal regs, and the Association wants FMCSA to investigate the trucking company and revoke its operating authority.

The FMCSA asked SLX and the Higgs family members to respond, but no response has been filed. OOIDA’s legal team and staff are cooperating with FMCSA officials in the investigation.