This past Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a story about Super Ego Holding LLC, an Elmhurst-based motor carrier that has been on HSPRD’s radar for quite some time. Since 2022, HSPRD has represented hundreds of drivers who worked for Super Ego affiliated motor carriers in a class action lawsuit alleging that Defendants paid them less than their contracts required, made unlawful deductions from their wages, and paid them less than the federal minimum wage.
60 Minutes reported that the Super Ego has operated several chameleon motor carriers, closing them and opening new ones whenever a motor carrier’s safety score fell too low. 60Minutes also played a clip of a Super Ego dispatcher offering to edit drivers’ time clocks to allow them to drive over the Department of Transportation hour limits.
In the lawsuit filed by HSPRD, drivers allege that Defendants promised to pay them 88% of the price of each load but secretly paid them less than their contracts required by misrepresenting the price of the loads. Some drivers allege that they received negative paychecks during certain pay periods despite working long hours. The lawsuit further alleges that Defendants often kept drivers’ final paychecks if they quit and made unlawful deductions from drivers’ pay.
HSPRD Shareholder Christopher Wilmes was featured on FOX 32 Chicago discussing the impact these issues have on drivers and the broader trucking industry. HSPRD Partner Emily Brown also works on the Super Ego lawsuit.
HSPRD currently represents hundreds of truck drivers in pending cases against other motor carriers involving similar claims, including violations of federal leasing regulations and state wage and hour laws. We are committed to helping truckers receive justice when they are denied hard-earned wages.
