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LEASING REGULATIONS VIOLATED * USA
* Utah - OOIDA v. C.R. England: Truckers awarded $1.3 million
Lake City,UH,USA -Land Line, by Sandi Soendker -14 March 2013: -- For more than 10 years, OOIDA chased C.R. England through a legal maze of twists and turns on behalf of truckers taken advantage of by the Salt Lake City-based mega-carrier. This week, Judge, Ted Stewart, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah signed his name one more time in the case of OOIDA v. C.R. England, entering final judgment in favor of truckers. The court awarded the class more than $1.3 million... The class-action lawsuit was first filed in 2002 and went to trial in federal court in 2006. In 2007, Judge Stewart found C.R. England in violation of the federal Truth-in-Leasing regulations, ruling that the lease agreement C.R. England used with its owner-operators between 1998 and the summer of 2002 violated the federal regulations. He ruled that C.R. England’s Independent Contractor Operating Agreement violated the charge-back, forced-purchase and escrow provisions of the leasing regulations... In the 2007 decision, the court also held that C.R. England’s lease violated the escrow provisions of the leasing regulations, and specifically found that the motor carrier had improperly managed truckers’ escrow accounts. The case has remained active these past years due to lengthy court-ordered accounting of every escrow fund managed by CRE...
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