Super Ego, No More

TGIF. C.H. Robinson just cut ties with a carrier network at the center of its racketeering lawsuit, and disputed the rest of the case point by point.

Plus:

• A Rough Month for Trucking

• They Bought a Carrier to Steal the Freight

• $100,000 a Day for Illegal Hauls

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Freymiller claims $___ million in lost sales across 63 customers in its case against C.H. Robinson and TQL.

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📉 A Rough Month for Trucking. Eight trucking companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month, including Xoco Transport, which posted a $609,000 net loss against $3.3 million in liabilities. Globemaster, a 51-truck long-haul carrier out of Illinois running roughly 3.3 million miles a year, filed the same week. Freight-sector layoffs ran close to 2,000 over the same stretch, including 230 jobs at 4XH Logistics in Texas, an Amazon delivery contractor that lost its contract, and 106 at Capstone Delivery in California. At the same time, diesel hit $6.39 a gallon Thursday, near last week's all-time high, according to AAA. At that price, Harvard's Willy Shih says hauling a load cross-country now costs close to $3,000 in fuel.

🎭 They Bought a Carrier to Steal the Freight. A federal jury convicted two men this week for running a cargo theft ring built on purchased, legitimately authorized trucking companies. Arshpreet Singh paid about $22,000 for an established Texas carrier with clean FMCSA authority, then used its name to collect a shipment of TVs that never reached its destination. The group repeated the move months later, buying a second carrier and booking loads through brokers including Uber Freight before vanishing with laptops, solar panels, and more. Prosecutors tied the scheme to at least $2 million in losses. Arshpreet Singh faces up to 20 years at sentencing; his co-defendant, convicted on a lesser count, faces up to five.

⚖️ $100,000 a Day for Illegal Hauls. A bill introduced this week would fine foreign carriers caught hauling domestic freight up to $100,000 per truck, per day. Rep. Brandon Gill's "Trucking Safety and Accountability Act" would fold standardized English-proficiency testing directly into CDL licensing, require carriers to verify driver eligibility or face penalties up to $100,000 per offense, and fund a GPS and ELD geofencing pilot at land ports to catch illegal domestic moves by foreign-domiciled carriers. It would also target "chameleon carriers," denying DOT registration to any carrier whose authority was revoked in the past three years. States that don't cooperate with enforcement risk losing 10% of federal highway funding.

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C.H. Robinson Dumped Its Own Carrier of the Year

C.H. Robinson confirmed this week that carriers operating under the Super Ego holding company, the network at the center of a racketeering lawsuit filed against it last week, are no longer in its system.

The company didn't say when or why the relationship ended, offering only one line: "Super Ego carriers are no longer part of our network."

On September 17, 2025, C.H. Robinson had named Super Ego its "carrier of the year" for fleets over 1,000 trucks.

The Underlying Suit

The underlying suit, filed last week in the Eastern District of Texas, accuses C.H. Robinson and TQL of winning shipper business through carriers that suppressed costs by violating safety and labor rules.

It names Super Ego as one example, though it doesn't name Super Ego as a defendant.

C.H. Robinson described Super Ego as a holding company whose individual trucking companies each carried their own federal operating authority.

"Like all the carriers we work with, they were each in good standing with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration at the time we worked with them," the company said.

Freymiller is the only one of the six plaintiffs to put a number on its claimed losses: $51.2 million in lost sales across 63 customers, which it says it lost as the suppressed-cost carriers undercut its pricing.

Under federal racketeering law, that figure could triple to roughly $153.6 million if the case succeeds.

The Disputed Deposition

C.H. Robinson's response to The Loadstar disputes the complaint point by point. At the center of it is a disagreement over testimony.

The lawsuit claims former carrier-services head Bruce Johnson testified that C.H. Robinson won shipper bids first, then sourced carriers the plaintiffs call "illegal carriers."

C.H. Robinson disputes that account directly: "That is entirely false, and nothing like that appears in the deposition," the company said.

Pricing Defense

C.H. Robinson's chief legal officer, Dorothy Capers, also pushed back on the lawsuit's broader premise, arguing brokers don't set carrier pricing.

"No freight broker sets rates. The marketplace does," she said. She argued that rates rise when carrier supply tightens and fall when capacity is plentiful.

She rejected the idea that C.H. Robinson simply picks the cheapest available carrier, saying its process weighs "carrier proximity, size, equipment, certifications, and customer requirements ranging from sustainability to service levels."

The case is still in its early stages, and none of the allegations have been proven in court. TQL, the other broker named in the suit, hasn't issued a public response yet.

"We look forward to defending ourselves vigorously and pursuing counterclaims supported by real facts and the law," Capers said.

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🚨 Stealing the Semi Was the Easy Part. A man hot-wired a truck and drove off while officers held its keys, but the 20-mile chase that followed ended with 30 years in prison.

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