July 24, 2026
A Nebraska federal judge approved $6 million in attorney fees and more than $1.7 million in litigation costs for class counsel in a long-running wage and hour class action brought by truck drivers against a major trucking company as part of a final approval order entered Friday.
February 02, 2026
A Nebraska-based trucking company agreed to pay $18 million to nearly 100,000 current and former drivers to end a more than 11-year-old consolidated class action over unpaid minimum wages, reaching a deal the day before trial was set to begin, according to settlement papers filed in federal court.
March 28, 2025
A trucking company headquartered in Nebraska can't win its bid to decertify two classes of drivers alleging they are owed unpaid minimum wages, a federal judge ruled Friday, finding an individual assessment about how workers were paid isn't necessary.
August 01, 2022
A Nebraska federal judge on Monday ordered a trucking company to turn over data related to work-related messages sent to drivers during time the company categorized as noncompensable, overturning a magistrate judge's recommendation that such data would be too much of a hassle to unpack.
July 27, 2022
A trucking company cannot beat claims that it failed to pay thousands of drivers minimum wage, a Nebraska federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the company didn't show that its compensation system guarantees workers minimum wage.