Originally published at: 60 Minutes blows open notorious chameleon carrier network - FreightWaves
Rob Carpenter breaks down what it was like working with 60 Minutes on their explosive segment about chameleon carriers and the Super Ego network.
Appreciate Rob and CBS for bringing this to light.
Thank you.
In the 60 Minutes episode there’s a phone call between a driver and SuperEgo dispatch over altered rate confirmation documents.
I’m that driver.
I have a pretty distinct voice - here’s me speaking at a California legislative hearing in 2002 with my name linkable to my Reddit username:
LOL. Compare voices.
Here’s the story behind the phone call:
The very first load I did for SuperEgo involved a beer pickup at a brewery. Said brewery took 20+ hours to load me. It happens, not SuperEgo’s fault.
Broker was JB Hunt.
The next load I got happened to also be a JB Hunt load. At some point on the second load JBH called me to see where I was. It was all going fine, and I asked them “hey let’s switch gears a second, can you talk to me about detention on that previous load, load number ■■■ whatever?”
I negotiated just a hair over $700 of detention and I had them send me the revised ratecon to me and SuperEgo.
JBH did so, and put them out as separate emails for whatever reason.
A few hours later SuperEgo dispatch calls me and said “Good news, we got you $300 worth of detention!”
Oh really? Sure guys, send me that ratecon will you? It took them a few hours but they did so.
I then compared the two side by side. Fascinating. Whatever they use to do the edit was designed for cheating because it didn’t leave a metadata record in the PDF file showing a different editor touched the thing.
Now here’s where I have to give JB Hunt some credit, at least the brokerage side, because they confirmed in writing that the SuperEgo version was fake. That’s what I submitted in my lawsuit.
The day after this went down I got a phone call from the JB Hunt trucking company side driver recruitment as they thought I might be looking for a new gig. LOL! I’m not complaining about that, but I think it’s pretty funny.
But overall JB Hunt brokerage came out looking really good in all this. No complaints.
If anybody involved in the story wants to talk, 1.jim.march -at- gmail.com
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OMG! I’ve been in the industry 38 years and had absolutely no idea this sort of thing was happening. Thanks 60 Minutes and thanks Freightwaves for bringing this to our attention. Keep us apprised on this developing-breaking story. How they slipped underneath the industry’s and Federal Regulatory nose is beyond me! Let’s clean this mess up.