Super Ego changes their name to Blue Sky and Sky Freight after 60 Minutes exposed them as a chameleon trucking company..

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merv1985@reddit

There should a law where you can only have maximum 25% of trucks leased on to the MC number. The rest should be company trucks.

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flynnfx@reddit

Never happen.

Amazon has way too much power, as well as Wal-Mart, and both of then would lobby that into extinction. Because that would make them accountable.

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merv1985@reddit

Wal-mart and Amazon do not have leased on model for owner operators.

Wal-mart is private fleet with 100% company drivers and Amazon have a different model where owner-operators need to have their own MC number.

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Correct_Writer_3410@reddit

Walmart distribution centers are full of trailers for mostly third party carriers. Even if their name isn't on the trailer, third party carriers are hauling most of their freight.

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Walmart gets most of their inbound freight from outside companies. They then use their drivers to deliver from the distribution centers to the stores. Sometimes especially in peak season they'll hire on companies to help deliver more trailers to the stores

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weekly-leadership-40@reddit

Walmart uses their power to move between DC’s and stores.

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flynnfx@reddit

I have seen both Amazon and Wal-Mart trailers hauled by 3rd party carriers that didn't have Amazon or Wal-Mart on the side of their trucks.

Source : Wal-Mart using 3rd party carriers.

Source : Amazon using 3rd party carriers.

What source do you have for your statement?

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merv1985@reddit

Walmart and Amazon are different than superego. You are completely wrong to put them in the same category.

Also using 3 party carriers means the 3 party carriers have thier own MC numbers.

When owner operated trucks haul freight for superego they haul it under superego's MC number.

This is the reason for the 60 minutes report.

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Gilgamesh2000000@reddit

Most of amazons dry boxes are moved through 3rd party.

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charonco@reddit

Walmart does not have any leased drivers. None. They do sometimes use third party carriers like Knight and Hirschbach. A lot of the grocery DCa use carriers like Swift and Crete to carry the grocery loads. Walmart has dog in the fight of how many leased drivers a carrier can have like you're suggesting.

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Fr8boss@reddit

I think they're referring to leasing on owner operators, not hiring a third party carrier running under their own name, but I might be wrong. Walmart is trying to hire enough driver to pull their own dairy loads which are nearly all run by third parties currently.

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ID_Poobaru@reddit

Amazon also has a private fleet, but they only run local up to 150mi air radius

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jabber1990@reddit

I thought we wanted LESS government in trucking?

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jmzstl@reddit

Who says that? The cause of the poor state of the industry can be traced back to deregulation. Wages have fallen by 50% since 1980.

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jabber1990@reddit

Thats a complete lie, NOBODY makes 5-13CPM

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jmzstl@reddit

Who said anything about cpm? If you’d like to fact check me, feel free to do your own research on BLS data for average yearly trucker income over the years. Obviously don’t forget to adjust those numbers for inflation.

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jabber1990@reddit

That's how wages are generally calculated: through a wage

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jmzstl@reddit

If you would like to be pedantic about the specific verbiage, I'll edit the post to clarify that I was talking about general yearly income.

I don't know anything about historical cpm rates aside from the fact that it does not account for the many drivers who did not get paid per mile (and still don't).

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flynnfx@reddit

Super Ego happens when there is less government in trucking.

A race to the bottom dollar, with companies running illegally because they know they can get away with it.

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jabber1990@reddit

ALL trucking is race to the bottom because its cheaper for the customer

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charonco@reddit

Deregulation under Carter was when the race to the bottom started. Taking regulations out of trucking is literally what caused the issues we have today.

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jabber1990@reddit

yes, we have so much deregulation that there are MORE regulations now than when I first started in this industry 14 years ago?

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jabber1990@reddit

...they got away with it so hard that there was a 60 minutes interview about it?

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charonco@reddit

After how long?

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Traditional-Emu-7919@reddit

The trailers are most likely in a holding company. No need to change the trailer decal, just the decal on the truck.

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TruckerAlurios@reddit

It's in the name superego Holdings

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HustleTall@reddit

I’ve seen BlueSky trucks hauling super ego trailers more than once before. It’s a sister company of theirs. Other companies I’ve seen hauling their trailers include Floyd and Rocket transportation or expediting I think. But they have more than one sister company.

There’s posts going back years on this subreddit of drivers complaining about Super Ego/Floyd/Rocket.

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Auquaholic@reddit

My friends work for Sky or of El Paso. Seems like they're gonna try to look like them.

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Nearby-Border-5899@reddit

The problem with SuperEgo is they are simply too large to just change their name. They are going to find it hard to be a Chameleon when youre Godzilla lol

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thorin693@reddit

Hey Do Not Insult Godzilla like that.

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20milliondollarapi@reddit

Yea, it’s going to be obvious when drivers are showing up with super ego trailers. Because it is way too much to repaint all of those AND keep up freight.

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JOliverScott@reddit

They don't have to change the name on the trailers, just the DOT/MC#s.

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20milliondollarapi@reddit

Depends on what they are doing it for. To evade legality? Or to evade reputation with clients?

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JOliverScott@reddit

This is why brokers have gotten so intrusive, demanding DOT#, VIN#, license plate #s - they're cross referencing against their own blacklist to prevent carriers from simply changing business names and skirting previous banishment.

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Nearby-Border-5899@reddit

The problem is if they are doing that to evade liability a judge can nullify that real quick. Its been done plenty in the past, idk in trucking but in other industries.

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potatocross@reddit

See it often with people forming LLCs. Sure by name you have limited liability, but when you do something stupid and try to throw the company you are the sole owner of under the bus, the liability can suddenly come right back to you.

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KilljoyTheTrucker@reddit

They literally just have to stay handing out cans of spray paint and vinyl stickers with the new name on it.

Hell, they don't even have to rename the trailers, just cover the super ego name. The trailer number and plate won't need to change either.

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potatocross@reddit

I’ve seen blue sky before though. So how did they just now change it to that?

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kang9400@reddit

Probably purchased their dot and mc so that they can continue to prey on bad drivers.

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FlatbedtruckingCA@reddit (OP)

Probably another company, i believe that company does tankers and delivers DEF.. Super Ego copied them ..

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potatocross@reddit

One I’ve seen is dryvan.

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FlatbedtruckingCA@reddit (OP)

They do tankers also..

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kang9400@reddit

😂 those people are pathetic. But in all honesty any driver who would deal with that company to begin with is probably not a good driver to begin with. That’s why they were able to be predators in the industry. If you f-up just go drive a forklift until you get your head together and give it another try. From my understanding they would take on any driver….sap, accidents, violations etc…. NO REPUTABLE COMPANY will ever take a chance on drivers like that.

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bluebus74@reddit

Andrej Vučić is supposedly shadow owner of this, whose brother is current president of serbia and also buddies with Trump/Epstein. Gee, you think Duffy, under direction from Trump, would allow this to happen?

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