NASHVILLE, TENN.: The man who formed the corporation now seeking to settle multiple lawsuits against Pilot Flying J, the company headed by Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, heads a trucking association of which Pilot is a member and major contributor.
Lane Kidd, an Arkansas resident, filed incorporation papers for National Trucking Financial Reclamation Services LLC on April 22, just days after the FBI conducted a widely publicized raid on Pilot’s Knoxville headquarters.
Two days later, National Trucking filed the class-action suit leading to the proposed settlement. That led other trucking companies to argue in court filings that Kidd’s firm was a “shell” company, “hastily conjured in Arkansas” for resolving the civil cases against Pilot, which has been accused by federal authorities of cheating trucking companies out of promised rebates.