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The demonstrations in D.C. on their 20th day Wednesday reached an apex with a meeting in the White House.
Attendees Sergey “C.J.” Karman, head of the EzLogz electronic logging device software provider, and independent owner-operator Mike Landis were invited to attend a meeting with President Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and Jim Mullen, acting administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Landis also heads the United States Transportation Alliance, a group he and others launched in 2018 following experiences demonstrating ahead of the implementation of the federal electronic logging device mandate.
Chief in the discussion, Karman noted in a post-meeting round-up for gathered owner-operators and other truckers Wednesday, were issues of transparency in brokered transactions, the phenomenon of double brokering, and widespread allegations of reverse price gouging. Karman said the issues had been assigned for investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey, which is also the office heading up the Department of Justice’s COVID-19 Hoarding and Price Gouging Task Force, created by the Attorney General in March.
DOJ’s public affairs office did not respond to Overdrive inquiries about reports of an investigation.
