ELMHURST, Ill. — Super Ego Holding has repeatedly insisted it is not a trucking company.
According to Super Ego, it is merely an equipment leasing business that rents tractors and trailers to more than 1,200 independently licensed motor carriers. Those carriers, the company says, employ their own drivers, hire their own dispatchers and maintain complete control over their operations.
Court records and reported sworn testimony tell a far more complicated story.
Federal lawsuits describe Super Ego and several licensed carriers sharing executives, drivers, equipment, tax documents, fuel cards, settlement statements and dispatch functions. The records suggest that at least some companies presented as independent carriers may have operated as parts of a much larger, coordinated trucking enterprise.
Most importantly, Super Ego founder Aleksandar Mimic reportedly acknowledged under oath that he was chief executive of both Super Ego and Floyd Inc., one of the licensed motor carriers at the center of the alleged network.
If the complete deposition confirms that statement and its context, it would directly undercut the idea that Super Ego and Floyd were unrelated companies connected only by an ordinary equipment lease.
Super Ego says it is not responsible for the carriers
Super Ego issued a public response after a 60 Minutes investigation aired on April 12.
“Super Ego is an equipment leasing company, not a carrier company,” the company said.
Super Ego called the report a misunderstanding and denied allegations involving driver compensation, electronic logging devices, rate confirmations and DOT-number changes.
The company said carriers leasing its equipment maintained full authority over their drivers and dispatchers.
“When a carrier’s driver arrives at a Super Ego facility to pick up a truck bearing the Super Ego name, or causes dangerous conditions on the road, that driver works for the carrier and not for Super Ego,” the company said.
That distinction is legally important.
An equipment company that simply rents a truck to an independent motor carrier would not normally be responsible for the carrier’s drivers, dispatch decisions, safety record or compensation practices.
But that explanation becomes much harder to accept if the leasing company and motor carrier share the same chief executive, administrative systems and driver operations.
Mimic reportedly acknowledged running both companies
Mimic is the acknowledged founder and chief executive of Super Ego Holding.
During an April 2025 deposition, Mimic reportedly appeared as Floyd Inc.’s corporate representative. While discussing a driver-recruitment advertisement, he allegedly corrected an attorney by stating, “I am the CEO in both companies.”
TWOSU News has not obtained the complete deposition transcript, so the surrounding questions and precise companies being discussed still needs independently confirmed.
If the reported account is accurate and Mimic was referring to Super Ego and Floyd, the statement is significant.
It would mean the founder and chief executive of the supposed equipment-leasing business also acknowledged serving as chief executive of a licensed motor carrier operating trucks and paying drivers within the same network.
Commercial business records separately identify Mimic as a key principal of Floyd.
That does not automatically make every carrier leasing Super Ego equipment a subsidiary. It does, however, weaken any blanket assertion that Super Ego and its associated carriers were simply independent companies doing business at arm’s length.
Floyd appears repeatedly throughout the larger operation.
Court filings allege that Floyd issued tax documents to drivers contracted with other carriers, administered fuel cards used by drivers operating under different authorities and received broker payments for freight transported by drivers inside the network.
The same filings allege that equipment leased through Rex Trucking and Ego Express was registered under Floyd.
So Floyd was allegedly involved in equipment, fuel, compensation, freight payments and tax reporting. And according to the reported testimony, Floyd and Super Ego also shared Mimic as chief executive.
That looks like more than a rental agreement.
One driver was connected to several companies
The federal case Atkinson v. Super Ego Holding provides one of the clearest examples of the alleged overlap.
The lawsuit names Super Ego, Mimic, Rex Trucking, Floyd, Kordun Express, Rocket Expediting and Jordan Holdings.
The plaintiffs later identified additional carriers, including Twin Carrier, Trytime Transport, Windy City National Trans and an operation connected to Haidar Dawood.
The lawsuit alleges these carriers were owned or controlled by Super Ego and Mimic and operated interchangeably despite appearing as separate businesses.
Super Ego and the other defendants deny that characterization.
Driver Eugene Walker was contracted to Rocket Expediting, according to the complaint. His weekly settlement statements reportedly carried Rocket’s name, but his federal 1099 tax document was issued by Floyd.
Walker leased his truck through Rex Trucking. Registration records cited in the complaint allegedly showed that truck registered under Floyd, with Ego Express identified as the lessor.
Walker also allegedly received freight documents listing different carriers even though he was operating under Rocket’s DOT and motor-carrier authority.
If the allegations are proven, multiple companies participated in the same driver’s equipment lease, vehicle registration, freight paperwork, settlements and federal tax reporting.
That is not what most people would recognize as a group of completely independent trucking companies.
Floyd allegedly administered fuel cards across the network
The federal lawsuit alleges that Floyd issued fuel cards to drivers working under several different carrier authorities.
Drivers claim the cards received discounted fuel prices at participating truck stops. Their settlements were allegedly calculated using the higher retail price while the discount was kept by the company.
The defendants deny unlawfully withholding compensation or defrauding drivers.
But even without deciding the disputed compensation claim, the arrangement raises another control question.
Why would Floyd administer fuel purchases for drivers who supposedly worked for unrelated carriers?
Centralized fuel purchasing is common within a trucking fleet or corporate group. Its less typical among independent motor carriers whose only connection is leasing trucks from the same equipment company.
Drivers describe one recruitment and operating system
The drivers say their involvement began through Super Ego recruitment advertisements.
Prospective drivers allegedly traveled to Illinois for orientation, sometimes paying their own transportation and drug-testing expenses. After orientation, they obtained tractors through Rex Trucking before being placed with one of several licensed motor carriers.
Their independent-contractor agreements reportedly contained substantially similar terms.
Drivers allege they were required to haul exclusively for their assigned carrier but were sometimes instructed to transport freight involving other companies inside the network.
More than 800 drivers have reportedly joined the federal litigation.
The lawsuit accuses the defendants of misclassifying drivers, making unlawful deductions, withholding escrow funds and altering broker rate confirmations before calculating percentage-based pay.
Super Ego and the carrier defendants deny the allegations.
The defendants have argued that the contracts promised drivers 88% of the “load pay offered,” not necessarily 88% of the total amount received from the freight broker.
No final judgment has determined that Super Ego or the carriers committed the alleged compensation scheme.
Still, the system described by the drivers included recruitment, orientation, equipment leasing, carrier placement, dispatch, fuel purchases and compensation. All reportedly flowing through companies connected to the same operation.
Rate confirmations allegedly passed through shared dispatch operations
Drivers also allege that dispatchers connected to the operation changed broker rate confirmations to show lower freight revenue.
One example cited in the litigation involves a load for which C.H. Robinson allegedly paid Floyd $4,800. The driver reportedly received a confirmation showing the load paid only $3,500 and was compensated using the lower figure.
Plaintiffs say they collected more than 500 rate-confirmation documents and that brokers confirmed discrepancies involving more than 50 loads.
Those are allegations, not final findings. Super Ego denies manipulating rate confirmations and says it does not control dispatchers employed by independent carriers.
The allegation nevertheless raises another issue with Super Ego’s equipment-only explanation.
An ordinary equipment rental company does not normally receive freight-pricing documents, communicate load prices, calculate driver compensation or participate in dispatching freight.
Those are normally functions of a motor carrier or freight brokerage.
Super Ego has publicly acknowledged operating a freight-brokerage subsidiary called Gray Falcon United.
California case resulted in a $1.29 million settlement
Super Ego-related companies also faced labor litigation in California.
The cases identified as 23CV031309 and 24CV062510 named Floyd and several Super Ego entities. Records reviewed by the California Business and Industrial Alliance list a $1.29 million gross settlement reached in July 2026.
The reported settlement involved 70 allegedly aggrieved employees, with 107 employees listed in the case records.
Approximately $430,000 was allocated for attorney fees, along with $60,000 in litigation expenses and $60,000 in penalties under California’s Private Attorneys General Act.
A settlement does not establish liability. Companies often settle labor cases while continuing to deny wrongdoing.
It is still another case where drivers or workers challenged business practices involving Floyd and Super Ego entities together, rather than treating them as distant companies connected only through rented trucks.
Federal regulators are investigating
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration chief Derek Barrs confirmed that Super Ego is part of an ongoing federal investigation.
When 60 Minutes asked whether Super Ego was on the agency’s radar, Barrs said the company was part of an ongoing investigation and referred to a group of ten prioritized companies identified through federal data gathering.
According to DOT data analyzed for the program, carriers connected to Super Ego accumulated almost 15,000 safety violations and approximately 500 reported crashes during a two-year period.
Those figures represent data aggregated from multiple carrier authorities. They are not the safety record of one company operating under a single Super Ego DOT number.
That is exactly why the question of control matters.
If each carrier independently hired, trained and dispatched its drivers, their safety records should be judged separately.
If the carriers shared executives, equipment, driver assignments, dispatch systems and administrative functions, examining each DOT authority separately could hide the true size and safety history of the larger operation.
A trucking company divided across separate names?
No single document proves that every Super Ego-affiliated carrier was controlled by Mimic or Super Ego Holding.
The record, however, describes:
- Mimic serving as Super Ego’s founder and chief executive.
- Mimic reportedly acknowledging that he was CEO of both Super Ego and Floyd.
- Floyd issuing tax documents to drivers contracted with another carrier.
- Floyd administering fuel cards across different carrier authorities.
- Equipment leased through one company and registered through another.
- Drivers receiving settlement statements and paperwork from different companies.
- Similar contractor agreements used across several carriers.
- Drivers allegedly assigned freight across company lines.
- Rate confirmations allegedly passing through connected dispatch operations.
- Super Ego operating its own freight brokerage.
- Federal regulators investigating Super Ego and associated carriers.
Super Ego is entitled to organize separate businesses for equipment leasing, brokerage, dispatch and motor-carrier operations. Many legitimate transportation companies use multiple corporate entities.
The names on the paperwork are not the only thing that matters, though.
What matters is who actually recruited the drivers, controlled the dispatchers, handled the money, managed the equipment and directed the freight.
Super Ego says it merely rents trucks. The company founder’s reported acknowledgment that he also ran Floyd, combined with the shared driver, fuel, equipment and compensation records, gives federal investigators plenty of reason to question whether Super Ego was functioning as the center of an actual trucking operation all along.
