Super Ego’s Lease-Only Defense Collides With Thousands of VIN Records

Super Ego’s Lease-Only Defense Collides With Thousands of VIN Records

FMCSA inspection data traces exact trucks and trailers across successive carrier identities, including hundreds of vehicles observed under other carriers after Trytime lost operating authority.

TWOSU News has reported on Super Ego’s operations since 2024 through its verified Facebook page and public Facebook group. That reporting predates the April 2026 60 Minutes broadcast that brought national attention to allegations involving Super Ego and its affiliated carrier network.

This story does not claim TWOSU caused that national coverage, because it didn’t. It establishes something far simpler:

• The questions being raised did not begin with television, or our prior reporting!.

They were visible in Super Ego’s own public record, in its own presentation to prospective employees and in its own actions.

What Super Ego and its attorney say

Super Ego’s attorney has maintained that Super Ego Holding and Floyd Inc. are leasing companies with separate customers, not motor carriers controlling the drivers or carrier companies that use their equipment.

In substance, the attorney’s position is that equipment can be leased to different carriers, that a VIN appearing under more than one carrier can reflect normal re-leasing, and that an FMCSA carrier profile does not necessarily show all equipment owned or leased by a separate leasing company.

The company has also publicly said that Super Ego “does not hire, pay, supervise or contract drivers” for the carriers in its network.

Floyd’s response through public-relations representatives went further, saying Floyd is a leasing company that “does not and has not operated as a carrier for many years.”

Those are significant claims. They would mean Super Ego’s role was limited to equipment and that independent carriers, not Super Ego or Floyd, controlled driver recruitment, pay, dispatch and day-to-day transportation operations.

The public record does not come anywhere close to comfortably fitting inside that explanation!., it shows us the complete opposite.

2022 through early 2026: A company recruiting drivers

For years, Super Ego’s own website directed visitors to a “Driver Application.”

The archived pages promoted:

  • “Competitive Pay”
  • “Paid Weekly”
  • “Non-Forced Dispatch”
  • New trucks and trailers
  • Opportunities for “Owner Operators and company drivers”
  • A “Dedicated Dispatch” operation

The company told applicants to submit an application and get the “job of your dreams.” Its website described dispatchers as working to keep drivers satisfied and successful.

Super Ego’s corporate number, (630) 506-8869, appeared throughout that site. It was paired with “Call a Recruiter.”

That is not a third-party job board. It was Super Ego’s own website, public phone line and recruiting infrastructure, acting as a carrier coordinating trucking activity.

The same number survived the change

In 2026, Super Ego’s public language shifted.

“Driver Application” became “Apply for Lease.” “Call a Recruiter” became “Call Now.” The website emphasized equipment leasing rather than driver work.

But the same phone number remained: (630) 506-8869.

The timing does not prove why the site changed, and TWOSU is not claiming that one specific news report caused it, but the timing cannot be ignored.

What the record does show is that Super Ego used the same corporate contact channel for years while promoting driver recruitment and dispatch, then retained that channel when it pivoted to a lease-only presentation.

That makes it much harder to dismiss the earlier material as an unrelated company, a stray advertisement or a historical mistake or later denial’s of; we’re just a passive leasing company.

June 2024: Floyd represented a 2,600-unit fleet

On June 6, 2024, Floyd Inc. submitted a Hankook tire-credit application representing a fleet of 2,600 units: 1,300 tractors and 1,300 trailers.

The application identified Aleksandar Mimic as Floyd’s President, CEO and owner. It requested $50,000 in credit, described a need for 200 tires and projected approximately $120,000 in annual purchases.

The form does not establish that Hankook approved the request. It also does not establish that Floyd owned every tractor it represented.

But it raises a basic question that has not been answered: Whose 1,300 tractors and 1,300 trailers was Floyd authorized to represent as one fleet?

A leasing company can own or lease equipment that does not appear in its FMCSA operating profile. That point is fair.

It does not explain the scale of Floyd’s fleet representation or its authority to speak for 2,600 pieces of equipment.

The VIN record: equipment moved within the network

TWOSU’s VIN review documented exact VIN matches appearing under multiple carriers connected by the broader business record, including movements involving Trytime, Timeit, Windy City and Floyd.

The records show equipment associated with Trytime later appearing under other carriers after Trytime lost operating authority.

A VIN transfer does not, by itself, prove wrongdoing. Equipment can be sold, leased or reassigned lawfully.

Fully Searchable VIN Family Tree:

This interactive dossier allows readers to examine equipment associated with defendants named in lawsuits involving Super Ego Holdings and Floyd Inc. Readers can trace individual VINs between carriers and compare those records with the broader Super Ego VIN pool. The records document equipment continuity across carrier identities, but do not independently establish ownership, control or unlawful conduct.


About these records: This dossier compiles public FMCSA inspection records and separately sourced company information. A VIN appearing under different carriers does not, by itself, establish ownership changes, common control or unlawful conduct. Dates reflect inspection observations, not confirmed transfer dates.

But these are not vague similarities or matching paint schemes. These are not trucks disappearing altogether. They are vehicle-specific records. They show equipment moving through the same interconnected carrier environment being funneled along the same corporate pipeline after enforcement action.

That matters when placed beside Floyd’s 1,300-tractor representation.

The question is not whether a truck can be re-leased. It can.

The question is whether the available record describes isolated arms-length leases, or centralized equipment management across a coordinated carrier network.

Super Ego and Floyd have not publicly provided a complete vehicle-by-vehicle explanation that resolves that question.

A 1,000-plus-truck carrier award

In September 2025, C.H. Robinson recognized Super Ego in its 1,000+ Trucks carrier category.

An award does not establish that Super Ego legally operated every truck associated with the recognition. It is not, by itself, proof of carrier control.

But it is difficult to reconcile with a public description of Super Ego as merely a detached equipment lessor with no meaningful operating identity in trucking.

A company recognized in a 1,000-plus-truck carrier category has been presented to a major customer as something much larger than a passive source of equipment.

The LinkedIn problem

Super Ego’s current LinkedIn profile identifies the company as operating in “Truck Transportation.” It lists 501 to 1,000 employees and calls Super Ego a “model employer.”

That workforce range is self-reported and not an independently audited headcount. It does not prove Super Ego employs 1,000 drivers.

But it is still Super Ego’s own public representation.

A company that describes itself as a truck-transportation business with 501 to 1,000 employees and a “model employer” faces a credibility problem when it says its role has been limited to passive equipment leasing.

What TWOSU’s dossiers found

TWOSU did not build this reporting around one screenshot, one former driver or one vehicle record.

The findings come from multiple dossiers that examine different parts of the same public-facing operation: archived websites, company statements, fleet representations, FMCSA records, VIN histories, driver-related documents and public corporate filings.

Taken separately, each record raises questions. Taken together, they reveal a pattern that Super Ego’s lease-only explanation does not resolve.

The website dossier

The website dossier documents Super Ego’s own long-running public presentation as a trucking operation.

Archived pages promoted driver applications, company-driver and owner-operator opportunities, weekly pay, non-forced dispatch and dedicated dispatchers. The same corporate phone number, (630) 506-8869, was used as a recruiter line before the company shifted its public language toward equipment leasing.

The dossier does not claim that a website determines legal employment status. It shows what Super Ego chose to tell drivers and the public about its own role.

The fleet-representation dossier

The fleet dossier centers on Floyd’s June 2024 Hankook tire-credit application.

Floyd represented a fleet of 1,300 tractors and 1,300 trailers, or 2,600 units, while seeking credit based on that scale of operations. The application identified Aleksandar Mimic as Floyd’s President, CEO and owner.

The dossier does not claim the application proves Floyd owned every truck or that Hankook approved the request.

It documents a specific fleet representation that remains unreconciled with Floyd’s smaller public federal carrier profile and with the claim that the companies’ role is limited to passive leasing.

The VIN dossier

The VIN dossier tracks exact vehicle-identification numbers, not similar-looking trucks or generalized claims.

It documents equipment appearing under multiple carriers in the network, including movement involving Trytime, Timeit, Windy City and Floyd. It also identifies equipment associated with Trytime later appearing under other carriers after Trytime lost operating authority.

The dossier does not treat a vehicle transfer as automatic proof of misconduct. Trucks can lawfully be sold, leased or reassigned.

Its significance is that the equipment movement is specific, repeated and measurable. It allows the public, regulators and the companies themselves to address individual vehicles instead of broad denials.

The ownership-and-affiliation dossier

Public Rule 3.2 filings identify Aleksandar Mimic as the sole disclosed affiliate of both Super Ego Holding and Floyd.

That does not prove he owns or controls every carrier connected to the broader network. It does establish a documented relationship between two companies central to the leasing, fleet and driver-pay questions.

What the dossiers establish

The dossiers establish a documented pattern of:

  • Public recruiting and dispatch language;
  • A shared corporate recruiting-and-lease phone line;
  • A 2,600-unit fleet representation;
  • VIN-specific equipment movement among related carriers;
  • Documented affiliation between Super Ego and Floyd; and
  • A later public shift to lease-only branding.

What the dossiers do not establish

The dossiers do not, by themselves, prove fraud, criminal conduct, a final FMCSA chameleon-carrier finding, or legal control over every carrier and driver in the network.

They do something more basic: they place specific records next to Super Ego’s public explanation and show where that explanation remains incomplete.

The evidence is not a conclusion. It is the reason the questions remain.

The record speaks for itself

None of these facts independently proves fraud. None independently proves that every carrier in the network is controlled by Super Ego or Floyd. None replaces a regulatory finding or a court judgment.

But together, the evidence establishes a public record that Super Ego’s lease-only explanation does not come anywhere close to answering:

  • Super Ego recruited drivers through its own website;
  • It promoted pay, company-driver opportunities and dedicated dispatch;
  • It used a corporate recruiter line that stayed in place after its lease-only rebrand;
  • Floyd represented a 2,600-unit fleet to a tire supplier;
  • Exact VINs show equipment moving among carriers in the same network;
  • Super Ego received recognition in a 1,000-plus-truck carrier category; and
  • It still publicly identifies itself as a large truck-transportation employer.

The issue is no longer whether Super Ego leases equipment. The records show that it does.

The issue is whether “equipment leasing” tells the whole story.

Based on Super Ego’s own public record, it absolutely does not.

Ask yourself a simple question. Why would a company claiming to “only lease trucks & trailers” need to recruit drivers if it didn’t act as a motor carrier?.

Super Ego’s right to respond

TWOSU News provided Super Ego, Floyd and their representatives an opportunity to address the records summarized in this report.

We asked the companies to explain:

  • Why Super Ego’s website spent years recruiting drivers, advertising pay and promoting dedicated dispatch while the company now describes itself as lease-only;
  • Who Floyd was authorized to include in its 2,600-unit Hankook fleet representation;
  • Whether the 1,300 tractors and 1,300 trailers were owned, leased, managed or maintained within a broader affiliated network;
  • How the companies explain VIN-specific equipment movement among Trytime, Timeit, Windy City, Floyd and other carriers reflected in TWOSU’s records;
  • Whether Super Ego or Floyd provided recruitment, dispatch, settlement, maintenance, safety, insurance or load-related services to those carriers;
  • Why Super Ego was recognized in a 1,000-plus-truck carrier category while maintaining that it is not a carrier; and
  • How Super Ego reconciles its current LinkedIn description as a 501-to-1,000-employee truck-transportation employer with its lease-only public position.

The attorney’s response defended the leasing-company explanation and said the records can reflect ordinary equipment leasing and re-leasing. The response did not provide a vehicle-by-vehicle accounting, identify the carriers included in Floyd’s 2,600-unit fleet representation, or explain Super Ego’s years of driver-recruiting and dispatch language.

TWOSU News will promptly review and publish material documentation or a detailed response that addresses these questions.

Help us verify the record

TWOSU News is seeking documentation or Personal Stories from current and former drivers who worked with Super Ego, Floyd or a carrier connected to either company.

If you have records that may help clarify how the operation worked, please submit them through TWOSU News’ Be The Press function. We are especially seeking:

  • Settlement statements, pay records or 1099s;
  • Lease agreements, dispatch messages or load paperwork;
  • ELD instructions, company emails or text messages;
  • Truck, trailer, VIN or decal-change records;
  • Maintenance, insurance or tire documents; and
  • Evidence showing which company recruited, dispatched, paid or supervised the work.

Do not send materials you are not legally allowed to disclose. Redact personal identifiers, account numbers and private customer information whenever possible.

Tell us what the document is, when it was created and how you obtained it. TWOSU News will review submissions, verify what can be verified and protect confidential sources when appropriate.

Submit your evidence by visiting this link:

https://twosunews.com/be-the-press/

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