The former owner and CEO of Lipsey Logistics and Lipsey Trucking has been arrested and charged with multiple alcohol and drug-related offenses. A press release issued by the companies claims that he has “relinquished his management roles and ownership shares” at both companies.
Joseph Lipsey III, his wife Shira, and their 19-year-old son, were all arrested at their Aspen Colorado home and charged with multiple crimes. Lipsey’s charges include felony possession of a controlled substance, felony unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, and felony contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
According to the press release put out by Lipsey Logistics and Lipsey Trucking, the charges “relate to personal matters and have nothing to do with our business.” Despite that, Lipsey has reportedly resigned his role as CEO of both companies. He has been replaced by the current President and COO of Lipsey Logistics, Johnny Jones. Jones also received all of Lipsey’s voting shares.
The companies further distanced themselves from Lipsey by saying that he “has never been involved in [the] day-to-day operations” of the company and that he was “principally an investor.”
“Regardless, we would like to assure the public that his exit from the business is immediate and permanent,” reads the company’s press release. “And that he will have no ownership of or control over the companies going forward.”
According to Transport Topics, the companies employ a combined total of about 200 people and bring in annual revenue of over $300 million.
Later this year, John White, former president of U.S. Xpress will step in as President of Lipsey Logistics.
You can read the full press release here.
Source: lipseylogistics, ttnews, fleetowner, gazette, freightwaves, wrcbtv
Hammer Head says
It had nothing to do with trucking. The two never should’ve been mixed like this, one has nothing to do with the other.
Remi says
That’s very true i totally agree with you
Rick W says
So the CEO of a trucking company who never drives can’t even have a beer?
What’s wrong with you???
Rawdog says
Neither does it have anything to do with trucking if I wanna sit on my back porch and smoke joint when I’m home but I can’t
Daniel Lee Smalls says
yes you can, I will come by and show you how, it’s easy, just go puff, puff , pass
Steel Horse and Wooden Mem says
And we wonder why we have problems
Duh says
It sorta does if it shows up on a drug test and prevents you from driving…
That being said – invent the Weed Breathalyzer and you’ll be set for life.
Jmann. says
You are so right. The person that invents the (weed breathalyzer). Will be a multi millionaire. That being said Smoke up !!!!!!?
Trishlm says
However I know of drivers being pulled in on their time off and having to take breathalyzer tests and drug tests. So if you are in trucking don’t think you’re not being given freedom to enjoy your time off. One guy out of state on vacation was called in and when he explained he was with his family out of state and couldn’t take it, he was fired and written up as a refusal. The feds need to worry about themselves and back off.
Howard says
I wouldn’t have answered the phone lol
Steel Horse and Wooden Mem says
If he was out of state, he could have requested to go to the nearest hospital and have it done on companies expense
Deez Nutz says
Total lie you can NOT be sent for a drug test IF you are off duty. You have to be at work AND on duty to be sent for a drug test. READ the law
Dale Johnson says
THANK you. Bad information like this tall tale of being called in while on vacation hurts our industry by spreading false information. If the driver was, in fact, fired for refusing while on vacation, that’s wrongful termination subject to back pay and damages.
Ross says
That’s 2 bad 😎
Buck says
You drivers are all the same. Somebody has a little trouble and bad luck and you jump all over them shame on you
Daniel Lee Smalls says
that is not drivers, that’s a fault of ” humans “
MrYowler says
Meh. Carriers are quick to do it to drivers. It just doesn’t make the news, because drivers don’t make $1.5 million per year, apiece.
And you know, drug and alcohol abuse aren’t “bad luck”. They’re bad judgement. Excuse everyone else for seeing bad judgement in action by a guy who holds 200 families futures in his hands, and judging him to be bad. It won’t hurt him. He still has a giant pile of money made off of the backs of the people now judging him… unless he blew it all on the drugs – in which case, our opinion of him is still the least of his worries.
Tell ya what – he can give up a million dollars a year for every year that his employees worked for him while he got drunk and high, to those employees. He does that, and they promise not to judge him for having more dollars than sense. He’ll still be unbelievably wealthy (and stupid), and we’ll all feel sorry for him while he sits in a luxury rehab, wearing an ankle bracelet.
Would that be fair?
Andy Specht says
I’ve been with this company, on the trucking side, since it was a year old and can attest to Lipsey not being involved. Jones is there almost daily running the show. Lipsey did in fact sell his shares in the LLC to Jones and is no longer a member.
Joe Barilari says
A great reason to distance oneself from Lipsey is that “Home in Aspen” says liberal and wealth disparity.
It’s not that I hate the rich, but trying to get rich working with them, is silly.
Seek other opportunities
Dale Johnson says
You say liberal as if it’s a bad thing. I can assure you there are plenty of all political persuasions living in Aspen.
TurnNBurn says
A “little” trouble? Bad luck? Multiple felonies are more than a “little” trouble. As for luck, it doesn’t always work this way but most of us make a lot of our own luck.
Mike says
Everyone always harps on drugs and alcohol when the simple fact is most of the people who drive anything for a living are too stupid to work a deep fryer and want to look at their phones constantly like they mean anything to anyone.
Daniel Lee Smalls says
and let me guess, you are the assistant manager at Burger King and have been there for 16 years and you are almost finish paying for 2000 F150
Robert Benoit says
Too stupid to work a deep fryer. Says the drive thru boy at McDonald’s. I have a bachelor of science in information technology with emphasis on networking. CompTIA A+, Network +, Security + and I was working on MCSE before it was changed to what it is now.
I chose to be a truck driver because I couldn’t find stable work in the industry. Don’t assume truck drivers are stupid. You make yourself look stupid.
MrYowler says
Sit up there on that high horse and snort some coke. Not all drivers are uneducated, and not all education leads to stable and gainful employment. At least the drivers are sober enough to work. This guy was apparently too high to run his own family business. If a driver did that, he’d be canned at the first pee test or physical exam. Executives don’t have to do pee tests or physicals, so I suppose that they can get as high as they like.
But inheriting a cash cow from your daddy doesn’t make you smarter than the nobodies who work for you. It just makes you richer. You can’t buy respect. Fortunately, rich people don’t need it – until they fall off of their high horses…
Jay Stensrud says
Af__kingmen. Well spoken
D.C. Holshouser says
I know personally several retired MBA and PHD recipients who drive trucks to keep busy. Also if truck drivers are so stupid maybe we should ALL stop delivering all the crap you buy at every store from your raisin bran to those marital aids your wife uses when you can’t get the job done.
Michael says
True indeed this has NOTHING TO DO WITH “TRUCKING!!!”
THIS IS A WAY FOR THE GOVERNMENT to CHANGE more things to their likings…
Not every OWNER is indulging in illegal activities.. There is many honorable people in this business…..
MrYowler says
True enough, Michael – not all owners are bad. This one was. That should not reflect on the rest. The rest of the bad – and good – ones can stand on their own reputations.
But a pattern does emerge, as drivers step back and survey the landscape, and that pattern does not inspire confidence… :-/
Duh says
I don’t think drivers should be letting small examples set their opinions on the whole…
Have you been to a truck stop? You want a small sample size of those folks to be what people based their opinions about you on?
Hate on owners all you want, I do, for sure.
But I haven’t seen a single CEO throw a bag of poop out of the window while cruising down the highway in their Escalade, or dumping buckets of human waste and trash from their living space onto a parking lot.
Sid little says
I’ve never done that I’m proud to be a trucker they is some nasty people out here but some good ones too thank the government for the trash that u see out here back. In the 80s they paid the mega carriers money to get them offf welfare put them in trucks now you see what we got
MrYowler says
No need for executives to poop in a bag. The executive washroom is attached to their office, so that they can snort coke off of the vanity. The toilet is mostly for throwing up, but it’s still simpler to poop there, than it is to crap in a bag and open the window.
E.J. Brock says
LMAO! 😂😂
John says
I don’t work for them so i really don’t care!!
Floyd says
He must of had something besides weed because recreational weed is legal in Colorado so he must of had the rich man’s drug (cocaine) and or Meth
Gracie says
It’s Colorado!!! It’s a catch 22 there. Could it have been marijuana? Must of been something a little more potent?
C says
What about the kid? It’s one thing for you to make bad judgements for yourself but let that child become an adult sober and make his own judgements good or bad.
brucito says
Not to go off topic but this article really made me laugh and laugh hard. I remember the days when a dirty drug test meant you could not drive for a major carrier for ten years. Thanks to the electronic logs system a lot of drivers quit because they finally figured out this job is basically a sweatshop on wheels that ten year ban has been cut down to three years. What does that tell you about desperation on the part of carriers and driver retention? This is 2019 we’re in and well over half of us are NOT saints when it comes to drugs.
Michael says
I don’t know guys but with a name like Lipsey, what can I say, lol
Skateboarder says
This what America love a rich privileged mf doing what ever he please while all us peons make him rich don’t believe me look at our president I hope he get coked out and grab a few trump supporters daughters by the 😹
Tim Gurney says
This is about consumer and or shareholder confidence. Nothing more. If it had not become public knowledge, absolutely nothing would have been done or said, and the status quo wouldn’t have changed. The only thing to learn here is ‘don’t get caught’. And that is sickening.