Swift ordered to pay o/o 2.6 million

Swift, the country’s largest truckload carrier, this week settled a 2013-brought lawsuit with one of the company’s former owner-operators, ending its bid to fight the litigation in which the fleet was recently ordered to pay $2.6 million in court.

The final dollar amount of Swift’s settlement is confidential, however. The case was heard by a jury on Aug. 12, who returned a verdict later that month ordering Swift to pay $2.6 million in damages to trucker Herbert Willoughby, who suffered a severe foot injury in June 2012 when a loaded Swift trailer ran over his foot.