The agency points to a signed form it says applied to female drivers alone
Federal regulators are suing a national trucking company over training rules that, they say, left female drivers unpaid, waiting longer, and warning a spouse first.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued KLLM Transport Services LLC and its subsidiary, KLLM Driving Academy, Inc., on August 5, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The agency alleges the companies ran a driver-training program that treated female student drivers worse than men in three specific ways.
The dispute turns on what the industry calls on-the-road training - the period, which the complaint says took roughly six weeks, when a new hire rides with an experienced trainer before driving solo. Before it begins, according to the complaint, drivers fill out a form saying whether they want a male or female trainer, and whether they have any preference at all.
That form is at the heart of the case. The EEOC alleges it told women they would go unpaid while waiting for a female trainer: "Female Students who elect to wait for a Female Trainer will not be compensated while they wait, if a Male Trainer is available." Men who preferred a male trainer, the agency alleges, were paid during the same kind of wait.
The form carried a second condition aimed only at women, according to the filing. The complaint alleges women who were willing to train with a man, or who stated no trainer preference, had...
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