A 64-year-old driver with 20 years' experience was told his age was the problem
The EEOC alleges a Texas logistics company used its insurance policy's age restrictions as a hiring cutoff - and turned away drivers over 60 as a result.
Trancasa USA, Inc., a trucking and logistics company based in Hidalgo County, Texas, is facing a federal age discrimination lawsuit. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the complaint on September 24, 2026, in the Southern District of Texas.
The core allegation is simple. The company allegedly adopted the age-eligibility rules from its commercial insurance policy - first purchased in 2023 - and applied them as hiring criteria for truck drivers across the business.
Those rules, set out in the company's Driver Eligibility Standards, allegedly state that all drivers must be between the ages of 23 and 65. Drivers over 60 with any violations or accidents in the past three years are not eligible. And those aged 63 to 65 face an additional requirement: they must submit a long-form medical examination report, known as Form MCSA-5875, that younger drivers are not asked to provide.
The EEOC alleges that federal law does not require employers of truck drivers to obtain that form.
The applicant at the center of the case had been driving trucks for more than 20 years with a clean record. He was 64 when he applied for a position with the company in November 2023, meeting with a recruiter and submitting his application the same day, the...
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