News / XPO sues YRC after top executives in job-swap allegedly took trade secrets with them

XPO Logistics has filed a lawsuit against rival trucking firm YRC Worldwide, alleging that several ex-Con-way executives – who left following its October takeover to join YRC – were involved in “corporate espionage”.

The suit, submitted to a commercial court in Delaware, alleges that YRC’s senior management, in concert with two senior Con-way executives, drew up plans to “target en masse and then raid key executive, operations and sales employees of XPO Freight”, once XPO’s acquisition of Con-way was completed and the company’s ...