New lawsuit alleges R&R, RFX failed to pay $264K in freight invoices

As carriers proceed to question wherefore invoices from R&R Family of Companies and related entities abruptly went unpaid, a recently filed suit successful Texas adds item to allegations that brokerage units continued tendering freight amid deepening fiscal distress.

A ailment filed Jan. 23 by Jimenez Logistics LLC successful Hidalgo County, Texas, alleges that R&R Express Inc. and RFX Inc., subsidiaries of R&R Family of Companies, failed to wage for proscription services arranged successful 2025 and aboriginal 2026, contempt repeated demands for payment.

According to the lawsuit, Jimenez Logistics arranged and prepaid centrifugal carriers for shipments astatine the petition of R&R Express and RFX, relying connected representations that invoices would beryllium paid. The ailment alleges invoices totaling astir $264,650 stay unpaid.

The defendants person not responded publically to the allegations.

Pittsburgh-based R&R Family of Companies is simply a logistics and proscription supplier that astatine 1 constituent owned dozens of affiliated entities, including R&R Express, RFX LLC, Taylor Express, Giant Energy Solutions, Paradigm Transportation and GT Worldwide Logistics.

Houston-based RFX LLC was a trucking and shipping institution offering refrigerated proscription crossed the U.S.

The Jimenez Logistics lawsuit is 1 of respective lawsuits filed against R&R-affiliated entities pursuing the company’s operational shutdown earlier this month.

As FreightWaves antecedently reported, a abstracted Florida suit filed by a large lender alleges that R&R Family of Companies continued operating portion insolvent and had accumulated tens of millions of dollars successful unpaid commercialized payables, a class that includes bearer invoices arsenic good arsenic different vendor obligations.

Carriers and brokers person continued to station online seeking accusation astir unpaid balances, portion others effort to prosecute outgo straight from shippers.x

Jimenez Logistics alleges that erstwhile the freight was tendered, the defendants knew — oregon should person known — that they lacked the quality to wage for the services but continued arranging proscription nonetheless.

The suit asserts claims including breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, negligent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment.

The ailment further alleges that R&R Express exercised operational and fiscal power implicit RFX, arguing the 2 entities functioned arsenic a azygous concern enterprise.

A erstwhile RFX worker interviewed by FreightWaves said astir RFX employees were not alert of the severity of R&R’s fiscal troubles until precise late, dissimilar unit astatine the Pittsburgh office who saw informing signs earlier.