Logistics provider accuses Alabama carrier of raiding its workforce, stealing trade secrets

Imperative Logistics is accusing two former employees and Alabama Motor Express of orchestrating a scheme to steal confidential customer, pricing and operational information and use it to divert business. Imperative Logistics LLC and subsidiary DTH Expeditors LLC filed a lawsuit on Monday in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Alabama Motor Express, doing business as AMX Expedited, and former Imperative employees Joseph Cochran and Mary Evette Jones. The complaint seeks injunctive relief, compensatory and exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other costs over what Imperative describes as a coordinated effort to misappropriate trade secrets, violate employee restrictive covenants and interfere with the logistics provider’s customer relationships.