When former Pilot Flying J sales executive Dan Peyton learned a trucking company had been defrauded by his colleagues, he told jurors Thursday he dialed up the truck stop giant's then-president.
"They told the carrier they were going to give him one deal, and they didn't," Peyton testified Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga. "I told [former Pilot Flying J president] Mark [Hazelwood] ... they cheated the customer. Mark said he would take care of it, that [Pilot Flying J] would pay the money that was owed."
Hazelwood is standing trial alongside former Vice President Scott "Scooter" Wombold and former account representatives Heather Jones and Karen Mann on charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in a five-year scheme to rip off trucking companies by promising them diesel fuel discounts in return for loyalty to Pilot Flying J but paying them less than promised.
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