Defendant
1 case as defendant.
C.R. England, Inc. (commonly "C.R. England") is a privately held, family-owned U.S. truckload carrier headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah (4701 W. 2100 South). It was founded in 1920 by Chester Rodney England and is now run by third- and fourth-generation family members; there is no public ticker, and it is not a subsidiary of another company. It operates the wholly owned 3PL subsidiary England Logistics. Size estimates vary by source and are not audited publicly: employee counts generally fall in the roughly 5,000–10,000 band, and third-party revenue estimates range widely (from about $500M–$1B up to ~$2.1B), so no single figure should be treated as verified.
Operations. C.R. England is one of North America's largest temperature-controlled (refrigerated) truckload carriers. Service lines include over-the-road/national and regional truckload, dedicated contract carriage, refrigerated intermodal (container-on-flatcar), and cross-border Mexico freight. It also runs company driver-training schools for CDL licensure, and England Logistics provides brokerage, LTL/parcel and supply-chain management. Fleet figures cited by the company are on the order of 4,000+ tractors, 6,000+ trailers and about 1,500 containers. This is an operating company with real assets, not a patent-holding shell.
Litigation posture. Per the tracked data, C.R. England appears in exactly one patent suit — as a defendant, with zero plaintiff-side filings — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by an assertion entity rather than a litigant asserting its own patents. The single case is Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. C.R. England, Inc. (C.D. Cal., No. 5:24-cv-00376-KK-SP, filed February 2024). Fleet Connect is a fleet-telematics patent assertion entity that has sued multiple carriers and vendors (Werner, Schneider, Mesilla Valley, GPS Insight, ORBCOMM-related matters). The venue is the Central District of California, not the Eastern District of Texas.
Case context. The asserted portfolio covers fleet tracking, ELD communications and trailer telematics (e.g., US7058040B2, US7596391B2, US7656845B2, US6429810B1, US7742388B2, US7260153B2). Accused products reportedly include ORBCOMM-based ELDs and Platform Science fleet-management hardware; Platform Science separately filed a declaratory-judgment action against Fleet Connect (S.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-00457). A parallel docket (5:24-cv-01273) was administratively closed as opened in error, with proceedings redirected to 5:24-cv-00376. Sources: crengland.com, Wikipedia, ReferenceForBusiness, Federal Reserve Bank of SF, Justia/PACER dockets and PatSnap litigation summaries.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC asserted the '153 patent against C.R. England and ORBCOMM Inc. in C.D. Cal. The case was completed in December 2024. This is an unmarked portfolio campaign case; the narrative notes that '153 inclusion is likely but not confirmed in its sources.