073829P.pdf   02/12/2009  Owner-Operator Independent  v.  United Van Lines
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-3829
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Ebel and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case. Damage actions under 49 U.S.C. Sec. 14704(a)(2) are
   subject to the four-year statute of limitations found in 28 U.S.C. Sec.
   1658 for civil actions arising under federal statute, and the district court
   erred in dismissing individual owner-operators' claims alleging violation
   of the Secretary of Transportation's Truth-in-Leasing regulations as
   barred by a two-year statute of limitations found in 49 U.S.C. Sec.
   14705(C); however, the court did not err in dismissing plaintiffs' claims
   that defendant improperly charged back the cost of federally-mandated
   public liability and property damage as the legislation requiring registered
   carriers to post a bond or carry such insurance does not specify which
   party is required to bear the cost and the regulations implementing the
   legislation do not prohibit defendant from charging the owner-operator.