Loveโs gas station class action lawsuit overview:ย
- Who: William Fudge filed a class action lawsuit against Loveโs Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. d/b/a Loveโs.ย
- Why: Fudge claims consumers who purchase premium motor fuel from Loveโs gas stations receive a โsignificant amountโ of regular or mid-grade motor fuel in their first gallon pumped.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Tennessee federal court.
Consumers who purchase premium motor fuel from Loveโs gas stations regularly receive a โsignificant amountโ of regular or mid-grade motor fuel in their first gallon of fuel, a new class action lawsuit alleges.ย
Plaintiff William Fudge claims Loveโs fuel pumps, after being used to pump regular or mid-grade motor fuel, retain a โresidual amountโ of motor fuel that becomes part of the first gallon of motor fuel pumped into the next vehicle.ย
Fudge argues that, since around 70% of vehicles require regular motor fuel, consumers with vehicles requiring premium motor fuel โregularly paid the premium price for the first gallon of motor fuel for which they did not receive a gallon of premium motor fuel in return.โย
โPremium Customers, therefore, regularly paid the premium motor fuel price for a gallon that contained a significant amount of lower-grade motor fuel,โ the Loveโs class action states.ย
Fudge wants to represent individual classes of consumers from a total of 42 states who purchased premium motor fuel from a Loveโs gas station equipped with a single-nozzle fuel dispensing system after a customer who had used the same system to purchase regular or mid-grade motor fuel.ย
Loveโs has known for years that it overcharges customers who purchase premium gas, says class action
Fudge claims Loveโs has known for years that it was โretaining the benefit of selling regular or midgrade motor fuel for the price of premium motor fuel at the expense of its Premium Customers.โย
Loveโs also could easily return the money it allegedly overcharges consumers who purchase premium motor fuel, however, it chooses not to, the Loveโs class action alleges.ย
โLoveโs has made a business decision to retain the overcharge as a profit as opposed to refunding the same to Premium Customers,โ the Loveโs class action states.ย
Fudge claims Loveโs is guilty of unjust enrichment and breach of express or implied-in-fact contract. He is demanding a jury trial and requesting declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of restitutionary damages for himself and all class members.ย
In another case involving a gas station, Arco AmPm agreed to a settlement in 2014 that resolved claims the company charged for more gas than what was actually pumped at its Oregon gas stations.ย
Have you purchased premium motor fuel at a Loveโs gas station? Let us know in the comments!ย
The plaintiff is represented by Gordon Ball of Gordon Ball, PLLC, Thomas Bienert, Jr. and Daniel Goldman of Bienert Katzman Littrrell Williams LLP, Times Wang of North River Law PLLC, and Bryan E. Delius of Delius & McKenzie, PLLC.
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Include me. My car only takes Premium and I fuel up at Loves when traveling.
I buy fuel from Loves every week. Easily 20-30 gallons a week, filling up two or three separate times. Thatโs a significant amount of money over the course of the last year. That is an issue for me personally. If I am not included in this suit then I will without a doubt be instigating my own lawsuit against them.
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We travel through TN and other states quite often and purchase premium fuel each time we stop at a Loves Travel Center.
Get over it every one!
This has been going on at gas millions of gas stations for many years, why donโt you sue them all while youโre at it
Too many people wants to sue for free money instead of sucking it up and go to a different gas station which most likely have the same pump set up.
You obviously are a โregularโ customer.
In truth, as you stated, this happens at many fuel stations. However, that in no way makes the practice a just one.
As for your โfree moneyโ comment โ how would you feel if your bank and/or credit card company decided to round every purchase you made and bill you paid with a check, credit card, or debit card up to the nearest while dollarโฆ and then kept the difference between that amount and the actual amount of the purchase/bill? And when you complained about the practice (as you almost certainly would), how would you feel if someone, upon learning of your complaint, told you to โsuck it up,โ and to quit trying to get free money?
Mary Holmes: Please add me: I traveled to Tennessee in March to see Grizzlies game.
Please add me because I get all my gas at Loves, so I can get my Loves Card points!
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