Truckers suing Swift Transportation over alleged practices that occurred when it provided third-party testing to graduates of its Millington, Tenn., school were scheduled to continue mediation Jan. 5.

On Dec. 19, the U.S. District Court for the Western Section of Tennessee, Western Division, granted the parties’ joint motion to extend previously set court deadlines. They had made the request following a “productive” mediation session the previous month.

The new deadlines for discovery and motions are February to July. The two sides had not concurred on a trial date, but agreed it was a moot issue as a new judge had not been assigned yet in the case.

On Dec. 29, Chief Judge Jon Phipps McCalla was added as presiding judge and the court docket currently shows a Sept. 21 trial date.

A spokesman for the company declined comment on the case.

The plaintiffs are graduates of Millington’s Swift Academy who received a Tennessee CDL between May 2005 and February 2008, but state motor vehicle bureaus from several states later sent notifications that retesting would be required.