Trial may resume Sept. 17 in the class action suit truckers brought against Swift Transportation over alleged practices that occurred when it provided third-party testing to graduates of its Millington, Tenn., school.

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 following a “productive” November mediation session.

However, the presiding judge recently had been elevated to an appeals court. Although the lawsuit was transferred to Chief Judge Jon Phipps McCalla Dec.. 29, a court spokeswoman said a visiting judge ultimately may handle the case and the hearing date could change.

A spokesman for Swift declined comment on the case.

The motions deadline is May 4 and a pre-trial conference is Aug. 27.

The plaintiffs are Millington’s Swift Academy graduates who received a Tennessee CDL between May 2005 and February 2008. The end date represents when the U.S. Department of Transportation and FBI raided the academy, which soon was followed by the Tennessee’s Department of Safety’s investigation.