3 Dead After Illegal Truck U-Turn in Florida
From California to Florida, untrained truck drivers and recycled USDOT numbers are leaving bodies on America's highways.
UPDATE: August 16, 2025 @ 2257
The Florida Highway Patrol has now confirmed that the driver, Harjinder Singh, has been arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.
According to investigators, Singh entered the U.S. illegally in 2018 and later obtained a California Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). With assistance from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), troopers verified his immigration status and issued an immigration detainer under the federal 287(g) program.
Singh remains in custody and will no longer be able to operate commercial vehicles in the U.S. Once state charges are resolved, he will be turned over to federal authorities for deportation.
This case underscores what I’ve been documenting for months: structural gaps in licensing and enforcement that allow unqualified or illegally-present drivers to get behind the wheel of 80,000-pound trucks. The cost is measured in innocent lives lost.
3 Dead After Illegal Truck U-Turn in Florida
On August 12th, another preventable tragedy played out on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce. A California truck driver and his co-driver allegedly pulled an illegal U-turn through an “official use only” median, leaving his 18-wheeler sprawled across the highway.
A minivan carrying three Floridians slammed into the trailer. The 30-year-old driver was airlifted to a hospital but later died; his two passengers, ages 37 and 54, were killed instantly.
Dashcam footage shows the semi blocking lanes in the moments before impact. The truck drivers walked away without a scratch.
This isn’t an isolated case. It’s another entry in the growing ledger of fatal wrecks caused by undertrained drivers pushed onto U.S. highways by a system that values cheap labor over human life.
And now, three more Americans are dead because of it.
Here’s what we know.
Even though the info has not been made public, here’s how I tracked down the USDOT. From the crash photos, you can make out part of the MC number along with the trailer number.
I went to searchcarriers.com and entered “960440.”
I planned to start with that number and increment by one for the last digit, until the right carrier popped up. Turns out, I didn’t even need to overthink it. Starting with a zero was the key.
I couldn’t just jump the gun and post it. No one likes false information.
Inspection records on searchcarriers.com are helpful when I’m doubtful. DOT inspectors log the trucks and trailers on inspection records. From those records, we can match truck #S147 and trailer #8084 to this carrier.
This evidence provides sufficient confirmation that we’ve identified the correct carrier.
WHITE HAWK CARRIERS INC
USDOT 2866642
This carrier exhibits the same structural patterns I’ve been tracing for months, especially among California-based trucking companies. The USDOT registration doesn’t align with the familiar “Singh” surname pattern; however, the use of “Kaur,” which is the female counterpart in Sikh naming tradition, is used.
A recurring pattern I’ve identified is the use of a spouse’s name when registering a new authority. When you run out of names to use for yourself, just use someone else’s. This tactic serves to obscure relational ties between carriers, allowing them to evade exact-match searches within the USDOT/FMCSA system and thereby complicating the detection of repeat offenders. So yes, multiple other trucking companies are directly linked to this one.
The previous trucking co. was registered to "SIMRANJIT SINGH." Another related trucking co. is registered to "HARPREET SINGH." And another one registered to "KINDERBIR SINGH."
There are 227 trucking companies registered under "SINGH" within the zip code 95307.
Reactions and Commentary from X
Using cheap labor for trucking is already costing America lives. —Cernovich
It is abundantly + irrefutably clear that surveillance tech like ELDs + Driver Facing Cameras have not improved safety, rather, they have provided cover for industry to replace professional drivers like me with those who do not have the mental horsepower required of the job. —Gord ‘Anti-Social Media Defluencer’ Magill
Further illustration of why insurance premiums are so high. Their insurer, Great West was already cancelling their policy on Monday. With 72 hours left on their policy, this behavior just put a $1m liability claim on Great West. After they decided not to insure them anymore. —Joel McKay
Once again we are shown that cameras are no replacement for well trained, well compensated, professional drivers. insourcing idiots or putting local lumpenproles behind the wheel on the cheap comes at a cost measured in lives. —Gord ‘Anti-Social Media Defluencer’ Magill
@SecDuffy there are accounts bringing deadly fraud to your attention, feigning ignorance will not work. we believe in you. please make history, please save lives. —Hope is Back on the Horizon
This is NOT an isolated incident. It’s not the first, and it won’t be the last. We must stop looking for a single scapegoat or a silver-bullet solution. It doesn’t exist.
It’s not just immigration.
It’s not just non-domiciled CDLs.
It’s not just Newsom’s negligence.
It’s not just Republicans.
It’s not just Democrats.
It’s not just CDL mills.
It's not just rates.
It's not just English proficiency.
It’s not just freight brokers.
It is layered, systemic, and festering. Pick your favorite villain if you want, but until the entire broken system gets exposed, the carnage won’t stop.