In the trucking industry, verifying who is hauling freight and whether they are safe to do so should be straightforward. Every carrier has a USDOT number, a safety record, insurance filings, and a traceable history tied to inspections and crash performance.
The industry has built and pays handsomely for technology designed to quickly evaluate carriers. Most systems are optimized to evaluate the USDOT number in front of them. It doesn’t necessarily give the history or story behind or beside that USDOT number. And that is the blind spot.
We do not suffer from a lack of data. We do not suffer from a lack of tech. We suffer from a lack of curiosity.
In the rush to keep freight moving, intuition gets outsourced to an algorithm. A green check mark becomes the end of inquiry rather than the beginning. The fragments are right in front of us in inspection patterns, insurance timelines, corporate registrations, and enforcement actions. They live in different places, waiting for someone to slow down just long enough to connect them. Too often, no one does.
A carrier can accumulate violations, fail audits, have unpaid fines, face insurance problems, cause a fatal crash, get shut down, and then continue operating on the highways as if nothing ever happened. We refer to such operations as chameleon carriers. They shed one identity and reenter the marketplace wearing another because revenue demands motion.
To continue generating revenue, the wheels must keep turning. Freight must keep running.
For years, safety professionals and investigators warned that identity resets weakened the credibility of the oversight system. Those warnings are no longer confined to insider conversations. Members of Congress and officials within the Department of Transportation are now acknowledging that chameleon behavior exposes the public, brokers, and legitimate carriers to real and preventable risk. This is good. Recognition has arrived. Prevention has not. The gap between the two is where precious human lives are lost.
American trucking may be the only industry where you can kill someone today and continue doing business tomorrow. And no one says a word.
We do not need more studies. We do not need another audit or round of recommendations. We need action.
We already have the data. We already have the systems capable of surfacing the connections. What’s missing is the insistence on using them.
Before more innocent Americans lose their lives.
Before more families are shattered.
The Impact of Chameleons
Understanding the vulnerability in theory is one thing. Witnessing and confronting what it produces on the highway is another.
In recent years, fatal crashes have repeatedly prompted deeper reviews. When investigators move beyond the active authority, the narrative changes. The carrier that cleared vetting often proves to be something else entirely. Sometimes, nothing changes except the papers taped to the sides of their trucks.
The most frustrating part is that the information needed to identify these chameleon operations is not hidden. It is accessible. The clues sit in inspection histories, insurance timelines, corporate registrations, and enforcement records. There is rarely anything mysterious about the connections once someone takes the time to assemble them.
Yet that effort is often deferred until sirens and subpoenas make it unavoidable.
Each incident that follows has its own circumstances and must be evaluated based on its individual record. Viewed collectively, however, they show how often clarity arrives too late. By then, the consequences cannot be undone.
January 8, 2023: Texas
A Fairfield man and a Houston, Texas man were killed in a multi-vehicle crash early Sunday morning on Interstate 80 near the Dodge Street exit in Iowa City. According to the Iowa State Patrol, the crash occurred around 5:30 a.m. on an ice-covered stretch of highway and involved 16 vehicles. The scene blocked traffic for several hours. A report released Monday identified the victims as David Mosinski, 57, of Fairfield, and Junier Caballero-Verneo, 37, of Houston.
The incident began when a semi-truck, owned by Kardan Trucking, driven by Johan Caballero-Vereno, also of Houston, lost control on the icy road, jackknifed, and blocked all three lanes. That triggered a chain reaction of crashes. Mosinski, who was driving a truck, collided with the semi’s trailer and died at the scene.
Junier Caballero-Verneo, a passenger in the semi, exited the vehicle after the crash and was struck and killed.
This operation will be referenced again.
June 4, 2023: Texas
An Amazon Relay carrier crossed into oncoming traffic and hit 22-year-old Noah Leyman and his wife head-on. He died at the scene; his wife was critically injured. The truck driver, Firdavs Kubaev, and his passenger, Ergash Annakukov, were uninjured. They were driving for Timur Trucking LLC.
Timur Trucking LLC
KN Trans LLC
DREAMLINE EXPRESS LLC
December 8, 2023: Colorado
Hamza Alodat fell asleep while driving his semi-truck. The truck crossed the median barrier from the Interstate-70 Westbound lanes, across two eastbound Interstate 70 lanes, and collided head-on with another motorist. Alodat was employed by Lion Brothers Trucking, which had been subcontracted through IQ Logistics LLC to haul freight for Amazon Logistics. The driver of the car had to be extricated from his vehicle and suffered life-threatening injuries.
June 20, 2024: California
Partap Singh, an illegal alien from India, allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel of a semi truck on Hwy 395 in Adelanto, California. He plowed into 6 stopped vehicles. 5-year-old Dalilah Coleman was trapped in the back seat -- skull shattered, brain swelling so severe that surgeons removed half her skull. Weeks in a coma. Months in the hospital. She’s home now, but her childhood has been stolen.
Partap Singh was driving for US JET TRANS INC.
December 9, 2024: Iowa
A Cuban truck driver was killed Friday morning when his semi, owned by Kardan Trucking of Bluffton, Indiana, overturned on Interstate 80 in Iowa.
According to the Iowa State Patrol, the crash occurred at 9:36 a.m. near mile marker 28. The Freightliner tractor-trailer, driven by Alain Hernández Rodríguez, 42, of West Palm Beach, Florida, veered into the median, struck a light pole, and rolled onto its side. Hernández Rodríguez was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in the truck, José Armando Valdez, 23, also Cuban and a resident of Miami, was injured and transported to a local hospital. Local press reports indicate that the truck overturned while entering the highway, and neither occupant was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.
This operation will be referenced again.
January, 19, 2025: West Virginia
Truck driver Sukhjinder Singh, 37, jackknifes on the Cheat Lake Bridge in WV during a snowstorm. Deputies respond to the scene. Singh tells them he “lost control” due to weather conditions. Later that day, the Morgantown Police Dept received a missing persons report for Kevin Lataille, 59, of Pennsylvania. Phone location data placed Lataille’s last known whereabouts near the Cheat Lake Bridge. Investigators review surveillance footage. It shows a large vehicle sliding on the bridge, kicking up snow. Then, a separate passenger car fell from the bridge into the lake. Due to severe weather and dangerous lake conditions, deputies scheduled the recovery mission for January 26. The recovery teams pulled Kevin’s car from the lake. He was still in the driver’s seat, still wearing his seatbelt.
Singh was a driver for Gurjaap Multani Transport LLC, a carrier based in Riverside, California.
March 13, 2025: Texas
Solomun Weldekeal-Araya, a 37-year-old truck driver from Eritrea, is facing 22 felony charges in connection with a deadly multi-vehicle crash on I-35 in Austin, Texas. The crash, which occurred in a construction zone with reduced lanes and a 60 mph speed limit, resulted in five deaths and 17 injuries.
The crash involved 18 vehicles in total, including a box truck, two truck tractors, two semi-trailers, and 13 passenger cars.
Araya was working for ZBN Transport at the time of the crash. The lawsuit says that Araya was hauling a load for Amazon at the time of the crash.
June 28, 2025: Texas
On Saturday, June 28, 2025, Alexis Osmani Gonzalez-Companioni fell asleep at the wheel in Terrell, Texas, and woke up to a loud bang. That bang? His 80,000 lb semi-truck crashed into four passenger vehicles and two other semis. The sleeping driver killed 5 people and injured several others.
The tragic incident occurred around 2:40 p.m. in the westbound lanes of the I-20 and forced the highway to close for several hours. The Terrell Volunteer Fire Department described the crash as “horrific” and declared it a “mass casualty” event.
Before Hope Trans, this operation ran as Bee Zone Logistics. Before Bee Zone Logistics, they were Kardan Trucking (noted twice already). They never changed their behaviors, just the company name and USDOT authority.
August 12, 2025: 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. Harjinder Singh was driving for White Hawk Carriers Inc.
October 14, 2025: Indiana
Borko Stankovic (41) crossed into oncoming traffic, killing a man instantly. According to the affidavit, surveillance footage from a nearby business shows the eastbound Ram Sprinter van slowing to a stop in traffic. Seconds later, he rapidly closed the distance, with no attempt to brake. The right lane ahead was completely open, but instead of slowing down or merging right, the semi veered across the centerline into the westbound lane in a reckless attempt to pass the stopped van.
The semi struck a black Subaru head-on, killing the driver instantly, then jackknifed into the van, throwing it off the road and into a business sign. Police said Stankovic claimed to own both the truck and a company called Move RPM Inc.
October 21, 2025: California
Jashanpreet Singh (21) was driving a Freightliner semitruck and failed to stop for slowing traffic, triggering a chain-reaction crash involving four commercial big rigs and four other vehicles.
Killed in the crash were Clarence Nelson, 76, of Fontana, and his wife, Lisa Nelson, 69, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner. The third fatal victim, who died at a hospital, was identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office as Jaime Flores Garcia, 54, of Upland. Clarence Nelson, who was in the passenger seat in their vehicle, was a former assistant basketball coach at Pomona High School.
Singh is also accused of injuring two others. At the time of the crash, he was driving for MATHAUN TRANSPORT LLC.
December 11, 2025: Washington
Kamalpreet Singh was driving for R V S XPRESS INC when he failed to slow for stopped traffic and plowed over the vehicle of 29-year-old Robert Pearson.
February 3, 2026: Indiana
On February 3, 2026, Indiana State Police responded to a fatal crash involving a semi-truck with a triangular logo. The driver, 30-year-old Bekzhan Beishekeev of Philadelphia, PA, swerved to miss another vehicle, rather than braking. Four men in the van died.
The truck involved was operating under the authority of AJ Partners LLC, an Illinois-based motor carrier that is part of a broader web of interconnected trucking companies. On paper, each company looks separate, but in practice operates as a single, unified enterprise.
AJ PARTNERS LLC — 10 crashes, 8 injuries
TUTASH EXPRESS INC — 58 crashes, 2 fatalities, 14 injuries
KG LINE GROUP INCORPORATED — 11 crashes, 2 injuries
+ several others…
We don’t have to live like this.
The crashes you have just scrolled through are separated by miles, dates, and individual circumstances. They involve different drivers, different vehicles, and different victims. Yet, they share a common denominator.
The industry [FreightX +SearchCarriers.com] has proven, time and time again, that it can trace these connections with precision.
The data exists.
The system exists.
The capability exists.
The question before us is whether that identification will occur before or after human lives have been lost.
Why don’t they cancel non domicile CDL’s? Today on I-80, Xtra driver in the far left land tailgating a passenger car. Less than a car length away. Is there a certain number of fatalities or injuries that need to occur before this nonsense will stop?