Enforcement & safety
Roadside enforcement, inspections, crackdowns, and safety actions affecting CDL holders.
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Trucking company owner gets 24 months in prison for $3.5 million Amazon invoice fraud
Ameer Nasir registered 23 trucking businesses — some under false or stolen names — and billed Amazon for more than 1,000 trailer moves that never happened.
Nearly 500 violations found in North Dakota truck inspection blitz with ICE and FMCSA
109 inspections in Williston turned up 494 violations — 122 out-of-service — plus 27 citations and 20 warnings.
Fake broker scam busted mid-theft: $273,000 in seafood was being unloaded into a box truck
A driver got calls and texts from someone impersonating a freight broker and diverted 29,000 pounds of frozen seafood — police in New Jersey caught the transfer in progress.
New York troopers write 376 tickets in two-day Taconic parkway blitz
State police targeted commercial vehicles on the truck-restricted Taconic State Parkway on Sept. 30–Oct. 1 — 198 tickets for running the parkway itself, and 4 drivers plus 5 trucks put out of service.
CVSA releases Operation Safe Driver Week results: 2,604 tickets, 3,968 warnings
Officers across 36 states, 7 provinces, and Mexico interacted with 8,083 drivers during the July 12–18 campaign — speeding and seat-belt violations again led the list.
Pennsylvania troopers run a month-long Turnpike toll-evader crackdown
Through October, plate readers will flag vehicles with registrations suspended over unpaid tolls; $250 in unpaid tolls triggers a PennDOT suspension referral, and the April detail made 200-plus stops.
Indiana inspectors logged 9,441 violations in a 30-day stretch — 589 drivers and 683 vehicles sidelined
The figures, released Oct. 5, cover 4,789 inspections from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15: speeding led with 1,051 violations, and 50 citations were tied to English-language proficiency rules.
Nearly 2,000 citations issued to truck drivers during Operation Safe Driver Week
CVSA released results Oct. 5 from the July 12–18 detail: commercial drivers received 3,409 warnings and 1,956 citations, with speeding the top violation.
FMCSA's Elison: 'hundreds' of ELD providers kept off registry, nearly 100 removed
At the NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference, Deputy Administrator Jesse Elison said tougher vetting has kept hundreds of providers off the registry and removed nearly 100, with an ELD rule rewrite in the works.
Jury convicts two in $2 million cargo-theft ring that bought real trucking companies
After a seven-day trial, Arshpreet Singh and Vikramjeet Singh were convicted of using bought carriers like Z&F Transportation to bid on real loads — then never delivering.
Iowa blitz catches commercial drivers 'actively' watching videos behind the wheel
Nine distracted-driving citations in 3.5 hours on I-80 in Jasper County — the majority went to truckers streaming video on dash-mounted devices.
Thieves cloned a $60,000 shipment; Cook County recovered 75 drums of glycerin before it vanished
A driver hauled 41,336 pounds of glycerin toward Thornton, Illinois, on cloned paperwork — investigators say he didn't know the load was stolen.
FMCSA and DHS put 78 drivers out of service in overnight four-state blitz
Operation Saturday Night Fever ran 552 inspections in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia — 12 drivers were cited for English-proficiency violations and 25 vehicles were sidelined.
Michigan semi stop nets 368 pounds of suspected heroin, 174 handguns
Motor carrier officers stopped a semi on I-69 near Marshall on Sept. 24 and found 92 bundles of suspected heroin and 174 handguns with obliterated serial numbers.
50-vehicle pileup shuts down I-95 in South Carolina; 15 semis involved
Dense fog was reported at the Thursday morning crash on the southbound I-95 bridge near mile marker 100 — 11 people were hospitalized and the southbound lanes face an extended closure.