Trucking has a strange way of calling drivers “essential” right up until one of them says no. No, this trailer should not be on the road. No, this load is overweight. No, this paperwork does not match reality. No, I am not risking my CDL so freight can keep moving. That is where the industry’s love language changes. Suddenly the driver is not a hero. He is a problem. CBS recently put national attention on one version of that problem: chameleon carriers. In its 60 Minutes inve

When Trucking Safety Gets Buried in Paperwork: CBS’s Chameleon Carrier Investigation and My Knight-Swift Paper Trail CBS’s recent trucking investigations put a national spotlight on a problem that truck drivers have talked about for years: in modern freight, danger often hides behind paperwork. In its 60 Minutes investigation, CBS described “chameleon carriers” as trucking operations that shed one identity for another after safety violations, allowing old problems to disappea

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