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* USA - FMCSA Moves to Protect Fleets From ID Theft
Alexandria,VA,USA -Transport Topics, by Eric Miller -May 21, 2007: -- Brent Jones first got word March 27 that his trucking company’s name was being used as part of a freight load board fraud scheme... “I got a phone call from a credit agency,” said Jones, owner of Baja Enterprises Inc... “They said they were doing some research and something seemed fishy because our company had an address in San Francisco”... Fishy indeed, because Baja’s headquarters are in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It didn’t take Jones long to discover that someone had gone into a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Web site and changed the address of his company. The address change apparently allowed a California-based freight-load broker to receive payment for fraudulent contracts using Baja’s name and federal motor carrier number... Jones said his small trucking company was lucky that it has not suffered any apparent financial damage... Web site security improvements aside, truckers such as Regina Wood, co-owner of Apple Trucking Inc., Germantown, Wis., said she now checks the FMCSA Web site every day to make sure her company’s information has not been altered... Wood discovered in March that someone had changed the address of her two-truck company to somewhere in California when she got a call from an insurance agent who was wondering what happened to a trailer full of roses that Apple was supposed to deliver... Right away, Wood knew something was wrong because her company owns no refrigerated trucks... She said Apple’s information on the FMCSA Web site has since been corrected, but she remains vigilant...
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