60 Minutes, the storied investigative news program of CBS, Sunday night turned its cameras on one of the growing problems within the U.S. trucking industry: chameleon carriers.
These companies quickly shed any record of accidents and safety violations simply by changing their names and slapping new DOT numbers on their trucks.
The 60 Minutes piece focused on Super Ego Holding, which the show described as "a network of commercial trucking and leasing companies based in Serbia and the U.S." The news program also said the company is the subject of a federal investigation, and called it "a ticking time bomb on our nation's roadways."
You can watch the story and/or read the transcript here.
