Senator launches tipline for reporting trucking companies and truck drivers who violate federal law
A Senator launched a tipline that truckers can use to report concerns about trucking companies employing unqualified truck drivers to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT).
On February 10, 2026, U.S. Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) announced the launch of the TruckSafe Tipline.
The TruckSafe Tipline will allow truck drivers and other members of the trucking industry to report “concerns about carriers employing or contracting with drivers who are not legally in the United States, who are not authorized to drive a truck, or who cannot meet required English-language safety standards.”
Banks says information shared through the tipline will be reviewed by the USDOT and the DOT-Office of Inspector General for possible investigation.
You can click here to access the TruckSafe Tipline.
“Indiana is the Crossroads of America and Hoosiers are getting killed because drivers who shouldn’t be here in the first place are behind the wheel. If you’re driving a truck on our roads, you need to be legal, you need to be able to read traffic signs, and you need to follow the law. The TruckSafe Tipline gives people on the ground a way to speak up when they see carriers cutting corners and putting lives at risk,” said Banks.
Banks pointed to a number of instances in which fraudulent carriers and unqualified truck drivers were involved in crashes, including a crash that occurred last week during which four people were killed in Jay County, Indiana.
See below for more from a news release shared by Banks on Tuesday:
“Last week, a Kyrgyzstani national who crossed the southern border illegally in December 2023 and was let into the U.S. by the Biden administration by using the CBP One cell phone app killed four Indiana men after swerving into oncoming traffic on State Road 67 in Jay County. The victims of the accident include a 50-year-old father, his two sons, ages 19 and 25, and one other person.
Over the weekend, Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said AJ Partners, the carrier that employed the illegal alien involved in the Jay County crash, and a number of other companies are under investigation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Duffy stated, “these interconnected carriers have all the markings of FRAUD and are accused of being CHAMELEON CARRIERS. This is when companies swap names and DOT numbers to avoid enforcement.”
This was not the first fatal accident caused by an illegal truck driver on Indiana’s roads. In November 2025, a Georgian national who entered the country illegally during the Biden Administration in 2022 and was granted a commercial driver’s license by New York State caused a crash that killed Indiana National Guardsman Terry Frye. When the authorities tried to communicate with the foreign driver at the scene, they discovered that the driver could not speak English and required a translator, according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.
In October 2025, an illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro driving a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 20 in Portage, Indiana caused a multi-car accident that killed a 54-year-old. Despite being in the United States illegally since 2011, the driver owned two trucking companies that received over $36,000 in COVID-19 relief funding.“