License to Defraud

Certain vehicles and professions require a commercial driver’s license (CDL). Examples include operators of tractor trailers, box trucks, garbage trucks, limousines and school buses. An articleposted onTruckingInfo.com tells about two separate cases related to a CDL test-taking scheme in New York that issued hundreds of undeserved licenses to unqualified drivers.

The article states that an investigation led by the U.S. Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General, plus federal and state law enforcement agencies, revealed that fraudulent CDL test-taking activities had occurred at five Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) test centers near New York City. Investigators were able to identify the perpetrators through the use of surveillance tools including remote observation posts and pole cameras. (The intelligence collected allowed law enforcement to identify DMV security personnel, a test-taker, facilitators, runners and lookouts participating in the scheme.)