Scam Alert!: DOT Compliance Scam groups Targeting Truckers And Generating Millions of Dollars

[Cristen]

If you're a trucker, you might be the target of a new scam making the rounds. Groups are posing as DOT compliance officers and shaking truckers down for money, to the tune of millions of dollars.

Here's how the scam works: a group of people will pull up to a truck stop in a car or van with DOT markings. They'll approach truckers and tell them that they need to inspect their vehicles for compliance with DOT regulations.

The truckers, not wanting to get into trouble, will go along with the inspection. But instead of finding anything wrong with the trucks, the "inspectors" will find some minor infraction like a loose lugnut or an expired registration sticker. They'll then tell the trucker that they need to pay a fine on the spot, usually around $1000.

If the trucker doesn't have the cash on hand, the "inspector" will offer to take a check or credit card. But once they have the trucker's information, they'll just disappear without ever issuing a receipt or citation. The trucker is out the money and none the wiser.

This scam has been going on for years

 

[Uncle Birchy]

If you're a trucker, you might be the target of a new scam making the rounds. Groups are posing as DOT compliance officers and shaking truckers down for money, to the tune of millions of dollars.

Here's how the scam works: a group of people will pull up to a truck stop in a car or van with DOT markings. They'll approach truckers and tell them that they need to inspect their vehicles for compliance with DOT regulations.

The truckers, not wanting to get into trouble, will go along with the inspection. But instead of finding anything wrong with the trucks, the "inspectors" will find some minor infraction like a loose lugnut or an expired registration sticker. They'll then tell the trucker that they need to pay a fine on the spot, usually around $1000.

If the trucker doesn't have the cash on hand, the "inspector" will offer to take a check or credit card. But once they have the trucker's information, they'll just disappear without ever issuing a receipt or citation. The trucker is out the money and none the wiser.

This scam has been going on for years

I've never seen nor heard of that..

Furthermore a Truckstop is "Private" Property the DOT has no right 2 be there..

I'd ask them to get a "Search Warrant" or Buzz Off in a Truckstop..

Now I have seen DOT in Rest Areas from time to time but fully marked Highway Patrol squad cars and fully Uniformed Officers

 

[mndriver]

I got them to block me. After so many years of “unsubscribe” links on their emails, filling my mailbox with their junk and the phone calls and text messages, I finally started calling them and in f-bomb laden discussions and disrespectful behavior, they got the hint. I had a series of emails to them that were finally able to get it done.

Haven’t gotten anything from them for over 4 months now.