The van he struck was carrying six Amish people. Four of them died.
He had been employed by AJ Partners, a carrier connected to the Sam Express and Tutash Express chameleon network.
The CDL training school that certified his competency was Aydana Inc., operating as U.S. CDL, incorporated in August 2022 at 524 Continental Road in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
Aydana Inc. had no presence on the FMCSA Training Provider Registry.
Aydana Inc. had no presence on the FMCSA Training Provider Registry.
It had no presence on Pennsylvania’s list of licensed CDL training providers maintained by the State Board of Private Licensed Schools.
It had no website, no Google Business listing, no Yelp listing, and no discernible digital footprint of any kind for an entity incorporated for more than 3 years.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education states explicitly that providers on its licensed list are the only training providers in Pennsylvania legally permitted to offer ELDT instruction.
PennDOT accepted the certification from this entity and issued a commercial driver’s license.
There are approximately 700,000 active motor carriers in the United States. Roughly four million people hold commercial driver’s licenses. The question the Jay County crash forces is not complicated. If a ghost school with no registry listing, no state license, and no digital presence can produce a CDL that a state agency accepts and a carrier relies on to put a driver on the road, and four people die before the system notices, how many variations of that sequence are currently active across an industry this size?
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