Empty store shelves.
Backed up boats and an industry
struggling to find drivers.
The pressure is to drive drive drive,
drive drive and sometimes. Crash.
That's video from a case now
under investigation in Florida.
This man says he is grateful
he never got into an accident,
but the fear he might led him
to quit his job as a truck
driver after just two months,
he asked us not to use his
name and protect his identity.
You'll understand why in a
moment pretty much no sleep,
sometimes 4 hours of sleep.
It was about 30 hours straight
by law, drivers at most can
spend 11 hours behind the wheel
each day and they have to get 10
hours of rest between each shift.
Drivers must track their hours
to prove they are following the
law. If the driver is too tired to drive,
he's more likely to have a wreck.
And when a commercial vehicle has a crash,
if it's a. If it's a tractor trailer,
then that that can be catastrophic.
We can kill people we can kill
ourselves. There's a massive danger.
Still, this whistleblower shared with
US text messages and driving logs that
appear to show his company manipulated
his hours to keep him on the road longer
on the largest, say 5 hours 38
minutes after they changed this.
If you see it in this paper,
you say one minute every time I
run out of time he he go on the
elog and he race Mike my previous
hours and gave me a fresh 11 hours.
He doesn't know exactly who
does it or how it happens.
He received this message from a number
in India telling him to keep driving.
I just did what he told me to do.
We wanted to talk with the
company about his claims and
finally caught up with Jacob.
He wouldn't give us his last
name but said he was responsible
for assigning the shifts.
So just to be clear, you were
saying that you are not altering the
driver logs in any way he did not.
He can make up anything he wants
to because he got the access.
Jacob calls the man a disgruntled
employee because he had to pay
for a bumper damage during his
last run with the company.
Better now tied U in court all
false allegations, according to
the Department of Transportation,
more than 20% of truck driving violations
in Georgia are for falsifying or
failing to fill out a drivers log.
Attorney Stefano Particulate,
who represents the man injured in this crash,
says some companies look for creative
ways to get around the system.
You see drivers with multiple logins
so you log in, you run out of time.
All right now switch to your other
login and there aren't many tricks.
The driver can do on their own right.
Who sets up the user accounts
the company does. Right?
Who is dispatching a driver on the load?
This driver points out his own
text messages coming from a number
that links back to the company.
This is me texting him he
replying back. You're good to go.
You got 11 hour fresh time.
dot would see this log showing the
driver spent several days off the road.
His paycheck says he traveled
nearly 6000 miles that week.
That means he would have had to
drive more than 1400 miles a day.
When he was on the road at an
average speed of 134 mph to
not go over his daily limit,
according to an open records
request with the dot,
the company had an unsatisfactory
safety rating and wasn't allowed
to even operate during that time.
So if someone does drive over and the
company knows it and the driver knows it,
they're really just gambling,
hoping that you don't find out about
it a great deal of them.
If they're in the air, but you know
some of them are going to get by,
it's like anything else you know you can.
You can't stop everybody
that's doing something wrong.
I did talk with two other drivers
who say they were forced to falsify
their logs in order to keep their job.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration says it did
investigate the drivers claims,
but we couldn't find any reports of that.
And despite repeated requests for
information, no one is talking.
All we know is that the case
is closed and the company.
Is still doing business.