One conservative activist claimed that “hundreds if not thousands” of trucking companies in the United States are registered under “no name given.”She said the situation is linked to migrants, especially from the Punjabi community, who do not provide their full names to the US authorities.
This results in entries like “Ankur no name given” or “Anjali no name given” or “Anil no name given”.
“The claim was made in an audio clip shared on
“These are all the trucking companies that are registered, and this is their contact name,” says the first speaker in the audio recording.The exchange continues with the second person confirming the scope of the claim.“And everyone represents a trucking company here in the United States,” says the second speaker.“Yes, in the USDOT registry, there’s a key employee. And that’s the person who owns the trucking company and who’s in charge of the paperwork, one of them. That’s where all these names came from. And so I pulled the list from, it’s the company census file file at USDOT, two commas or a million rows.”
So I pulled out all the people who didn’t have a given name, first name unknown, last name unknown. It’s a lot, and with no specific name, I looked it up in company files, only trucking companies have this.
“In the recording, the second speaker explains the practical implications of these recordings.“And again, I just want to make it clear that these are the primary contacts for these companies here in the United States. These people have active trucking companies.”“Yes,” the first speaker answers and agrees.The audio concludes by suggesting that companies registered in this way are capable of operating heavy trucks on American highways that may pose a risk to American citizens.“And it can have 18-wheelers or semis on U.S. highways,” she says.Hernandez’s post said the problem came from years of alleged negligence by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). She noted that the problem began when immigrants who crossed the border illegally did not give their full names to border patrol, leading to an “ungiven name” entry on official paperwork.
