Maryland Trucking Company Shut Down Due to Safety Issues

Maryland-based Gunthers Transport, LLC has been declared an imminent hazard to public safety, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).

The trucking company was ordered by the FMCSA to immediately cease all transportation services.

FMCSA issued the order following an exhaustive review of the company’s operations, which found multiple hours-of-service and vehicle maintenance violations.

“Safety is our number-one priority,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Commercial truck companies that recklessly disregard federal safety regulations will be shut down and removed from our roadways.”

The company was shut down immediately after FMCSA safety investigators discovered the company allowed its drivers to falsify their hours-of-service records and exceed the 11-hour limit for daily driving.

In addition, the company did not require its drivers to perform pre-trip vehicle safety inspections, operated trucks that were in such poor condition they were likely to break down and posed a high crash risk based on its on-road performance record, according to FMCSA investigators.

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration