How a Fatal 2004 Trucking Crash Spawned a Reincarnated, Chameleon Carrier Dynasty Still Operating Today
An FMCSA compliance review linked World Trucking Inc. to a four-fatality Tennessee crash and illegal drivers. Twenty years later, the Dobrikov family network has multiplied.
On March 7, 2004, a truck operated by World Trucking Inc. killed four people in Baileyton, Tennessee. The carrier was headquartered at 17844 W. Bluff Road in Lemont, Illinois, run by Dobrin Dobrikov, a Bulgarian national, with his wife, Stanislava, serving as corporate secretary.
What followed wasn’t just a crash investigation. It was a window into a pattern that would define the next two decades of the Dobrikov family’s presence in American trucking: hire unauthorized workers, fabricate documentation, restructure when caught, and keep operating.
The FMCSA compliance review, completed June 18, 2004, proposed an Unsatisfactory safety rating for World Trucking and documented driver fraud that federal investigators found to be systematic rather than incidental.
An Illegal Alien with a Fabricated Resume
The crash driver, Nasko Nazov, had obtained his position at World Trucking through a trail of falsifications that investigators documented point by point.
Nazov listed a Wisconsin address on his driver qualification file, 4253 W. Loomis Road, Greenfield. When investigators contacted the property owner, they were told Nazov had never lived there.
His immigration status was worse. An I-94 form showed Nazov was required to leave the United States by November 2000. By March 2004, he had been in the country illegally for more than three years, operating a commercial truck the entire time.
Investigators then turned to his employment history. Nazov claimed to have worked at KGB Brothers Transport. The owner told investigators Nazov had never been employed there. He had five documented roadside inspections while working for ATA Trucking, a carrier he completely omitted from his application. He claimed employment at U.S. Cargo Express through August 2003; records showed he’d actually been terminated in July. He also failed to disclose a temporary Illinois CDL permit issued February 21, 2002, and omitted multiple speeding citations that appeared on his CDLIS record.
FMCSA cited World Trucking under 49 CFR §390.35, which prohibits carriers from maintaining driver qualification files containing false or fraudulent statements. The Field Administrator’s argument: once the 30-day investigation period under §391.23 expired without correction, World Trucking had effectively adopted and ratified the driver’s falsifications. That shifts culpability from the driver to the carrier, and it has direct implications for every successor entity that followed.
Deliberately Circumventing Illinois CDL Standards
The second driver, Marjan Milev, took a different approach to fraud. He simply avoided the state where he lived.
Milev listed a Missouri address on his driver qualification file, 4355 S. National, Apt. 511, in Springfield, to support obtaining a Missouri commercial driver’s license. When investigators confronted him, he admitted he didn’t actually live in Missouri. He used a friend’s address, he said, because “Illinois commercial driver’s license test/standards were too difficult.”
There was a second problem with Milev’s file. His lease agreement with World Trucking was dated July 29, 2003. His driver application was dated August 4, 2003. He was already under contract before the carrier had completed any qualification review, a classic retroactive paper trail.
The Restructuring Playbook
After the 2004 crash and Unsatisfactory rating proposal, World Trucking Inc. did not shut down. It transformed.
In 2008 , four years after the crash, after the regulatory storm had largely passed , the corporation was converted to Diamond Freight Inc., with Stanislava Dobrikov now serving as president. The address stayed the same. The family stayed in control.
Then, on a single date, November 16, 2022, four new limited liability companies were simultaneously registered with the Illinois Secretary of State, all traceable to the same Dobrikov family at the same Bartlett, Illinois address: 1570 Hecht Court. World Truck Service LLC, Triple Diamond Express LLC, Triple D Express LLC, and Diamond Logistics LLC all appeared in state records on the same day, with Dobrin Dobrikov listed as manager on three of them and son, Christopher, on the fourth.
This isn’t unusual family business planning. Forming four LLCs on the same date, all at the same address, all controlled by the same family, all in the same industry, while simultaneously holding active DOT operating authority across multiple carriers, is a structural pattern regulators identify when discussing chameleon carrier networks.
The Smoking Gun: One Insurance Policy for Two Carriers
When investigators look for chameleon carrier connections, shared insurance is one of the most telling indicators. In this case, the evidence is unambiguous.
Both Triple D Express Inc. (USDOT 879149) and Triple Diamond Express Inc. (USDOT 1060861) carry liability coverage through MS Transverse Insurance Company, and both policies share the same policy number: TI TS CA0001520 02, effective January 31, 2026.
Two legally separate carriers. One insurance policy. This is not similar coverage. This is the same policy. Both carriers also share the same fax number, (630) 687-1000, and operate from the same address with the same primary officer listed in FMCSA records.
In the insurance world, a single policy covering two separate DOT registrations indicates that the insurer treats them as a single operational unit. Whether FMCSA has flagged this relationship is the question.
The Numbers on the Active Carriers
While the corporate structure raises serious questions about identity and continuity, the compliance records of the active carriers are alarming on their own terms.
Triple D Express alone has accumulated 163 inspections, 80 violations, 18 out-of-service orders, and 7 crashes. Each out-of-service order represents a vehicle or driver removed from the road because it was too unsafe to continue operating.
Triple Diamond Express has 114 crashes on record in FMCSA data. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a carrier with a crash rate that should trigger automatic scrutiny, and in the context of the network described here, it demands it.
A Pattern We’ve Seen Before
For those who followed the Sam Express investigation, which connected a four-fatality Indiana crash in early 2026 to a network of Kyrgyz-operated chameleon carriers across the Chicago metro area, the Dobrikov network will look familiar.
The structural signatures are nearly identical. A primary crash event triggers regulatory scrutiny, followed by corporate restructuring that puts family members in control of successor entities. Multiple DOT numbers operate from the same physical location, sharing the same infrastructure. Insurance coverage exposes the fiction of separate legal identity.
The geography and origin of the community differ: this network appears to be Bulgarian, centered in the western Chicago suburbs of Bartlett and Lemont, rather than the Kyrgyz network in Palatine and Schaumburg. But the operational playbook, crash, restructure, continue, multiply, is functionally identical.
The Dobrikov network is not hiding. The addresses are the same. The phone numbers overlap. The insurance is shared. The family names appear in corporate filings going back to 2000. The question is whether anyone has been connecting the lines.