The crash report for this case can be found here
At 1:34 a.m. on July 5, a 2020 Freightliner Cascadia running for Big EL LLC hit the back of a Honda Accord on southbound Interstate 71 in Madison County, Ohio. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says the truck’s own dash camera showed it at 75 mph in a 70, with no roadway evidence that it braked. The truck crossed the median and stopped across all three northbound lanes. Tobias “Toby” Forsythe, 21, a goalkeeper headed to UMass Lowell, died at the scene. The patrol’s supplement says his blood alcohol content was 0.169 and that the Accord was traveling slowly. The patrol coded the truck for following too closely.
The driver
The driver was Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, of Maineville. The Department of Homeland Security told ABC6 he entered the country legally with a green card in 2024; Fox News Digital, citing sources, reported it came through the diversity visa lottery. ABC6 obtained records showing he earned his Ohio commercial license that fall. That detail matters more than most coverage gave it credit for. A green card holder who lives in Ohio gets a standard Ohio CDL, not a non-domiciled one. The state’s review of about 5,000 non-domiciled licenses would never have touched his.
Hours after the crash, Ohio State Highway Patrol inspector L. Grabovich put him out of service twice. He failed the English proficiency assessment, which, since June 2025, has been an out-of-service condition nationwide. His medical certificate had expired June 24, 11 days earlier. Both are things a carrier must check before dispatching a driver, under 49 CFR 391.11 and 391.41. The inspector couldn’t review his hours of service. “Driver was incarcerated,” the report says. Troopers seized the dash camera, three cell phones, and the electronic logging device. The load paperwork lists the shipper, the bill of lading, and the cargo as “unknown,” with Columbus as both origin and destination.
Troopers say he pulled the dash camera off its mount after the crash. It was found in his pocket. Court records cited by ABC6 show a charge of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony in Ohio. ABC6 later reported he bonded out on a falsification charge, wears an ankle monitor, and that prosecutors said more charges could follow once reconstruction and toxicology are complete. Charges are allegations, and he is presumed innocent. Where he trained is not in any public record we found.
Run Big EL through a standard federal check on July 4, and it passes. Active authority, insurance on file, no out-of-service orders in the 24 months SAFER displays, two trucks and 205,284 miles declared. Its two out-of-service stops, in Arkansas in 2023 and Texas in 2024, had already aged off the screen.
The full file says more than the screen does. FMCSA’s inspection records show 14 roadside inspections of Big EL before the crash, starting in March 2023. Big EL hauled for Amazon in 2023 and 2024, for the U.S. Mail in October 2025, and out of Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in March 2026. Two inspections took a Big EL truck out of service: one in Arkansas in May 2023 and another in Texas in January 2024. An Indiana inspection in April 2023 is flagged as post-accident, with no matching crash in the federal crash file. Then nothing. From March 2024 to October 2025, the file shows no inspections, a 19-month gap covering most of the year. Big EL reported 205,284 miles on two trucks.
Its insurance was $750,000 with Berkley Casualty, the federal minimum, set in 1980. Its one earlier crash was a three-vehicle tow-away in Laredo, Texas, in April 2023. Today its USDOT number is inactive, with an FMCSA enforcement entry dated July 23, 18 days after the crash.
That is the problem with checking one company at a time. The trouble is rarely in the company. It’s in the companies around it.
The owner
Big EL has one officer on file: Elyor Rustamov. Ohio’s records show he organized the company on Sept. 29, 2020, with a commercial registered-agent service in North Canton as its agent. FMCSA lists a Gmail address and a phone number with a San Diego area code.
The area code has a history. California’s Secretary of State shows Rustamov incorporated Elton Transport Inc. on April 14, 2017, at an apartment in La Mesa, outside San Diego, and named himself its agent. Later California records list him as the company’s chief executive, chief financial officer, secretary and director at 8176 Meeting Street, Apartment 107, in West Chester, Ohio. On Sept. 29, 2022, he signed Elton Transport’s dissolution as its director. For two years, he ran a California corporation and an Ohio trucking company simultaneously. No Elton Transport in the federal carrier file matches him.
Nothing in the public record accuses Rustamov of wrongdoing. Big EL kept one name, one officer, one address, and one MC number for six years. That is part of the point. The carrier looked stable. The paper around it moved.
The street
Snider Cove Way is a residential street in Mason with 38 addresses. Federal records list four trucking companies on it, declaring 78 trucks.
Hebron Trucking LLC, 5934. Formed March 17, 2023, by Tukhfa Mukhriddinova, with its agent at an apartment on South Legare Court in West Chester. It obtained its USDOT number on Dec. 27, 2024. Today it declares 50 trucks, 55 drivers, and 3,112,666 miles, insured for $750,000 with Trisura Specialty. Federal inspectors have looked at it 33 times since it registered, five times with an out-of-service order. Thirty-two different tractors and trailers have been inspected under its number. Five came from Schneider’s used fleet, which is how small carriers normally buy trucks. One came from Big EL: VIN ending 4994, under Big EL in Kentucky in October 2025 and under Hebron by March 2026.
YWT LLC, 5925. An Indiana company. It registered with FMCSA on June 16, 2025, and declares 25 trucks and 3,116,666 miles, within 4,000 miles of Hebron’s figure. Federal inspectors have stopped its trucks five times. It didn’t register to do business in Ohio until June 17, 2026, a year after it started running, with an agent in Maineville named Akbar Ismatov. On Aug. 11 its agent became Rashid Johnson, at 5925 Snider Cove Way. FMCSA now lists Johnson as YWT’s officer.
Premier Truck Group LLC, 5927. Registered with FMCSA in September 2023 with one truck, officer Barno Abidkhodjaeva. She signed its certificate of dissolution on Nov. 29, 2024. Her name didn’t leave trucking. Ohio lien records tie her to Premier Trucking Group Inc., a Cincinnati carrier with 86 trucks, 88 drivers and 8.9 million miles, whose federal officer is Sam Avazov. A 2021 lien named her and that company together and listed her at 5927 Snider Cove Way. Premier Trucking Group Inc. has been inspected 190 times since January 2024, 42 times with an out-of-service order, and has 10 crashes on file.
Big EL, 5948. Two trucks. One dead goalkeeper.
The neighbors
Trucking runs on factoring. A small carrier sells its unpaid freight bills to a finance company for cash this week instead of in 45 days, and the factor files a lien to lock in its claim. Liens are public, and they show who is doing business with whom, and when.
On Jan. 8, 2026, Hebron and Mukhriddinova were named as debtors in a lien for Fortis 126 Trust. The next day, Abidkhodjaeva and Premier Trucking Group Inc. were named in one for the same trust. Fortis 126 Trust’s address is 9300 Metcalf Ave. in Overland Park, Kansas, the headquarters of RTS Financial, one of the largest trucking factors in the country. The same address appears on liens for sibling trusts with the same naming pattern: Grandis 125 Trust and, at 9350 Metcalf, Quantum 222 Trust.
Then Hebron switched. At 8:12 a.m. on Feb. 20, 2026, the Fortis lien was terminated. At 8:16 a.m., First Corporate Solutions, filing as a representative for an unnamed secured party, recorded a new lien on all of Hebron’s assets, including its freight receivables. Three days earlier, the 2021 lien naming Abidkhodjaeva was also terminated.
First Corporate Solutions has been here before. On Feb. 9, 2022, it filed a lien against The Greatest Generation LLC. On March 24, 2022, an amendment added a second debtor name: “Hebron Trucking.”
The money
Trucking runs on factoring. A small carrier sells its unpaid freight bills to a finance company for cash this week instead of in 45 days, and the factor files a lien to lock in its claim. Liens are public, and they show who is doing business with whom, and when. On Jan. 8, 2026, Hebron and Mukhriddinova were named as debtors in a lien for Fortis 126 Trust. The next day, Abidkhodjaeva and Premier Trucking Group Inc. were named in one for the same trust. Fortis 126 Trust’s address is 9300 Metcalf Ave. in Overland Park, Kansas, the headquarters of RTS Financial, one of the largest trucking factors in the country. The same address appears on liens for sibling trusts with the same naming pattern: Grandis 125 Trust and, at 9350 Metcalf, Quantum 222 Trust. Then Hebron switched. At 8:12 a.m. on Feb. 20, 2026, the Fortis lien was terminated. At 8:16 a.m., First Corporate Solutions, filing as a representative for an unnamed secured party, recorded a new lien on all of Hebron’s assets, including its freight receivables. Three days earlier, the 2021 lien naming Abidkhodjaeva was also terminated. First Corporate Solutions has been here before. On Feb. 9, 2022, it filed a lien against The Greatest Generation LLC. On March 24, 2022, an amendment added a second debtor name: “Hebron Trucking.”
The house
Then the house at 5934 Snider Cove Way turned out to have a longer history than the carrier using it.
In 2020, a man named Marufjon Sayfullaev formed The Greatest Generation LLC in West Chester, Ohio. It registered with the FMCSA as Hebron Trucking. In July 2021, one of its trucks was in a crash in Balch Springs, Texas, that killed two people. In March 2023, FMCSA revoked its operating authority, 12 days after a different company, Hebron Trucking LLC, was formed in Ohio by a different person.
A year later, on March 23, 2024, The Greatest Generation filed an amendment with the state of Ohio changing its name to Turan CDL School LLC. Three days after that, under the Turan name, it moved its registered agent address to 5934 Snider Cove Way. On April 8, it changed its name back. The next day, Sayfullaev formed a new company, Turan CDL School Inc., with its registered agent at the same house.
Turan CDL School is the Middletown school that federal regulators later moved to remove from the national training registry, and that Fox News Digital reported had advertised training to Uzbek speakers.
In December 2024, Hebron Trucking LLC took out its USDOT number at 5934 Snider Cove Way. On May 14, 2025, Ohio recorded two changes that day: the school’s registered agent address moved out of the house, and Hebron Trucking LLC’s moved in.
And on July 21, 2026, 16 days after the crash and five days after the federal government announced it was sending Homeland Security Investigations after CDL schools, Ohio recorded two more changes that day. Sayfullaev was replaced as The Greatest Generation’s registered agent. Turan’s registered agent was replaced too.
Here is what that does not prove. Hebron Trucking LLC’s federal officer is not Sayfullaev. The two companies share no phone number on file, and the federal inspection file holds no truck records for The Greatest Generation to compare. Big EL has no filing tie to Turan. A shared house and a shared trade name are not proof that anyone controls anything. They are exactly the affiliation factors federal regulations tell investigators to examine, and none of it is visible on any single company’s federal record.
Meeting Street
Every thread in this story runs back to one street in West Chester. Federal records list 35 motor carriers at Meeting Street addresses there, almost all of them apartment units.
The Greatest Generation’s articles of organization, filed Feb. 17, 2020, put Sayfullaev’s agent address at 8173 Meeting St., Apartment 110. Its federal address is 8171 Meeting St., Apartment 126. It declared six trucks. FMCSA moved to revoke its authority in November 2021, then discontinued that a month later, a sequence that usually means an insurance lapse fixed in time. In July 2021, one of its trucks was in a crash in Balch Springs, Texas, that killed two people and injured one. The revocation that stuck came March 29, 2023.
Apartment 126 didn’t go quiet. On Feb. 4 and Feb. 5, 2025, two more carriers registered there on back-to-back days: Shox Transport LLC and Elyor Trucking LLC, one truck each, different officers, zero miles declared. Big EL’s owner shows up on the same street in California’s records, at 8176 Meeting St., Apartment 107. Hebron’s founder started three miles away on South Legare Court.
On July 21, 2026, Ohio replaced Sayfullaev as The Greatest Generation’s agent with Sherzod Namuradov of Loveland. The same day, Turan CDL School Inc.’s agent, who by then was Sherali Butunboev, was replaced by Farrukh Kholmukhamedov. None of these people is accused of anything. They are the names on the paper, and the paper moved after the crash.
The equipment
The tractor that hit Toby Forsythe, VIN ending 2369, first shows up in the federal file in October 2024 under MAZ Express LLC of Cumming, Georgia, an eight-truck carrier, on Ohio plate PWR1726. By January 2026, it was running for Big EL on Ohio plate PXB8066.
The tractor from Big EL’s 2023 Laredo crash, on Ohio plate PWT7781, turned up under Borderlanders Inc. of Pittsburgh in October 2024, then under UMT Global Logistics of Naperville, Illinois, from June 2025 through January 2026, still wearing the same Ohio plate. UMT declares 110 trucks, 140 drivers, and 35.5 million miles, and has 42 crashes on file. Plates usually follow the owner, not the truck. A plate that rides across three carriers is the kind of thing an investigator writes down.
The trailer Big EL was pulling on July 5, VIN ending 4055 on Maine plates, was inspected under Borderlanders 13 months earlier. Three more Big EL trailers cycled through Successor Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware.
Borderlanders was incorporated in Pennsylvania on Sept. 24, 2018. Its president is Farrukhjon Akramov. It changed its registered office on Feb. 9, 2019, the same day FMCSA issued its USDOT number. It declares 109 trucks and 115 drivers, has been inspected 896 times since January 2024 with 124 out-of-service orders, and has 80 crashes on file since 2020, four of them fatal. FMCSA served it a notice of involuntary suspension effective Oct. 14. Its federal address, physical and mailing, is Suite 200 at 322 N. Shore Drive, a Regus business center that rents virtual offices from $179 a month. Sixteen other carriers list the same suite. Its phone number carries a central Pennsylvania area code, not Pittsburgh’s.
Successor Inc. lists Suite 1200 at 1000 N. West St. in Wilmington, an address 15 carriers share. Its officer, Azizbek Kaharov, is also an officer of Zeus Freight & Analytics Corp., a freight broker in Short Hills, New Jersey. Successor declares 70 trucks but only 42 drivers, has been inspected 324 times since January 2024 with 52 out-of-service orders, and has 16 crashes on file.
Borderlanders and Successor share 99 pieces of equipment in the federal file, 26 tractors and 73 trailers, with no common officer, phone or address on file. Trailers move through leasing pools. Tractors don’t, not 26 of them.
How we found it
None of this came from a SAFER check, and none of it came from one database.
I built
to cross-reference the FMCSA carrier census, authority history, insurance filings, inspections, violations and crashes against the equipment itself, every VIN and plate captured at every roadside stop, and then against the records that live outside FMCSA like the PPP/EIDL, Sanction lists from dozens of countries, the Training Provider Registry, ELD registrations, pandemic loan records, Census demographics, SEC, FBI, PHMSA, state corporate and lien filings, and the list goes on. More than 40 datasets in all. The question it asks is not “is this carrier clean?” It’s “who is this carrier connected to, and what are they carrying?”
That’s why it sees things before a crash makes them news. The Big EL tractor moved to a neighbor’s authority in March, four months before I-71. The Greatest Generation wore a CDL school’s name in 2024, two years before anyone in Washington said the word, Turan. The signals were in public records the whole time. They were just in different buildings. No other system draws on the volume of data ours does across datasets, departments, and agencies. Some comeptitors ot the product actually joked, “He’s got way too much in there.” Well, we’re about predictive data and ensuring clients understand the full risk exposure they're adopting when they insure or use a broker, carrier, insurance provider, or shipper, etc., not just vetting and adding a name and phone number.
We’ve done this before. In March, four months before this crash, I published “California’s CDL fraud factory,” tracing a CDL bribery scheme that ended in prison sentences to a network still operating under new names, by matching Training Provider Registry entries to state corporate filings, liens, phones, addresses and VINs. Earlier in this series, the same method mapped a relay network of 23 USDOT numbers sharing tractors with no common officer, phone, or address on file, which drew 5,015 roadside stops with violations, and found 946 carriers that FMCSA had placed out of service since July 2024, never rescinded, and that were inspected again anyway, 1,591 times.
We’ve led to over 40 solved cases that were stuck before the agency and feds used our system and me to help solve some of their more difficult cases.
What the government did with my data
The government was already moving on CDL schools before July 5. In December 2025, the Department of Transportation removed nearly 3,000 providers from the Training Provider Registry. Then I-71 happened.
On July 12, a week after the crash, FMCSA asked us for help with entry-level driver training schools. That afternoon we delivered ranked target lists covering 3,981 training providers, cross-referenced against carriers, equipment, crashes, sanctions and loan data, organized by ZIP code and mapped into field routes. The next day, FMCSA’s enforcement office and its special investigations team asked to work through the lists with us against their own.
On July 16, the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security announced that Homeland Security Investigations would help investigate CDL schools suspected of fraud. By Aug. 31, FMCSA had removed more than 110 training providers from its registry, linked to more than 5,000 drivers who had failed English proficiency tests, and the Justice Department had formed a multistate task force with more than 1,000 fraud leads. Turan was among the schools in our data. FMCSA has moved to remove it.
Investigators do the door knocks and make the calls, and they did their own work on each one. Our part was the map. Friday night at the Truck Safety Coalition gala, in a room full of families who have buried someone after a truck crash, FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs called me the data man. I’ll take that. I work 120 hours a week, and I devote untold hours to solving these issues in our industry because it's about safer highways, but it's also about the economic damage this costs our country, our families, and the carriers, brokers, and drivers trying to do it right. I do not bill my time, and I charge $10k for six months of access that costs me $60k in data. We’re not here for the money. We’re here to keep people alive. By the end of the year, our hope is to make our system open source. Free to everybody.
What would fix it
Every one of these links was public. None of them was connected. Three changes would connect them.
First, put equipment on the carrier record. FMCSA captures every VIN and plate at every inspection. A tractor moving between USDOT numbers on the same street should flag automatically.
Second, read the states. Name changes, agent changes, and amendments filed weeks apart are where reincarnation hides, and they live in 50 Secretary of State databases nobody in the federal system is reading.
Third, use the rule on the books. Congress strengthened FMCSA’s power in 2012 to consolidate records of affiliated carriers and revoke those built to dodge a bad history. A transportation defense firm wrote this June that enforcement of it has been “essentially nonexistent.”
Toby Forsythe started every game in goal for Shawnee State last year. The truck that hit him belonged to a company with a clean-looking record, on a street where the paperwork ran in circles.
The record looked clean. The network didn’t. There is no reason we can’t solve these issues from apredictive posture vs a reactive one. We can analyze data in ways that tell us where vehicles are likely to move next when you close a chameleon carrier down. We literally have shelved data for shelved entities that are sitting and waiting to just throw equipment on them when the dead entity is closed.
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Disclosure: Tea Technologies, which I founded, provides data and advisory services to FMCSA and various state and federal agencies.