Reubin R. Pete has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, OH, to making false statements to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration concerning commercial driver's licenses. Pete, who has never held a valid CDL and is unqualified to drive a tractor-trailer, assumed the identity of a North Carolina-licensed truckdriver.

According to the DOT's Office of Inspector General, he then obtained a CDL in Ohio and began driving for Transcontinental Systems Inc. In the process, he falsified documents related to CDLs, driver's logs, drug testing, and employment applications.