Enact the SAFE Act to create an advanced FMCSA vetting tool using automation and emerging technologies to detect chameleon motor carriers before they are allowed on the road.

According to the trucking associations’ letter, the SAFE Act would create an advanced vetting tool for companies and their drivers, giving the associations “much-needed and up-to-date information on the scope and frequency of chameleon carriers and the harm they have caused.”

Hageman's SAFE Act is described as a proposed federal measure to create an advanced vetting tool for trucking companies and drivers to identify chameleon carriers and improve highway safety.

EXCLUSIVE: Trucking Associations Band Together In Endorsing SAFE Act | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman
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Hageman’s official trucking priority page says she introduced the Safety and Accountability in Freight Enforcement (SAFE) Act to require a new advanced automation tool to improve detection and accountability for chameleon carriers.

Within days of the lookback window, Hageman reported concrete legislative action matching the promise: introduction of the SAFE Act. The page describes the bill as aimed at chameleon or reincarnated carriers that evade penalties and enforcement by reopening under new identities. It does not state that the bill has been enacted.

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Trucking | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman
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FMCSA announced Motus, a new online registration system intended to streamline identification and incorporate enhanced verification tools, with Phase II planned for Q2 2026.

FMCSA is separately rolling out a modernized registration system with verification features that overlap with the promise’s vetting objective. This is administrative progress toward better registration screening, but it is not enactment of Hageman’s SAFE Act and does not specifically say it detects chameleon motor carriers before operation.

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Federal Register: Availability of Motus, FMCSA’s New Registration System
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The notice says Motus requires identity proofing for new applicants and will verify identities for about 800,000 existing registrants when they first access the system.

This supports partial delivery of the underlying vetting concept: FMCSA is adding identity verification to registration. It does not prove the SAFE Act was enacted or that an advanced chameleon-carrier detection tool mandated by that act exists.

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Federal Register: Availability of Motus, FMCSA’s New Registration System
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FMCSA said Motus will add business verification and edit checks to confirm company authenticity, validate legal name, address, ownership, officials, and compliance status.

Business verification and edit checks are relevant to preventing fraudulent or reincarnated carrier registrations. The notice describes a partial administrative tool, not a congressionally enacted SAFE Act requirement.

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Federal Register: Availability of Motus, FMCSA’s New Registration System
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FMCSA cited fraudulent registrations, account hijacking, motor carrier number sales, and fake initial registrations, and said it increased Motus security efforts to reduce fraud opportunities.

The agency is addressing closely related motor-carrier registration fraud, but the source does not identify SAFE Act enactment or a specific chameleon-carrier automation tool. The promise remains short of full delivery on the available official record.

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Federal Register: Availability of Motus, FMCSA’s New Registration System
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