On Tuesday afternoon, a 30-year-old truck driver from Philadelphia named Bekzhan Beishekeev failed to stop for slowed traffic on State Road 67 in Jay County, Indiana. He swerved into oncoming traffic and killed four Amish men from the Bryant community: Henry Eicher, 58, his sons Menno, 33, and Paul, 31, and Simon Schwartz, 22.
The truck bore a triangular mountain logo. That logo was all it took. It’s also why you see first responder photographers blocking these markings more now because they don’t want people digging. No matter what marking is on the door, the Sam Express logo is somewhere on the truck.
Within hours, the FreightX community and independent investigators had identified the carrier network behind the truck. Not because the crash exposed something new. Because the network had already been documented, flagged, reported, and investigated by industry professionals who have been sounding this alarm for years.
This Didn’t Start Tuesday
For those of us who have been doing this work online, this crash is a recurring nightmare. It’s the same bad actors, re-igniting the same scrutiny, after the same kind of tragedy that did not have to happen.…