A devastating crash in Austin, Texas that left five people dead and 11 injured on March 17th, including a 4-year-old child and an infant, has exposed a tangled web of shell companies, questionable hiring practices, and potential oversight failures tied to Amazon’s sprawling contractor delivery network.
The mainstream media makes it seem like a story simply about an 18 wheeler causing a horrible accident.
It also represents the impact of waves of immigrants brought into America by the Biden regime who were unvetted, didn’t follow the proper process and laws, and who were given workarounds to laws and regulations so they could have employment.
An estimated 6-8 million illegal immigrants entered America from 2021-2025 while Biden was said to be President. It appears that efforts to give work to some of these immigrants involved reducing or waiving the requirements to be a safe driver.
The Texas crash occurred when 18-wheeler driver Solomun Weldekeal Araya, age 37, who was operating under contract with Amazon, plowed into a traffic jam without braking: smashing through 17 vehicles before finally coming to a stop. Araya, who is facing charges related to intoxication and vehicular homicide, had reportedly only had his Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) for four months prior to the crash.
Solomun Weldekeal Araya, an 18-wheeler driver who was arrested and is facing intoxication charges after a North Austin crash that claimed five lives, including a four-year-old and an infant, was a contract driver for Amazon on a work visa from Ethiopia.
He was transporting… pic.twitter.com/jAQXvL5OIM
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) March 25, 2025
Araya is being charged with intoxication even though officers at the scene did not find alcohol and he tested negative for alcohol. The intoxication charges are stemming from what prosecutors are arguing is sleeplessness. They also claim anti-depressants might be to blame.
Two lawsuits for $100 million have been filed against Amazon and the trucking company in Travis County, Texas.
The tragedy, some assert, runs deeper than a single reckless driver. According to public records and whistleblower claims, Araya was driving under a Texas-based company called ZBN Transport LLC. The company shares a physical address—9180 Forest Lane, Apt. 202, Dallas, TX—with at least a dozen other transportation LLCs registered in the same North Dallas apartment complex, each under slightly different names or unit numbers.
One of those names, Bay Area Lines LLC, even appeared on a truck inspection record just a day after ZBN was flagged—suggesting a pattern of companies swapping names daily to dodge regulatory scrutiny.
Industry insiders claim that while occasional business name changes aren’t unheard of, daily swaps signal red flags. “This kind of name-flipping is used to reset inspection scores, hide violations, and continue operating dangerous equipment with impunity,” one trucking compliance expert noted.
Adding fuel to the fire, Araya, who is reportedly on a visa from Ethiopia, was previously cited for going 63 in a 30 mph zone, an offense that should have jeopardized his CDL. Records show he had a court date scheduled just a week after the fatal crash.
Critics are now demanding answers from Amazon, whose demand for low-cost delivery contracts has created a logistical empire built on third-party contractors, many of whom employ recent immigrants with minimal training and oversight. “These drivers don’t speak English, don’t understand U.S. road laws, and often don’t even know how to operate the vehicles they’re driving,” said a former Amazon warehouse employee who spoke anonymously.
This isn’t an isolated incident. The online retailer, in its effort to sideline UPS and FedEx, built its own contractor fleet at breakneck speed—allegedly lobbying to import foreign CDL holders to meet demand. A growing number of those drivers are being funneled into jobs through “LLC farms”—cloaked in apartment addresses and murky ownership.
Congress is already signaling today that they may push a requirement for all commercial drivers license holders to be able to speak English.
Amazing! This is happening today. Public testimony began at 10 a.m. I’ve been told that, thanks to the hard work of these American truckers and my reporting to raise awareness about non-American CDL holders who are unable to speak English, today will be a winning day! https://t.co/d2PKQy0AP7
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) March 26, 2025
Federal law currently requires CDL holders to speak and understand English.
The relevant rule is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs), 49 CFR § 391.11(b)(2), which says: “A person is qualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle if he/she can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records.”
Critics say some states or third-party testers look the other way, particularly when drivers are supplied by subcontractors or shell LLCs. There are anecdotal and documented cases of interpreters being used improperly or drivers memorizing test answers without real English proficiency.
Last year, federal prosecutors in Illinois charged the owner of an Illinois trucking company with orchestrating an elaborate scheme to help applicants fraudulently obtain Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs). According to the indictment, the owner allegedly used hidden microphones and other covert methods to provide test answers to applicants during CDL examinations, compromising the integrity of the licensing process.
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