It was the type of scheme that makes investigators from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) want to "dig deep" — one in which a company's owners, dispatchers, and a variety of operations people were all knowingly breaking the rules.

In the end, the airport shuttle firm based in New Britain, Connecticut, would pay a $75,000 fine, while its owners were ordered to divest themselves of all ownership interests in the firm for a 5-year probation period.

According to investigators, the firm's dispatchers assigned drivers to trips knowing that the drivers would be exceeding the regulated limits of on-duty driving time. Meanwhile, the owners instructed employees to record falsely in the company logs that the driver was off duty during those times. The falsified logs were then submitted to FMCSA for a routine inspection — or perhaps a not-so-routine inspection.

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