Driver LegitimacyInitiative & Summit
Shippers: Who's Got Your Freight?™
Stop Cargo Theft at the Shipper's Dock
Verify the driver before releasing the freight.
Driver Legitimacy Matters
Every time a commercial truck pulls up to a loading dock, someone must answer one question: Is this driver legitimate?
200,000 to 400,000 unauthorized drivers are estimated to be operating commercial vehicles on U.S. highways right now. Many hold fraudulent CDLs. Many have no legal authorization to work. All of them are hauling freight past your loading dock.
Every load released to an unverified driver exposes shippers, brokers, and carriers to catastrophic liability — cargo theft, insurance fraud, supply chain disruption, and worst of all, preventable tragedy on America's roads.
Shippers control one critical point in the supply chain:
Who is allowed to pick up their freight.
The Driver Legitimacy Initiative™ provides the framework to close this gap — a federal standard requiring identity verification, legal work authorization confirmation, and CDL validation before any freight changes hands.
This is not about blame. This is about responsibility.
And preventing the next preventable tragedy.
Shippers Must Verify
Every driver is legitimate. That means confirming their identity, their legal authorization to work, and their valid CDL.
Before any freight is released. This is non-negotiable.
The Driver Legitimacy Initiative is for people like Dalilah — the victims of illegitimate drivers.
We stand so her story does not fade away — and so no other family has to live through what hers has. Every verification, every law, every summit is for her, and for the next child we refuse to lose.
The Faces Not Seen
For every story shared, there are countless others. Families who grieve in silence. Parents who buried children. Spouses left without answers.
The Numbers Behind the Names
Estimated Unauthorized Drivers on U.S. Highways
200,000 - 400,000
Commercial Motor Vehicle Incidents
Thousands Annually
Why We Cannot Look Away
- •Families destroyed by incidents that could have been prevented through basic verification.
- •Communities shaken by crashes involving unauthorized drivers operating commercial vehicles.
- •Parents who will never see their children graduate, marry, or live their lives.
- •Shipper and carrier operations compromised by fraud, theft, and liability from unverified drivers.
- •Enforcement struggling with an endless cycle because accountability stops at the incident, not at the hire.
Every face represents a moment where a simple question—Is this driver legally authorized?—was never asked. Every family represents a verification gap that the Driver Legitimacy Initiative was created to close.
States Have a Responsibility to Protect Their Citizens
States issue the CDL. States patrol the highways. States set the rules of the road — and they hold the authority to fix the verification gap that left Dalilah Coleman with a life-altering brain injury.
That's why we're carrying Dalilah's story to every state Capitol — pushing for driver-verification legislation, state by state, until no family hears "I lost my daughter that day" again.
Who's Got Your Freight?™
Every day, unauthorized drivers show up at loading docks across America—and nobody knows who they really are.
The Problem
Drivers arrive with questionable credentials, fraudulent CDLs, or no legitimate authorization. Shippers hand over valuable freight to complete strangers.
The Risk
Cargo theft, insurance fraud, liability nightmares, and supply chain disruption. When you don't know who's behind the wheel, you're gambling with millions.
The Solution
A verification framework that proves driver legitimacy before freight leaves your dock. This summit is building that standard.
You wouldn't let a stranger walk out of your warehouse with inventory.
Why do we let them drive away with entire truckloads?
Legitimate Drivers Start With
the Company They Represent
You can't verify a driver you can't see — and you can't see a carrier with no footprint. A real website, branded email, and published MC/DOT credentials are the first proof that a company operates openly. That's why the Initiative builds them for motor carriers.
Stand With Dalilah
I stood with Dalilah on a stage at the Louisville Truck Show, and let me tell you — she is one special girl. Her story is why this initiative exists. The work on The Dalilah Law is now focused on the states — taking the fight to protect our roads and our families to statehouses across the country.
If you can chip in for her, that would be a blessing — and it fuels the change we are working for every day.
The framework for CDL verification, fraud prevention, and public safety.
Be part of the movement to make every driver legitimate.