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A bill to require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on chameleon carriers in the United States and require the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to plan, develop, and test an advanced automation tool to help enforcement personnel detect chameleon carrier applications under the registration process of the Department of Transportation, and for other purposes.
Key claim: S5150 would require a GAO study of chameleon carriers and direct FMCSA to plan, develop, and test an advanced automation tool to help detect chameleon-carrier registration applications.
Abstract
(S5150 · 119th Congress) Latest action (2026-07-28): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Why this matters
Chameleon carriers — unsafe motor carriers that reincorporate under new identities to evade FMCSA enforcement — are a longstanding gap in registration integrity. S5150 targets that gap through a GAO diagnostic study and an FMCSA automation tool intended to flag suspect applications at intake, which if enacted would shift detection upstream in the registration process rather than relying on post-hoc enforcement.