Chicago-Area Trucking Company Forced Drivers to Falsify Logs: NBC 5 Investigates

A suburban trucking company forced its drivers to break the law by falsifying logs and staying on the road for hours longer than they should, according to an NBC 5 Chicago investigative report. A driver who says he was fired from LEGS Transport for refusing a long run recorded his supervisor insisting that he change his logs and drive the extra hours or he’d risk losing his job.

“That’s part of the job,” he was told.

NBC aired the report Monday night. LEGS Transport is based in Bellwood and lists a Naperville mailing address — 4851 Clearwater Lane, Naperville 60541 — which is a house.

“I was basically told to change my logs if I wanted to keep my job,” the driver told NBC Chicago, explaining how he falsified his logs to show he began a trip to Colorado in Nebraska when he actually began his trip right here in suburban Chicago. “I had to do it. ... If I didn’t do it, they’d just find another driver that would.”

» WATCH: The NBC 5 Investigates video report on LEGS Transport

NBC reports that Federal Motor Carrier Administration twice cited the company for falsified logs during the last two years. LEGS Transport refused to answer NBC Chicago’s questions.

In the last two years, seven people have died on Chicago-area interstates in crashes reportedly involving truckers who were on the road past their legal limits, including an Illinois State Trooper and an Illinois Tollway worker.