N.H. man pleads guilty to illegal hazmat transport
Lewis Scott Niles pled guilty June 20 to operating a commercial vehicle to transport hazardous materials without a commercial driver’s license.
According to the OIG, Niles admitted that from approximately September 2013 to April 2014, he sold and transported hazmat to be used as fuel for heating furnaces to individuals and businesses in New Hampshire and Maine.
He allegedly transported approximately 925 gallons of fuel oil and diesel fuel and approximately 1,500 gallons of flammable liquid without a CDL.
Ohio man charged with creating, providing fraudulent overweight state permits
Dhadd Hiles, doing business as The Permit Guys Consulting in Crooksville, Ohio, was charged June 22 in a scheme to defraud over-the-road trucking companies by providing and billing customers for fraudulent overweight state permits, OIG reports.
