Has FMCSA’s Decade-Old Chameleon Carrier System Been Running on Autopilot?
When a November 2025 draft memo from the Department of Transportation surfaced promising a groundbreaking "data-driven severity matrix" to catch chameleon carriers, it raised uncomfortable questions about ARCHI (Application Review and Chameleon Investigation), built with $3.5 million in congressional funding in 2012-2013. Is this bureaucratic amnesia, rebranding of an underperforming system, or evidence that FMCSA's…
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