At the time of the crash, Hope Trans listed Aishat Magomedova as its CEO. Florida records show the company changed the registered agent on record to Todd August days after the crash. Magomedova and her husband, Sarvar Muradov, have been connected to at least three other trucking companies – all of which shut down following safety issues.
One of those companies, Kardan Trucking, was involved in a 16-vehicle pileup in Iowa in 2023 that killed two people. Less than a month earlier, another Kardan driver died in a separate crash in Iowa. Kardan shut down later that year.
The CBS News Texas I-Team traced more than a dozen of its trucks, using VINs from federal inspection records, to Bee Zone Logistics, also run by Muradov. When Bee Zone stopped operating, those same trucks reappeared under Hope Trans LLC.
The crash near Terrell was not the first time a truck contracted to haul U.S. mail was involved in a fatal crash.
A 2024 government audit found 43 different contractors were involved in at least 373 crashes between 2018 and 2022, resulting in 89 deaths. However, the audit also found the Postal Service “did not always know who was authorized to transport the mail” and “did not track contractor accidents and fatalities.”
