The driver of the truck in the June 2022 crash was found guilty of vehicular homicide in a criminal case.
WELD COUNTY, Colo. — Every day, thousands of trucks contracted by the United States Postal Service (USPS) are on the road carrying mail, but not even the postal service knows who is driving for them or if the trucks are safe enough to be on the road.
The truck involved in a deadly crash back in June of 2022 in Weld County was carrying mail yet there’s a lot the postal service said it did not know.
It did not know the driver, Jesus Puebla, did not have a valid license. It did not know the truck was not covered by insurance. The postal service did not know the company hauling its mail even existed.
“USPS did not know at the time of the accident that Puebla’s medical certificate had expired, making his CDL invalid,” lawyers representing USPS wrote in a filing. “Nor did USPS know that the truck was not covered by an insurance policy.”
The filing gives 9NEWS a rare look at how little the postal service knows before a truck picks up a load of mail.
USPS contracted with a trucking company named Caminante. Caminante subcontracted the job to a company named Lucky 22.
That is illegal. The postal service still loaded up the truck with mail. Filings show USPS said it did not know anything about Lucky 22.