Damir Sisic, Falsifying Driver Records, Rhode Island 2021

PROVIDENCE – In a shocking revelation, Damir Sisic, the owner of the now defunct Woonsocket commercial trucking company Sisic Transport Service LLC, admitted to falsifying thousands of electronic entries in service logbooks for approximately 20 drivers.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Sisic altered the data collected by onboard electronic data gathering devices installed in his trucks, which reflected the actual number of hours his drivers operated the vehicles.

Sisic’s actions, which occurred between 2013 and 2018, were in direct violation of U.S. Department of Transportation regulations, enforced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The regulations require accurate record keeping and operational requirements, including records related to drivers’ actual hours of service.

Damir Sisic, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to falsify records in U.S. District Court in Providence on an exact date not specified, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Special Agent in Charge Douglas Shoemaker, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, Northeast Region.

Sisic is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy on January 7, 2021.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ly T. Chin.

Sisic Transport Service LLC, the trucking company owned by Damir Sisic, is no longer in operation. The company owned approximately eleven commercial truck tractors and ten box-style commercial trailers, and employed between seven and ten drivers at a time.

Sisic provided altered driving records to a State Trooper investigating the fatality of an STS driver who was driving an STS truck that occurred in Oklahoma on April 22, 2018, and to an FMCSA investigator during a compliance review.

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