A recent rise in trucking companies cutting corners and ignoring Federal Motor Carrier Transportation Laws could be placing the public at an elevated risk. Recently, the U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) have shut down two separate trucking companies for blatantly disregarding the law and safety. Cutting corners is a bad practice that rises in all businesses when the economy is bad, but this simply is not acceptable when you are talking about companies that put heavy 18 wheelers and other commercial vehicles on the public highways. On March 30, 2012, the FMCSA ordered Utah-based Reliable Transportation Services, Inc. to immediately cease all transportation services. Reliable Transportation Services, Inc. and the trucking companys principal, Jay Zachary Barber, were both declared an…