We Got It Wrong. Here Is How We Fixed It, and Why It Matters.

This article is a correction and an explanation.

For months, Trunk attributed warehouse fraud, hostage loads, and connections to the Hasut/Handle With Care network to Logistics Moving Services LLC (DOT 4433059), a legitimate Florida intrastate carrier based in Bradenton. That was wrong. The company connected to the fraud network is Logistic Moving Services LLC (no 's'), a dissolved Georgia company with no DOT number, formed by Moran Hasut at the same Tucker, Georgia address as Handle With Care.

One letter. Two completely different companies. We got it wrong, and a legitimate business was harmed by our error.

A retired transportation attorney identified the mistake by cross-referencing Georgia corporate filings against FMCSA registrations. We have corrected every article, removed the wrongly attributed red flags from the Florida company's profile, and are publishing this explanation so the record is complete.

Logistic Moving Services LLC (no 's'): Georgia LLC formed September 20, 2019 by Moran Hasut. Registered agent: Moran Hasut. Address: 1800 Montreal Ct Unit B, Tucker, GA 30084, the same building as Handle With Care Moving and Transportation LLC. Administratively dissolved September 8, 2023. No DOT number. No FMCSA registration. Georgia Secretary of State Control Number 19129895. This is the entity that leased the Leavenworth, Kansas warehouse where consumer belongings were stored without authorization, and the entity consumers were told to make checks payable to when JCS Moving collected payment.

Logistics Moving Services LLC (with 's'): Florida LLC, DOT 4433059, based in Bradenton, FL. A legitimate intrastate carrier that has been in business since 2018. No connection to Hasut, Handle With Care, JCS, or any entity in the Tucker, Georgia fraud network.

The moving industry has remarkably little naming variety. Search FMCSA's database for 'American' and you will find hundreds of carriers. Search 'Express' or 'National' or 'United' and the same thing happens. This is not an accident. It is a feature of how fraud operators work.

Scammers choose names that are close to legitimate companies for three reasons:

First, consumer confusion. A consumer searching for 'Allied Van Lines' finds a company calling itself 'Allied Van Lines Moving and Storage LLC,' a fake entity registered in Florida by a fraudster. The consumer believes they hired a trusted national brand. They hired a shell company that will subcontract their move to an unlicensed carrier and dissolve within weeks.

Second, payment obfuscation. When Hasut's dissolved Georgia company 'Logistic Moving Services LLC' collects payment, a bank processing a check or wire to 'Logistics Moving Services' (with the 's') would not flag the discrepancy. The names are close enough that the legitimate company's banking infrastructure could theoretically be exploited, or at minimum, the paper trail becomes harder to follow.

Third, investigative confusion. It worked on us. We are a research platform that cross-references corporate filings, FMCSA data, and court records, and we still conflated the two entities for months. If a platform dedicated to tracking fraud cannot reliably distinguish 'Logistic' from 'Logistics,' regulators processing thousands of complaints are even less likely to catch it.

This is not limited to the Hasut case. The fake 'Allied Van Lines Moving and Storage LLC' that defrauded the Eschbach family in Chicago was formed by Zackary Sudakoff in Boca Raton and dissolved days after the move. The real Allied Van Lines, one of the largest van lines in the country, had no involvement. Same pattern: a name close enough to a legitimate company to create confusion, registered as a disposable LLC in a state with minimal corporate oversight.

Trunk published the following errors across 11 articles and 1 mover profile:

We attributed DOT 4433059 (the Florida company) to the Hasut fraud network. Wrong. The Hasut entity has no DOT.

We listed the Florida company's profile with red flags including 'warehouse used as holding facility for consumer belongings,' 'multiple police calls regarding stolen property,' and 'pattern consistent with hostage load and stolen goods operations.' All of those descriptions apply to Hasut's dissolved Georgia company, not to the Florida carrier.

We tagged the Florida company in articles about the Leavenworth warehouse, the Sherwood Lane network, and the Handle With Care reincarnation chain. Every tag was wrong.

Kelly C.'s landlord report about the Leavenworth warehouse was filed against the Florida company's profile. The warehouse was leased by the Georgia entity.

Every reference to DOT 4433059 in connection with the Hasut network has been corrected across all 11 articles. The Florida company's profile has been cleared of all wrongly attributed red flags and consumer reports. The correction is noted inline in the Hasut operator profile article.

The Georgia entity is now correctly identified throughout as 'Logistic Moving Services LLC (dissolved GA company, no DOT)' with the Georgia Secretary of State filing as the source.

This article serves as the public record of the error and the correction.

Name confusion is a systemic vulnerability in moving industry regulation. FMCSA's registration system does not prevent a new applicant from registering a name nearly identical to an existing carrier. There is no trademark check, no similarity flag, no warning to the consumer or the existing company.

A consumer checking FMCSA's database for 'Logistics Moving Services' would find the legitimate Florida carrier and assume it was the company handling their move. A consumer told to make a check payable to 'Logistic Moving Services' would have no way to know that was a dissolved Georgia shell with no federal authority.

The absence of a name similarity check in FMCSA's registration process is not a minor administrative gap. It is a tool that fraud operators exploit repeatedly. Until the registration system flags applications with names substantially similar to existing carriers, this pattern will continue.

We will continue to verify corporate filings against FMCSA registrations. When we get it wrong, we will say so publicly.