A federal agency is taking action against the trucking company involved in a crash that killed five people near Terrell, Texas earlier this year.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed an unsatisfactory safety rating for Hope Trans LLC. According to federal regulations , an unsatisfactory rating is the FMCSA's "preliminary determination that the motor carrier is 'unfit' to continue operating in interstate commerce."

Hope Trans LLC must take "substantive corrective actions" within 60 days or the company could be ordered off the road, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Transportation said.

Five people were killed in June when a Hope Trans LLC semi hauling U.S. mail slammed into a line of stopped cars on Interstate 20. The driver, Alexis Osmani Gonzalez

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