2026年6月5日 17:30:51 美国东部时间 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：史蒂夫·赖利，
迈克尔·卡普兰 记者兼制片人
迈克尔·卡普兰是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻调查部门屡获殊荣的记者兼制片人，他擅长独家报道和制作长篇电视调查节目，其作品曾在《60分钟》、美国有线电视新闻网以及《纽约时报》刊发。
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哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一项调查发现，上周参与弗吉尼亚州致命撞车事故的巴士运营公司，与一个规模更大的旅游公司网络存在关联，其中一家公司十年前就因“过度”超速违规被监管机构关停。目前联邦当局也正在调查这些关联。
该网络带有联邦安全监管机构审查过的运营商的典型特征：这些运营商通过更换不同名称成立新公司来维持运营，但仍使用原地址、原班人马，有时甚至使用同一批巴士。在货运和客运巴士行业，这类公司通常被称为“变色龙运输商”。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻耗时一年的调查已在全美范围内识别出至少1万家此类公司。
“这本质上是在隐藏自己的身份，”卡车和巴士行业安全顾问罗布·卡彭特表示，“当一家公司消失后再以全新面目出现，所有劣质刹车、不合格司机的问题都会随之消失，直到州际公路上发生撞车事故，才会将一切重新暴露在阳光下。”
5月29日，E&P旅游公司的一辆巴士在弗吉尼亚州斯塔福德县95号州际公路的作业区撞上停滞车流，造成5人死亡、数十人受伤。
2026年5月29日，一辆巴士在弗吉尼亚州昆蒂科附近的95号州际公路撞上其他车辆，造成5人死亡。弗吉尼亚州州警 美联社供图
此次事故并非孤例：2024年，E&P旅游公司的一辆巴士在北卡罗来纳州一处建筑工地撞上一辆汽车，造成9人受伤。
据一位熟悉调查情况的消息人士透露，美国交通部目前正在调查E&P旅游公司与东北地区十几家现有及已关停巴士公司的潜在关联。
美国交通部长肖恩·达菲表示，联邦机动车运输安全管理局正在与其他机构合作调查此次最新撞车事故。“任何为不合格司机上路提供便利的公司、培训师或学校，都将面临严格审查，”达菲说。
联邦机动车运输安全管理局的一位发言人周四拒绝透露调查细节。
联邦记录显示，除了这两起事故外，E&P旅游公司在两年内三次因“超速15英里/小时及以上”被处罚，还曾因一名司机未通过英语能力测试被罚一次。
上周撞车事故中的巴士司机、来自纽约州斯塔滕岛的董静（Jing S. Dong）目前面临五项过失杀人重罪指控。尽管该公司有违规记录，E&P旅游公司仍于今年4月获得了联邦机动车运输安全管理局的“合格”安全评级。
2026年5月29日，一辆巴士在弗吉尼亚州昆蒂科附近的95号州际公路撞上其他车辆后驶离路面。弗吉尼亚州州警 美联社供图
E&P旅游公司于2023年11月在北卡罗来纳州注册，总部登记为北卡罗来纳州金斯山的一处住宅公寓，首席执行官为刘硕（Shuo Liu）。记者通过该公司的邮箱和电话号码试图联系刘硕，但未立即获得成功。
E&P旅游公司2023年提交给联邦机动车运输安全管理局的文件显示，该公司的管理人员为高 Joyce（Joyce Gao）。美国巴士协会名录同时显示，高 Joyce 还是另一家巴士公司超级巴士公司（Super Bus Inc.）的首席执行官。
根据马萨诸塞州的记录，超级巴士公司总裁荣海高（Ronghai Gao）周四对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，名录信息有误，他本人才是超级巴士公司的首席执行官。
荣海高表示，高 Joyce 直到大约今年4月还在超级巴士公司担任簿记员。他拒绝透露自己与高 Joyce 是否存在亲属关系。“这属于我的个人私事，”他说，“我不能透露相关信息。”
荣海高同样拒绝就高 Joyce 在当时新成立的E&P旅游公司担任管理人员期间，同时受雇于他的公司一事置评。“那是她的个人私事，”他说。荣海高拒绝回答更多问题并挂断了电话。记者试图联系高 Joyce 也未获成功。
联邦记录显示，超级巴士公司目前拥有联邦机动车运输安全管理局颁发的“合格”安全评级，过去两年内共有15项违规记录，包括超速等问题。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻发现，荣海高和高 Joyce 的名字与东北地区多家现有及已关停的巴士运营公司存在关联。
其中一家公司是潘多拉旅游公司（Pandora Travel Inc.），这家总部位于马萨诸塞州的公司曾在纽约市一家门店经营往返美国东部多地的常规巴士旅游业务。联邦监管机构在2014年的一份新闻稿中指责该公司“持续严重违反此前认定的联邦安全法规，且拒不整改”。
联邦机动车运输安全管理局的调查记录显示，荣海高是潘多拉旅游公司的总经理。纽约市的登记文件显示，他同时被列为该公司的联系人，登记地址正是上述门店。
“尽管已知司机存在‘超过规定限速行驶’的情况，潘多拉旅游公司仍未对司机进行监控，也未采取纠正措施制止不安全驾驶行为，”联邦机动车运输安全管理局的一名检查员在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻查阅的监管记录中写道。
记录显示，潘多拉旅游公司的司机存在“不安全驾驶行为模式”，其中一名司机拥有23项超速和行驶违规记录。
针对潘多拉旅游公司的处罚包括：2014年1月在暴雪天气中操作不当，导致车辆在新泽西州80号州际公路侧翻，造成7人受伤。
根据检查记录，联邦机动车运输安全管理局审查了GPS数据，发现4名司机“在所审查的135天中，有50天以上超速10英里/小时及以上”。
2014年，联邦机动车运输安全管理局官员走访潘多拉旅游公司位于马萨诸塞州劳伦斯的总部时，发现办公室内只有一张空桌子和一台吸尘器，没有员工和商业文件，监管文件中的照片和笔记记录了这一情况。
监管机构2014年与潘多拉旅游公司达成和解协议，允许其在满足特定条件的情况下继续运营。
2017年，监管机构发现该公司“一贯逃避监管合规，或掩盖、隐瞒违规行为”，遂将其永久关停。
After deadly Virginia bus crash, investigators probe company’s links to other carriers
2026-06-05 17:30:51 EDT / CBS News
By Steve Reilly,
Michael Kaplan Reporter and Producer
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The company that operated a bus involved in a deadly crash in Virginia last week has ties to a broader network of travel firms, including one shut down by regulators a decade ago due “excessive” speeding violations, a CBS News investigation has found. Now, federal authorities are also looking into those connections.
The network bears some of the hallmarks of operators who, under scrutiny of federal safety regulators, stay in business by creating new companies under different names, but at the same locations, with the same people and and sometimes using the same buses. In the trucking and passenger bus industry, they are commonly called chameleon carriers. The phenomenon has been the subject of a yearlong CBS News investigation that identified at least 10,000 of them across the country.
“It’s about hiding who you are,” said Rob Carpenter, a safety consultant for the trucking and busing industries. “When a company gets to disappear and come back as a stranger, every bad brake and unqualified driver disappears right along with it until a wreck on the interstate drags it all back into the daylight.”
Five people were killed and dozens injured on May 29 when an E&P Travel Inc. bus slammed into traffic stopped at a work zone on I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia.
Five people were killed when a bus struck vehicles on Interstate 95 near Quantico, Virginia, on May 29, 2026. Virginia State Police via AP
That crash followed a similar incident in 2024 when nine people were injured when an E&P Travel bus rammed into a vehicle at a construction site in North Carolina.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is currently probing E&P Travel Inc.’s potential links to more than a dozen current and former bus companies operating in the Northeast, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is working with other agencies to investigate the latest crash, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said. “Any company, trainer, or school that contributed to putting an unqualified driver on the road will face intense scrutiny,” Duffy said.
An FMCSA spokesperson on Thursday declined to discuss details of the investigation.
In addition to the accidents, E&P Travel itself has been cited three times in two years for “speeding 15 or more miles per hour over the speed limit” and once for a driver who failed an English proficiency test, federal records show.
The driver of the bus in last week’s crash, Jing S. Dong of Staten Island, New York, is now facing five felony involuntary manslaughter charges. Despite the company’s history of violations, E&P received a “satisfactory” safety rating from the FMCSA in April.
The bus ended up off the road after crashing into other vehicles on Interstate 95 in near Quantico, Virginia, on May 29, 2026. Virginia State Police via AP
E&P Travel was incorporated in North Carolina in November 2023, listing its headquarters as a residential apartment in Kings Mountain, N.C., and its CEO as Shuo Liu. Efforts to reach Liu at the company’s email address and phone number were not immediately successful.
E&P Travel’s filings with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2023 list its officer as Joyce Gao. Joyce Gao is also listed on a motorcoach association directory as the CEO of a separate bus company, Super Bus Inc.
Ronghai Gao, the president of Super Bus Inc. according to Massachusetts records, told CBS News Thursday that listing is incorrect and that he is the CEO of Super Bus.
Ronghai Gao said Joyce Gao was a bookkeeper at Super Bus until about April. He declined to say whether he and Joyce Gao are related. “I cannot tell you about it,” he said. “This is my personal stuff.”
Ronghai Gao also declined to discuss Joyce Gao’s apparent employment at his company while she was an officer at the then newly-formed E&P Travel. “That’s her personal stuff,” he said. Gao declined to answer further questions and the call was terminated. Efforts to reach Joyce Gao were not successful.
Super Bus currently has a “Satisfactory” safety rating from the FMCSA, according to federal records, which list 15 violations over the past two years including speeding and other issues.
The names Ronghai Gao and Joyce Gao are tied to multiple current and former busing operations in the Northeast, CBS News found.
One of those companies is Pandora Travel Inc., a Massachusetts-headquartered firm that ran regular bus tours from a storefront in New York City to destinations across the eastern United States. Federal regulators accused the company in a 2014 press release of “continuing serious violations and non-compliance with previously identified federal safety regulations.”
Ronghai Gao was identified in FMCSA investigative records as the general manager for Pandora Travel. He’s also listed as the point of contact for the company in New York City records listing the address at that same storefront.
“Pandora Travel Inc failed to monitor drivers and take corrective action to deter unsafe driving practices,” an FMCSA inspector wrote in regulatory records reviewed by CBS News, despite knowledge of drivers operating in “excess of posted speed limits.”
Records show Pandora’s drivers had “histories that would show patterns of unsafe driving practices,” including one driver with 23 speeding and moving violations.
Citations against Pandora Travel included failing to exercise caution while operating in a heavy snow storm in January 2014, resulting in a rollover crash on I-80 in New Jersey that injured seven people.
The FMCSA reviewed GPS data and found four drivers were “exceeding the posted speeds by 10mph or greater for 50 days out of 135 days reviewed,” according to inspection records.
When FMCSA officials visited the Lawrence, Massachusetts, headquarters of Pandora Travel in 2014 they found an empty desk, a vacuum cleaner, and no staff or business paperwork, according to pictures and notes included in the regulatory filings.
Regulators reached a settlement agreement with Pandora Travel in 2014 that allowed it to continue operating under certain conditions.
Regulators ordered Pandora Travel shut down for good in 2017 after finding that the company “engaged in a pattern or practice of avoiding regulatory compliance or masking or otherwise concealing regulatory noncompliance.”
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