Regardless, I'm not pointing fingers here, I've seen tens of players doing the same thing. My point is transports shouldn't be capable of that much firepower at all, whether they can maintain it is a moot point, you could probably down the best VHF shield in one or two salvos with those armaments.
Behemoth, like I've explained, this isn't aimed at you at all, that train just happened to nudge the part of my memory I'd been storing this post in. That said- I think you should have to battle your way to get ID's, even trader ones, as everyone has enemies. To do this you should also use assault craft, not trade specific vehicles. It's just unfortunate for you that you hadn't decided on a role to play before earning your train. That's my view anyway.
Perhaps the class downgrade is still too stern a solution, just some way of prohibiting capship weapon use on non-capships... that same age-old quibble with Discovery :0/