{"id":624194,"date":"2017-06-06T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=624194"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:27:53","slug":"intensified-commercial-vehicle-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=624194","title":{"rendered":"Intensified Commercial Vehicle Inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/DPS-vehicle-inspection2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/DPS-vehicle-inspection2-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-624199\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8211; State troopers in Northeast Texas are joining with law enforcement agencies around the state and around the nation to conduct intensified commercial vehicle inspections. Through Thursday, Roadcheck 2017 is the annual drive to increase motor carrier, vehicle, driver and cargo safety and security. State troopers will be on the lookout for commercial vehicles, including 18-wheelers and buses, with serious equipment violations and drivers out of compliance with state and federal requirements.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During Roadcheck 2017, specially trained troopers and civilian personnel will inspect commercial vehicles for equipment violations involving brakes, tires, lights and loading standards. Troopers will check driver licenses and log books, which document how long the driver has been on the road.  In conjunction with these efforts, DPS will also be watching for aggressive, distracted, fatigued or impaired passenger vehicle drivers, the cause of most commercial vehicle crashes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, DPS and other Texas law enforcement agencies participating in Roadcheck inspected 7,795 commercial vehicles. The inspections found that approximately 22.5% of the vehicles had serious violations that required the truck or bus be placed out of service until repairs could be made. Inspectors also placed 224 drivers out of service for various violations, including driving over the maximum number of hours and failing to have the proper type of driver license for the vehicle being driven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8211; State troopers in Northeast Texas are joining with law enforcement agencies around the state and around the nation to conduct intensified commercial vehicle inspections. Through Thursday, Roadcheck 2017 is the annual drive to increase motor carrier, vehicle, driver and cargo safety and security. State troopers will be on the lookout for commercial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=624194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intensified Commercial Vehicle Inspections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":624199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 05:34:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624200,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624194\/revisions\/624200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}