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CloudWatcher

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2. What? 21% of the trucks were taken off the road?

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat Apr 23, 2022, 08:48 PM

Apr 2022

... conducted more than 4,100 inspections of trucks. Troopers didn’t find any contraband but took 850 trucks off the road for various violations related to their equipment.

What? 850 of 4100 is about 21%. So 1 in 5 trucks coming into Texas were so unsafe they were kept off the road? I'm assuming these were safety violations, not something minor.

Abbott's stunt was stupid, but finding that 21% of the inspected trucks needed to be taken off the road is pretty unsettling.

I'm starting to think we need more enforcement of existing regulations.

And ... some context for my thoughts on truck safety ... this was local news for me: from April 26, 2019 ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/26/runaway-truck-crashes-into-stalled-cars-near-denver-interstate-70/3585412002/

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