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30 | Overdrive | August 2014 T ake I-74 west from Cincinnati, and shortly you'll cross into Indiana, topping a hill that over- looks the West Harrison weigh and inspection station. There's a fair likelihood that state police 1st Sgt. Tyler Utterback will be there, as he was on May 5, when a four-wheeler hit the precipice of that hill, appearing as if it was part of the grille of the trac- tor-trailer behind it, Utterback says. If the truck had had a PrePass unit installed, he might have bypassed the scale, and Utterback would have gotten a clear look at just how close he was following the four-wheeler in front of him. "If I was on patrol," as he often is, he says, "I would have stopped him for following too close." While the close driving didn't net the trucker's carrier points in the Unsafe TOP STATES FOR MOVING VIOLATIONS Ranked as a percentage of all viola- tions. The national average is 8.4%. Indiana 29.2% Delaware 28.6% Illinois 27.4% Oklahoma 25.5% North Dakota 20.3% Michigan 19.3% Nebraska 17.6% South Dakota 16.6% Tennessee 16% Iowa 15.5% South Carolina 15% Louisiana 14.7% Washington 14% Massachusetts 13.9% West Virginia 13.7% Idaho 13.3% Vermont 13.2% New Mexico 11.8% Arkansas 11.1% Alabama 10.8% RigDig Business Intelligence (rigdig.com/bi, 866-237-7788) data from calendar year 2013. List excludes Alaska, Hawaii and the District of Columbia. Three out of every four states in the top 20 boosted their share of moving violations marked on inspection reports in 2013, reflecting a nationwide enforcement-prioritization drift from maintenance violations to those associated with driver behavior. Find violation-priorities lists for hours, lights, brakes, tires and overall mainte- nance violations among other ranked state data via OverdriveOnline.com/csa. CSA's FALLOUT PART THREE Inspections Todd Dills Many states increasing their focus on driver violations BY TODD DILLS Shifting target