Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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C alifornia is no slouch when it comes to enforc- ing trucking regulations, yet the state conducted 65,000 fewer truck and driver inspections than Texas in 2013. While the Lone Star State is the largest of the contiguous states, there are other reasons it recorded a whopping 534,304 inspections last year. There are intense oilfi eld operations in the Eagle Ford Shale area and elsewhere. Numerous interstate highways, with some of the nation's highest speed limits, criss-cross its regions. Those highways host high volumes of truck traffi c, in- cluding many Mexico-domiciled carriers along the border commercial zone. These are also factors in Texas ranking No. 5 among the contiguous United States for truck-involved fatality crash density. The Texas Department of Public Safe- ty has responded accordingly. The state ranks No. 4 for overall inspection intensity in Overdrive's analysis, up a spot from 32 | Overdrive | November 2014 If you're running through the Lone Star State, don't skimp on pre-trip inspections. No other state records a higher percentage of maintenance violations. BY TODD DILLS CSA's FALLOUT STANDOUT STATES Texas Texas is big not only on inspections, but also on issuing maintenance violations. DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS Todd Dills