Arizona Highway Patrol troopers and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) conducted the three-day operation as part of the Arrive Alive Arizona Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Detail.

During the operation, officers completed 263 commercial vehicle inspections and 195 weight checks. The department reported that 110 unsafe vehicles and drivers were removed from service, although it did not specify how many of those orders involved vehicles versus individual drivers.

Inspectors also issued 80 Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) decals to vehicles that met the applicable inspection requirements. These decals indicate that a vehicle passed a qualifying inspection without critical vehicle inspection item violations.

AZDPS shared the enforcement results earlier this week. The department did not provide a breakdown of the specific violations that led to the out-of-service orders.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has agreed to consider a change to its drug regulations after inspectors identified a gap in how certain out-of-service orders can be enforced. The agency granted a petition from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) on September 17, but no rule has changed yet.

Under 49 CFR § 392.4, a driver cannot be on duty while possessing, using, or being under the influence of specified drugs or other substances. The regulation does not contain language that expressly prohibits a driver from violating an out-of-service order issued under that section. The neighboring alcohol regulation does: it specifies a 24-hour out-of-service period and says drivers must not violate the order.

CVSA’s petition describes a case in which a driver was placed out of service for 24 hours after an inspection in Mississippi found marijuana. The driver was later stopped in Alabama while the order was still active. CVSA says a second stop can be difficult to address under § 392.4 when an officer seized the substance during the first inspection and there is no longer contraband in the vehicle.

CVSA wants the drug regulation to spell out when the 24-hour period begins and explicitly prohibit driving in violation of the order. The proposed wording would bring those provisions closer to the existing alcohol rule.

For drivers, the key distinction is where the process stands: FMCSA has agreed to start rulemaking, not adopted CVSA’s requested language. The agency says it will consider information gathered during that process, including public comments, before deciding whether to issue a final rule. Drivers should continue to follow any out-of-service order they receive; the regulatory gap identified by CVSA is not permission to resume driving.

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According to the Wyoming Highway Patrol WHP, the operation was carried out with the Colorado State Patrol as part of what they call a Mobile Enforcement and Education Team MEET Detail. The teams set up inspection checkpoints on US 287 south of Laramie, putting up signs requiring commercial trucks to pull in.

Any driver who kept rolling past the inspection zone was stopped and directed back for review by troopers and mobile inspectors.

One of those stops involved a white box truck, which rolled through the southbound inspection area without stopping. A trooper pulled the vehicle over and returned it to the checkpoint.

During that inspection, officers found the same driver had previously been cited in Colorado.

“While being inspected, troopers discovered the driver had been in violation of the English Language Proficiency ELP requirements on September 13 in Colorado and was put Out of Service,” the release stated. “The driver was arrested on repeat violations for violating Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations, English Language Proficiency, and the box truck was towed.”

Across the day, 82 commercial trucks were inspected. By the time the teams wrapped up, enforcement numbers showed how seriously the agencies were taking repeat violations and unsafe vehicles

• 24 trucks were put out of service
• 16 drivers were sidelined
• 4 arrests were made
• 1 marijuana citation was issued

Three of the arrests involved commercial drivers with repeat offenses. Two were tied to operating without a CDL, and the other was the ELP repeat offender. Colorado State Patrol also made an arrest connected to an outstanding statewide warrant.

The WHP spelled out why these checks are not just routine boxes to tick; they are aimed at the safety of professional drivers and the public.

“The Wyoming Highway Patrol takes commercial vehicle safety very seriously,” the release stated. “Various driver violations, including ELP and driving without a CDL license, and vehicle violations, brakes, overweight, etc., can lead to a driver or a vehicle being put Out of Service, meaning the driver can no longer operate the vehicle.”

They added that putting a driver or truck OOS is about preventing dangerous incidents.

“Being put Out of Service is done to ensure the safety of everyone using our roadways, regular and commercial drivers alike. When a driver is found to be operating while not complying with critical FMCSA regulations, along with repeat violations like ELP, the driver may be arrested.”

For truckers who run legally and keep their equipment compliant, operations like this can help weed out the drivers and carriers who cut corners, the same ones that give the rest of the industry a bad name. But it is also a reminder that troopers are watching closely along the Wyoming-Colorado corridor, and repeat offenses are no longer getting a slap on the wrist.

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