Overview
- During a four-day, multi-agency sweep, inspectors checked about 3,300 commercial drivers and took 176 out of service.
- Authorities cited 42 for federal immigration violations, arrested 35 on criminal charges, and removed 54 for failing a federal English-proficiency rule for commercial drivers.
- Officials highlighted cargo-theft threats from transnational groups and cited a Sumter County case of a trucker at a 0.27 blood alcohol level, far above the 0.04 limit for commercial drivers.
- Florida plans to keep the enforcement pressure on and add a new inspection site near the Alabama border to expand checks beyond the operation.
- The state typically conducts about 100,000 inspections a year, with many trucks sidelined for mechanical defects and about one in ten drivers taken off the road for violations.