Follow-Up: Arkansas Highway Police Announce Operation Highway Shield Results: 1,724 Inspections and 44 Arrests in 48 Hours
Arkansas — Arkansas Highway Police on October 30 announced the final results of Operation Highway Shield, a joint enforcement effort that ran for 48 hours from 6 a.m. on October 27 to 6 a.m. on October 29. Officers conducted 1,724 commercial vehicle inspections, placed 393 drivers and vehicles out of service, and made 44 criminal arrests.
The operation was conducted by Arkansas Highway Police together with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with enhanced inspections at weigh stations along interstate highways and other approved commercial vehicle corridors statewide. It targeted unqualified drivers, unsafe vehicles, fraudulent trucking practices, drug trafficking, human trafficking, cargo theft and stolen vehicles.
The operation found more than 1,000 motor carrier safety violations, issued 369 traffic citations and warnings, identified more than 330 unqualified or unauthorized drivers, recorded 183 English-language proficiency violations and 74 immigration violations that resulted in federal immigration enforcement, and recovered one stolen trailer.
Source: GSM America
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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