- DOT’s Operation SafeDRIVE conducted more than 8,000 inspections and removed nearly 2,000 drivers and vehicles from service.
- FMCSA emphasized the campaign’s focus on unsafe behaviors, qualifications and impaired driving.
- ATA supported the enforcement effort, saying consistent application of safety laws improves highway safety.
Nearly 2,000 commercial drivers and vehicles were removed from service by the Department of Transportation as part of a highway safety initiative conducted in January.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy applauded officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as well as state DOTs from more than two dozen states for carrying out the SafeDRIVE campaign. Key stakeholders, such as American Trucking Associations, endorsed the agencies’ start-of-the-year campaign.
“Operation SafeDRIVE shows what happens when we work together with our law enforcement partners to pull unqualified drivers and vehicles off American roads,” Duffy said Feb. 6, with DOT describing the initiative as “a high-visibility, multistate enforcement and education effort focused on reducing dangerous driving behaviors, ensuring drivers are properly qualified, and addressing unsafe drivers and vehicles on the nation’s roadways.”…