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Last year Texas carried out 534,304 truck inspections. It is a staggering number of inspections and a significant hike from business as usual, as figures in past years ran much lower. Why the enormous increase in truck inspections? The answer appears to be simple: oilfield operations.<\/p>\n

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS), the state has an unenviable record of coming in 5th place for truck fatality crashes and 4th for the sheer number of truck inspections. The numbers cited by the TDPS reveal there were roughly 10.3 inspections for every lane-mile on Interstate highways in 2013, a jump of nearly 20 percent over inspections in 2011 of 8.8 per lane-mile.<\/p>\n

In the Eagle Ford Shale area, and in numerous other surrounding locations, there are twisted interconnected interstate highways that boast some of the highest speed limits in the nation. An ever increasing number of big rigs servicing the oilfields (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year Texas carried out 534,304 truck inspections. It is a staggering number of inspections and a significant hike from business as usual, as figures in past years ran much lower. Why the enormous increase in truck inspections? The answer…<\/span><\/p>\n

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