137 Trucks Taken Out of Service as Part of Enforcement Effort

PA State Troopers, Municipal Officers Check Vehicles on Non-Interstate Roads

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – State and municipal police personnel placed 137 trucks out of service and issued 495 traffic citations during a one-day enforcement effort that focused on inspecting commercial vehicles on rural roads and non-interstate highways in Pennsylvania, State Police Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski reported today.

The Commercial Motor Vehicle Commonwealth Rural Roads and State Highways detail, or C.R.A.S.H., was conducted Sept. 30 by state police motor carrier enforcement teams in association with specially trained municipal police officers from 11 other agencies.

Pawlowski said 1,281 commercial vehicles were inspected. In addition to placing vehicles out of service and issuing traffic citations, officers handed out 1,405 written warnings for vehicle and driver violations and placed 31 drivers out of service.

“Federal statistics show that more than 50 percent of commercial motor vehicle crashes and fatalities in Pennsylvania occur in rural areas and on non-interstate highways,” Pawlowski said. “Our goal is to make all of our roads safer.”

Cooperating with state police in the effort were police departments from Bensalem Township, Bucks County; State College Borough and Ferguson Township, Centre County; East Hempfield and Manheim townships in Lancaster County; Newberry Township, York County; Pen Argyl Borough and Palmer Township, Northampton County; Scranton, Lackawanna County; Washington Township, Franklin County; and Port Authority Police, Allegheny County.

For more information, visit www.psp.state.pa.us or call 717-346-7347

Media contacts: Lt. Myra A. Taylor or Jack J. Lewis, 717-783-5556

Editor’s Note: Below is a breakdown, by state police troop area, of the number of vehicles inspected; number placed out of service; and citations issued by state police during the one-day program:

• Troop A (Cambria, Indiana, Somerset and Westmoreland counties), 120 vehicles inspected; four vehicles place out of service; 19 citations;
• Troop B (Allegheny, Fayette, Greene and Washington counties), 122 vehicles inspected; six vehicles place out of service; 27 citations;
• Troop C (Clarion, Clearfield, Forest, Elk, Jefferson and McKean counties), 127 vehicles inspected; 15 vehicles place out of service; 38 citations;
• Troop D (Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties), 87 vehicles inspected; four vehicles placed out of service; 28 citations;
• Troop E (Crawford, Erie, Venango and Warren counties), 95 vehicles inspected; 17 vehicles placed out of service; 65 citations;
• Troop F (Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Snyder, Union and Tioga counties), 91 vehicles inspected; 13 vehicles placed out of service; 46 citations;
• Troop G (Bedford, Blair, Centre, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata and Mifflin counties), 106 vehicles inspected; eight vehicles placed out of service; 31 citations;
• Troop H (Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Perry and York counties), 101 vehicles inspected; 11 vehicles placed out of service; 32 citations;
• Troop J (Chester and Lancaster counties), 36 vehicles inspected; seven vehicles placed out of service; 28 citations;
• Troop K (Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties), 73 vehicles inspected; six vehicles placed out of service; 37 citations;
• Troop L (Berks, Lebanon and Schuylkill counties), 62 vehicles inspected; seven vehicles placed out of service; 22 citations;
• Troop M (Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton counties), 68 vehicles inspected; 10 vehicles placed out of service; 23 citations;
• Troop N (Carbon, Columbia, Monroe and part of Luzerne counties), 34 vehicles inspected; two vehicles placed out of service; two citations;
• Troop P (Bradford, Sullivan, Wyoming and part of Luzerne counties), 47 inspections; seven vehicles placed out of service; 35 citations;
• Troop R (Lackawanna, Pike, Susquehanna and Wayne counties), 60 vehicles inspected; 11 vehicles placed out of service; 21 citations issued.
  

SOURCE Pennsylvania State Police Department