Lebanon County Regional Police Department provides the citizens, businesses and travelers within our jurisdictions piece of mind, knowing that the commercial motor vehicles are routinely inspected for safety concerns.  The goal of these inspections is compliance with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations to reduce accidents, especially fatal accidents, involving commercial motor vehicles.  When critical defects are found during an inspection, the vehicle is placed Out-Of-Service.  We also check the drivers to ensure they are properly licensed, and most importantly, properly rested in accordance with the Federal Regulations.  Sometimes we place the driver Out-Of-Service until they get the proper rest or for other reasons.  These inspections are very time intensive and involve checking several databases to ensure compliance, analyzing the driver's logbook (to ensure they are properly rested), crawling under the vehicles and inspecting various components for defects, among other tasks.

During 2025, LCRPD conducted a total of 71 inspections on commercial vehicles, 9 of which were hauling hazardous materials.  68 inspections involved Carriers from the United States and 3 involved carriers from Canada.  Only 16 inspections involved single unit trucks, the remainder involved trailers. A total of 228 violations were found.   Vehicle violations ranged from minor things such as inoperable lights, cracked windshield, missing fire extinguisher, and improper markings on the truck to the serious or hazardous violations such as inoperable brakes, the truck was unable to maintain air pressure (which controls the brakes, no air = no braking), leaking fuel, leaking hazardous materials, improper load securement, and many more.  Some of the driver violations found were: expired medical exams, not performing a pre-trip inspection, downgraded commercial driver's license, suspended commercial driver's license, and even possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, along with several more.

Now for the scary part... 44% of the vehicles inspected were placed Out-Of-Service (OOS) with a total of 30 OOS violations and 14% of the drivers were placed Out-Of-Service with 14 OOS violations.  Also, 2 carriers (the trucking company) were found to be Out-Of-Service.  

We also found 2 trucks that had fraudulent/ counterfeit Pennsylvania inspection stickers, one driver was found to be in the U.S.A. illegally and was detained by I.C.E. and one driver was found to be on the terror watchlist.