Every day, tens of thousands of commercial trucks share American roads with ordinary drivers who trust, without knowing it, that someone in government has checked the vehicle bearing down on them. A CBS News investigation reveals that trust is increasingly misplaced: roadside inspections of commercial trucks have declined sharply across many states, and more than 2,000 people have died since 2019 in crashes involving licensed trucking companies that had never once been pulled over and examined before the collision. It is a story not of rogue operators but of a regulatory system that issues per
2,000+ killed in crashes by uninspected trucking firms as roadside checks plummet
Over 2,000 people have been killed since 2019 in accidents involving licensed trucking companies that had no roadside inspection on record before the crash.