Enforcement

Indiana inspectors logged 9,441 violations in a 30-day stretch — 589 drivers and 683 vehicles sidelined

The figures, released Oct. 5, cover 4,789 inspections from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15: speeding led with 1,051 violations, and 50 citations were tied to English-language proficiency rules.

By CDLWire · Published October 6, 2026

Summarized from TheTrucker.com.

A commercial vehicle enforcement officer inspecting a semi truck at a roadside stop, patrol SUV behind

Indiana State Police commercial vehicle enforcement officers found 9,441 violations across nearly 4,800 inspections in a single month, placing 589 drivers and 683 vehicles out of service, according to TheTrucker.com on Oct. 5.

The figures, released by the Indiana State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division, cover 4,789 commercial vehicle inspections conducted Aug. 15 through Sept. 15. Officers logged 1,632 traffic enforcement violations in the same stretch, including 1,051 for speeding and 267 for failure to obey a traffic control device, plus 267 overweight and 31 oversize violations. Fifty violations were tied to the federal English-language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers.

The same period also saw a Labor Day human-trafficking awareness campaign, Aug. 31 through Sept. 5, run with commercial vehicle enforcement agencies in Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio — plus weigh-station bypass enforcement details with FMCSA and federal law enforcement at the Terre Haute weigh station on eastbound I-70 near the Illinois line and at West Harrison on westbound I-74 near the Ohio line.