Oklahoma, West Virginia and South Carolina follow Texas in that category.
California ranks as the toughest inspection and enforcement state, followed by Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Texas also ranked second-weakest in last year's rankings. This despite the 142,264 truck inspections Department of Public Safety troopers did in 2000.
Those checks found 672,679 violations, and troopers immediately declared 27,698 trucks and 10,682 drivers unfit for the road.
A DPS spokeswoman, saying the agency hadn't seen the survey, declined to comment on the rankings.
The truckers should be happy about another big gap in Texas DPS traffic law enforcement and that is their absolutely unacceptable shying away from the strict enforcement of the speed laws on trucks in Texas especially on the Interstates.
There seems to be a large lack of "controlling legal authority" in this area in Texas.
LOL..... Don't want them clogging up the IH traveling along at 65 MPH don'tcha see..... Gosh they'd get run over or have traffic stacked up for miles....
It's gonna get interesting around the Houston area (8 counties) where they are reducing the speed limit to 55 mph.