{"id":95176,"date":"2025-12-20T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/95176\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:58:13","slug":"four-hour-el-paso-truck-blitz-uncovers-60-violations-including-bad-brakes-and-disregarding-weigh-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/95176\/","title":{"rendered":"Four hour El Paso truck blitz uncovers 60 violations, including bad brakes and disregarding weigh station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotexas.gov\/assets\/Press-Releases\/Police\/2025\/12-December\/PSA-CVSA-operation-Safe-Sleigh.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police released results from multi-agency commercial vehicle inspection and enforcement effort<\/a> that took place in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>On December 10, 2025, the El Paso Police Department (EPPD) partnered with the Texas Department Of Public Safety (TXDPS) for \u201cOperation Safe Sleigh,\u201d an effort to inspect commercial vehicles to ensure compliance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) safety standards.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/601954724_1180865500893235_6476848228279444631_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128010\"  \/>EPPD<\/p>\n<p>In a four hour period, officers conducted 22 commercial vehicle inspections in the El Paso area. See below for details on the violations uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>Total Inspections: 22Total Violations: 60Total Out-Of-Service Violations: 8Brake Violations: 9Weight Violations: 9Weight Citations: 3Non-English-Speaking Driver: 2Hazmat Inspections: 2Disregard Weigh Station Citation: 6<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/603064845_1180865580893227_2889157088523968362_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128011\"  \/>EPPD<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese coordinated efforts help reduce risks, remove unsafe vehicles from the road, and protect families traveling throughout the city\u2014especially during the busy holiday season,\u201d EPPD said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/601931049_1180865444226574_4076207760747873148_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128012\"  \/>EPPD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released results from multi-agency commercial vehicle inspection and enforcement effort that took place in El Paso, Texas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-95176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}