California Gov. Gray Davis' proposed budget calls for adding 150 more California Highway Patrol officers to truck inspection stations around the state, making them all permanently round-the-clock operations.
The move is in response to concerns about trucks being hijacked and used as weapons of mass destruction by terrorists in the wake of Sept. 11. Before Sept. 11, most of the CHP's truck inspection stations were open only part of the day, five days a week. After the attacks, they went to round-the-clock operations using overtime and borrowing officers from other departments.
At the Cordelia weigh station off of Interstate 40, the staff has been handling 40 percent more truck traffic since it began seven-day-a-week inspections.
The move is in response to concerns about trucks being hijacked and used as weapons of mass destruction by terrorists in the wake of Sept. 11. Before Sept. 11, most of the CHP's truck inspection stations were open only part of the day, five days a week. After the attacks, they went to round-the-clock operations using overtime and borrowing officers from other departments.
At the Cordelia weigh station off of Interstate 40, the staff has been handling 40 percent more truck traffic since it began seven-day-a-week inspections.
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