The California Highway Patrol plans to nearly double its fleet of specially marked patrol cars used to target unsafe trucks.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the CHP is buying 60 new white Camaros, which should be on the road by January. The Camaros will join 64 white Ford Crown Victoria sedans already cruising the highways in search of unsafe trucks. But truckers have learned to spot them, and warn others of CB of lurking “snow bears.” The Crown Victorias and the new Camaros bear the CHP logo on the doors, but not the distinctive black-and-white color scheme or lights on the top. CHP officials say the Camaros will fast and hard to spot.
The CHP also plans to ask the state Legislature for money to hire 100 new officers.
It’s all part of a truck crackdown that was prompted by a rash of truck crashes last summer. Collisions where a truck driver was to blame increased 9.5 percent between 1999 and 2000, according to the paper, with truck fatalities up 8.2 percent during the same time period.