| Perhaps you are unaware of the American Trucking | | | | ramped up its Border Checks to prevent smuggling of |
| Association's Mobile Watch Program. The strategy | | | | weapons, illegal aliens, narcotics or contraband from |
| enlists truck drivers and transportation companies to | | | | entering America. Stopping a Truck Bomb is the goal |
| keep a watchful eye out for bad guys, evil doers and | | | | and it is taken seriously at our borders and by |
| international terrorists. And guess what? It is working. | | | | implementing stringent US Port Security to track Truck |
| But that is not all the Trucking Industry is doing to | | | | Cargo Trailers. |
| protect our nation, we now have Satellite Shut off | | | | Communication Systems |
| Systems for tanker trucks. If a truck is hijacked then | | | | Thanks to the use of Radios and Transponders, along |
| the truck is shut down in route, preventing disaster and | | | | with Modern GPS the authorities are using a |
| that truck is stopped and cannot be used as a truck | | | | synergistic approach to policing our Highways and |
| bomb. The Department of Transportation has also | | | | protecting our citizens. Truck Drivers are also enjoying |
| instituted additional checks before issuing Hazardous | | | | the use of modern communication systems to stay in |
| Materials CDLs. | | | | touch with family and business contacts using Truck |
| There are also now more technologies being put in at | | | | Stops and WiFi. |
| Truck Scales such as high-tech sensors. The US has | | | | |