More than 39,000 commercial vehicles were inspected as part of a major human trafficking awareness effort recently.
Fifty-six jurisdictions throughout North America participated in the Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) annual human trafficking education, outreach, prevention and awareness effort focused on the commercial motor vehicle transportation community.
During the initiative:
- 9,375 Level I Inspections, 14,376 Level II Inspections and 15,067 Level III inspections were conducted
- 1,035 commercial motor vehicles with passengers were inspected, 1,671 authorized passengers were documented and 42 unauthorized passengers were identified.
For this initiative, law enforcement agencies and the motor carrier industry in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. educated commercial motor vehicle drivers, large- and small-fleet safety managers, owner-operators, and members of the public about recognizing human trafficking indicators and reporting suspected human trafficking incidents.
The CVSA said, commercial motor vehicle drivers and inspectors are uniquely positioned to serve as frontline identifiers of human trafficking because of the nature and scope of their work.
