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TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway

• nextparadigms 15y ago
  As any other Governmental agency, they'll keep trying to expand and finding new reasons to get an increased budget. "Sure, we check every plane, but that's what - 5% of the travelling population? We need to check them at the subway, buses, trains, trucks and cars, too. Then we'll consider malls and Walmarts. Anything to protect the country against "terrorism"."
• driverdan 15y ago
  Misleading headline. Commercial vehicles have different standards than non-commercial vehicles. The article makes it seem that they were running standard weigh station inspections but adding a Big Brother "report your neighbor" aspect to it.
  • mindstab 15y ago
    the first picture is of an agent on his back under a truck inspecting it. Is that standard weigh station behavior? And if not, won't those kind of inspections slow everything down more?
• bediger 15y ago
  Why are they bothering to do this? They're not getting to grope beautiful women - truckers are notoriously male, and they're not getting to see shiny, blue nudes. Isn't this sort of work highly demoralizing to the average TSA "officer"?