FWIW, I don't know if the little baby Troopers still do this now that they have GPS so that some bean counter in HQ can micro-manage their every move, but we used to do what were called "equipment road checks". You'd pick a safe stretch of road, get a few guys together and check things like lights, signals, horn, tires, trailer brakes, safety chains, etc on every car coming down the road. You could go over a car in way less than 30 seconds and if you treated people politely and explained what you were doing most people were happy to comply. For a while we had stickers for the kiddies too IIRC. When you got too many cars backed up you'd wave them through and start over. Found a lot of unsafe stuff, a few drunks, a lot of dumb criminal type stuff and a few serious problems. That always seemed like a common sense way to do safety checks to me. But like I say, now they the kiddies on a real tight leash and they have to see the GPS moving around I'm told, or get and answer as to why they are sitting still.
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