I hate to put it this way, but yes and no.
It's yes, in that the inspections they're referring to weren't random. They were actually targeted, so they saw trucks coming and said, “Oh, that one comes over, that one goes past, that one comes over,” and away you go.
The bigger question for me, though—and I think this goes back to our discussion about enforcement—is that British Columbia has a commercial vehicle inspection program that requires every vehicle to be inspected twice a year, every six months. Vehicles are showing up, like dump trucks with rotted-through bottoms and broken steering linkages. These things don't happen in two, three or four weeks or in four months. These things take years to happen, and yet these vehicles are somehow passing inspections a matter of weeks or months before.
They're not being inspected. It's another scam. We have this pernicious culture of cheating that we need to get at. This is where it starts, and it's really important work.
