CVE Within State DOT's?

[TheArkansasRoadgeek]

CVE - Commercial Vehicle Enforcement

Do you know if your state has a branch in it's transportation agency that deals with commercial vehicles (not at all associated with state police)? Or; is it just an Arkansas thing since 1929?

AHP - ArDOT
AHP - Wikipedia

[Rothman]

NYSDOT has a unit dedicated to commercial vehicle enforcement policy.

I would imagine most DOTs do.

[MNHighwayMan]

Iowa has one. There was even a little controversy about them a couple years ago doing speeding patrol and issuing illegal speeding tickets.

[SP Cook]

In WV, commercial vehicle permitting is under the DOT-DMV.  Enforcement is under the Public Service Commission, which the main function of that agency is to regulate utilities.  It has a full set of its own cops who do have to go to cop school and have primary jurisdiction and can run radar, but only for commercial vehicles.  The state police have no role in commercial vehicle enforcement. 

[hbelkins]

Kentucky's CVE is now a branch of the Kentucky State Police. KYTC has nothing to do with it. Vehicles are tannish-brown (similar to a Tennessee state police cruiser) as was traditional when it was known as Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement, but the logo is now KSP and the vehicle enforcement officers have full arrest and patrol power. You'll see them doing random taxing on passenger vehicles more often than you'll see them have a truck pulled over.

[TheArkansasRoadgeek]

Kentucky's CVE is now a branch of the Kentucky State Police. KYTC has nothing to do with it. Vehicles are tannish-brown (similar to a Tennessee state police cruiser) as was traditional when it was known as Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement, but the logo is now KSP and the vehicle enforcement officers have full arrest and patrol power. You'll see them doing random taxing on passenger vehicles more often than you'll see them have a truck pulled over.

According to the Wiki link AHP went through some swapping over the years.

[slorydn1]

North Carolina used to have a separate agency (NCDMV Enforcement) until the early 2000's that handled commercial vehicle enforcement. They ended up being merged with the Highway Patrol in a cost cutting (and anti-corruption) move. Their uniform shirts were light blue color (a bit darker than Carolina blue though) and they wore the same "Smoky" hats that troopers wear, and I seem to remember that their paint scheme was similar to the SHP paint scheme of the time but they were light blue in the parts of the car where troopers were light gray, and they had DMV ENFORCEMENT decals on both front fenders of their cars.

They were feared, too. Even the state troopers didn't like them much, DMV officers all thought they were God's gift to law enforcement.