Border states like Texas have an important enforcement role to play at our border, including ensuring truck safety and code compliance, but the state should be working in collaboration with CBP, not engaging in a new inspection model that will slow the movement of freight, and that will only further stress the country’s struggling supply chains and put even more upward pressure on consumer prices during the holiday season and amid a time of high inflation.  The BTA on Dec. 20, 2022 sent this letter urging Gov. Greg Abbott to cease his state’s duplicative and expensive commercial vehicle inspections.