The Motor Carrier Safety Unit is responsible for commercial motor vehicle enforcement, responding to hazardous material incidents. The unit's goal is to reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes and hazardous material incidents on Alabama's highways.
Unit personnel consist of inspectors, weight detail troopers trained to conduct truck inspections.
Unit personnel conducted vehicle inspection training for law enforcement agencies at various schools, held safety seminars for motor carriers and served on several committees of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. The number of Highway Patrol troopers not assigned to the Motor Carrier Safety Unit but trained to do truck inspections now totals 96.