Opinion ID: 161398
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Heading: Necessary to Further the Regulatory Scheme

Text: 18 While we have not squarely answered the question of whether routine safety inspections are necessary to further the regulatory scheme governing commercial carriers, two of our sister circuits have. We agree with the Fifth and Sixth Circuits that the factors justifying the warrantless inspections of commercial carriers are more compelling than those present in Burger because commercial carriers, unlike the automobile junkyards considered in Burger, pass quickly through states and out of the jurisdiction of the enforcement agencies. Dominguez-Prieto, 923 F.2d at 469; accord Fort, 248 F.3d at 481; see also Means, 94 F.3d at 1426 (It could reasonably be concluded that random truck safety inspections are necessary to further that interest.). Thus, we find that the safety inspections presently under consideration satisfy the second prong of the Burger test.