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Indiana Cuts 42 Jobs From Motor Carrier Division
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The state has eliminated 42 inspectors from the Indiana State Police Motor Carrier Division, half the division's workforce.
The division is responsible for inspecting large trucks and school buses. The cost-cutting move was made because of the state's financial trouble, 6News' Rick Hightower reported.
"Every agency is having to take steps to shore up their budgets," said Indiana State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten. "We're going to do everything in our power to reassign state police personnel to fill in where those positions have been reduced."
Forty-one motor carrier inspectors kept their jobs. The last day of work for those who were let go is Dec. 31.
The civilian force, in which employees don't carry weapons and are strictly limited to enforcement of motor carrier laws, has been decimated within the last two decades, said Larry Hood, of Logansport, who learned he will be laid off.
"The state's in tough times," Hood said. "When I first hired on, there were 160 motor carriers."
The layoffs were emotional for workers who invested many years in their jobs, such as Darlene Hauck.
"I've been here 20 years," Hauck said. "They chose 42 of us to get it and 42 to stay."
"This is not what anybody wanted to see happen," Bursten said. "There is a lot of thought and feeling for those people."
State Cuts 42 Jobs From Motor Carrier Division - Indiana News Story - WRTV Indianapolis
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With a lot less truckers on the road it seems Indiana doesn't need as many Motor Carrier Enforcement officers.
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