State troopers are targeting commercial vehicles during October as part of "Operation Good Guys," their six-month project for public safety.
The project started in July with a crackdown on speeders, as troopers used such enforcement methods as posting an officer with a radar gun behind a hay wagon on Route 140 near Westminster.
This month's chapter of the project is called "Drive to Survive." Only a small portion of Maryland's designated truck route system passes through Carroll County, but some highways within the county -- including Interstate 70 -- carry a large volume of commercial traffic daily, police said.