---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 40"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "40"
heading: "Commercial motor vehicles required to stop for inspections"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/40"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 2 — Aircraft and Motor Vehicles"
---

# §40. Commercial motor vehicles required to stop for inspections

- (a) A driver of a commercial [motor vehicle](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-6) (as defined in [section 31132 of title 49](/usc/49/31132.md)) shall stop and submit to inspection of the vehicle, driver, cargo, and required records when directed to do so by an authorized [employee](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of the [Department](/usc/18/6.md) of Transportation, at or in the vicinity of an inspection site. The driver shall not leave the inspection site until authorized to do so by an authorized [employee](/usc/18/202.md?p=c).
- (b) A driver of a commercial [motor vehicle](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-6), as defined in [subsection (a)](#a), who knowingly fails to stop for inspection when directed to do so by an authorized [employee](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) of the Administration at or in the vicinity of an inspection site, or leaves the inspection site without authorization, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4143(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1747, § 39; renumbered § 40, Pub. L. 110–244, title III, § 301(j), June 6, 2008, 122 Stat. 1616.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–244 renumbered section 39 of this title, relating to inspection of commercial vehicles, as this section.