[SS Engine Guy]

Yes saftey is, or should be, the greatest concern here. Its not. If a PUBLIC SERVANT, ie: DMV,DOT,state, local or sheriffs dept enployee wanted to find saftey violations they aren't hard to find, overweight tailers, too small a tow vehicle rating, ladders not secured on trucks, crap in the back blowing out of pickups etc, etc. I could write up all the tickets in the ticket book each and every day. I agree that alot of areas are overlooked by racers. I see it at every race I attend. Write the laws in plain English, get rid of the "grey areas" (kinda sounds like a rule book) and inforce the law. No problem with that. CDL really dosen't mean anything. I have one, had it for years. Dosen't apply to my tow vehicle in the least. When I tried to get DOT #'s, as I was pulled over and told that I had to do, the head of the DOT (in my state) told me that if every truck/trailer over a certain length and weight was pulling into weigh stations that the interstates would be closed down due to congestion at the scale houses. This BS comes around every so often when someone is put in a job and told his performance is based on revenue.
It wouldn't hurt my feelings in the least that all states require inspections of tow vehicles/trailers before you can get a plate for the trailer. And have the vehicle and trailer somehow registered together. Problem is, you couldn't find the people that knew enough about the laws that they were supposed to be enforcing to do the inspections. That would require paying more salaries instead of collecting more revenue.