1.   Although vehicle inspections are the domain of U.S. Customs agents, law officers along the border are routinely cross-trained.

2.   Because they are short-handed, DPS officials say, they leave urban vehicle inspections to city police departments.

3.   -- Want dealerships to offer vehicle safety inspections.

4.   More sophisticated vehicle inspections are a key part of the national effort to curb summertime smog, but they have provoked repeated showdowns between EPA and some states.

5.   The Federal Aviation Administration authorized airports across the nation on Sunday to ease parking bans and vehicle inspections that were imposed last month to guard against terrorist attacks.

6.   The lifting of parking bans and vehicle inspections was optional, the FAA said.

7.   The US Environmental Protection Agency has been requiring states to toughen vehicle inspections to reduce smog.

8.   But peacekeepers found and confiscated five machine guns during a vehicle inspection, said Maj. Peter Clarke, a spokesman for the NATO-led force.

9.   That includes anti-terrorism work such as bomb detection, vehicle inspections and surveillance.

10.   The old city of the capital Algiers is surrounded by anti-terrorist squads and checks of identity papers as well as vehicle inspections have been stepped up.