Welcome To Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement

The mission of Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement is to encourage and promote a safe driving environment through education and safety awareness while enforcing State and Federal laws and regulations, placing special emphasis on commercial vehicles.

Welcome to the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet's Department of Vehicle Enforcement website, a tool to learn more about Kentucky's commercial vehicle law enforcement agency.

The Department is staffed with both sworn law enforcement officers, regulatory weight and safety inspectors, and civilian staff. When new officers are employed they receive 18 weeks of training at the Department of Criminal Justice Training unless they have already completed this training at an earlier date. Officers and Inspectors also receive an initial 4 weeks of concentrated commercial vehicle law training.

As you navigate through the various sections of our website, you will find information on many of our programs. You can learn more about trucking regulations, compliance reviews, job opportunities, filing a complaint against unsafe commercial motor carriers and information on the Department's national accreditation by CALEA. Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) a voluntary accreditation for law enforcement agencies based on a body of standards internationally accepted by the law enforcement community. 

As you will see, our primary mission is to encourage and promote a safe environment through education and safety awareness while enforcing State and Federal laws and regulations, placing special emphasis on commercial vehicles.  This mission is achieved through a combined effort of uniformed officers, special operations officers, canine officers and inspectors who work cooperatively with the Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) industry, other state and local agencies and Kentucky's citizens. Our main objective is to ensure that the motoring public is safe and that CMV's are in compliance with both state and federal laws.

If the Department of Vehicle Enforcement can be of assistance in any way, please feel free to contact us at KVE's headquarters by mail at 125 Holmes Street, Frankfort, KY 40601; by phone at (502) 564-3276; or by email at KVEinformation@ky.gov

• Agency has received elite accreditation
  Monday, February 18, 2008
  The Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement is the only agency in the state solely dedicated to monitoring and enforcing commercial vehicle regulations and highway safety laws. Recently it became the only agency of its kind in the country to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies -- the highest level of public safety accreditation in the world.
• Local officer is driven to safety
  Monday, February 18, 2008
  Deciding to become an officer for the Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement was not a difficult decision for Officer Wesley Miller. Five years ago, Miller's mother was killed by a commercial truck on Dead Man's Curve, a sharp bend along U.S. 431 just south of Belton.
• Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement Awarded National Accreditation
  Tuesday, November 20, 2007
  (FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement (KVE) today received a coveted law enforcement accreditation after more than a year of intense reviews and grading. The Commission on Law Enforcement Accreditation (CALEA) bestowed the honor at a meeting of their commissioners in Colorado Springs, Colorado.