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Alcohol and drug use resulted in the arrests of two truckers by Washington state troopers within 48 hours at the scale house near Ridgefield on northbound  I-5. Michael Mengel was driving  an  overweight flatbed. When  a commercial  vehicle officer talked to the trucker, the officer smelled alcohol. Mengel  denied drinking,  but agreed to a  breath test. After he blew into the tester, the machine registered alcohol in  his system.

In the suspected  drug arrest, a trucker  accused of using methamphetamines while driving was caught when a commercial vehicle officer noticed the pintle hitch was open…

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