More than 40,000 commercial motor vehicle inspections were conducted May 4-6 for International Roadcheck, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) annual high-volume, high-visibility inspection and enforcement initiative.
Approximately 83.5 percent of the commercial motor vehicles examined had no out-of-service (OOS) violations. However, inspectors had to remove 6710 commercial motor vehicles and 2080 drivers from roadways — a 16.5 percent vehicle and 5.3 percent driver OOS rate — over that three-day period after the discovery of OOS violations during inspections.
CVSA-certified inspectors at weigh stations, inspection stations, roadside, and designated inspection sites in Canada, Mexico, and the United States inspected commercial trucks and combinations, cargo tank hazardous materials/dangerous goods (HM/DG) trucks and combinations, noncargo tank HM/DG trucks and combinations, and motorcoaches/buses during International Roadcheck.
Inspectors primarily conducted the North American Standard Level I Inspection, a 37-step inspection process that involves thorough inspection of the vehicle (including underneath the vehicle) and the driver. Inspectors performed 23,135 Level I Inspections and removed 5048 vehicles (21.8 percent) and 1200 drivers (5.2 percent) from roadways due to the discovery of critical vehicle or driver inspection item violations as identified in the CVSA North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria.
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