Roadcheck 2011, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s 72-hour safety blitz, is scheduled for June 7-9, 2011.
CVSA sponsors Roadcheck with participation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico).
Roadcheck is the largest targeted enforcement program on commercial vehicles in the world, with approximately 14 trucks or buses being inspected, on average, every minute from Canada to Mexico during a 72-hour period.
Each year, approximately 10,000 CVSA-certified local, state, provincial and federal inspectors at 1,500 locations across North America perform the truck and bus inspections.
During the 2010 Roadcheck event, CMV enforcement conducted 65,327 inspections across the U.S. Of those, almost 49,000 were Level 1. Vehicle compliance rates were about 80 percent and drivers had a 95.6 percent pass rate. Driver compliance rates in 2009 set a record at 95.7 percent.
The primary reasons cited by inspectors for placing vehicles and drivers out of service continue to be brakes and logbooks, respectively.
CVSA is made up of local, state, provincial, territorial and federal motor-carrier safety officials and industry representatives in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Since its inception in 1988, the roadside inspections conducted during Roadcheck have numbered more than 1 million. Learn more about the program at cvsa.org.
Top Out of Service Violations-
Hours of Service Vilolations and Brake Problems of service violations and brake problems were the top violations found during the 2007 Roadcheck. Between vehicle problems, and driver problems, approximately 49% of the inspections showed either the vehicle or the driver should not be on the road. JJ Keller reported:
A total of 62,370 inspections (video) were conducted during the 72-hour Roadcheck 2007 event from June 5–7, 2007. The following out-of-service (O-O-S) statistics emerged for drivers and vehicles:
| Driver O-O-S Violations | ||
| Violation | Number | Percentage |
| HOS- Hours Of Service | 3,027 | 65.9% |
| False Logs | 522 | 11.4% |
| Suspended | 177 | 3.9% |
| Driver Qualification | 166 | 3.6% |
| Endorsement | 120 | 2.6% |
| Expired License | 78 | 1.7% |
| Drugs/Alcohol | 71 | 1.5% |
| Age | 15 | 0.3% |
| Revoked License | 12 | 0.3% |
| Withdrawn License | 11 | 0.2% |
| Cancelled License | 9 | 0.2% |
| Other | 607 | 13.2% |
| TOTAL | 4,815 | |
| Vehicle O-O-S Violations | ||
| Violation | Number | Percentage |
| Brake Adjustment | 6,954 | 27.7% |
| Brake System leaks, hoses ,fittings, loose & damaged parts etc. | 6,566 | 26.2% |
| Lights | 3,521 | 14.0% |
| Loading (securement) | 2,610 | 10.4% |
| Tires and wheels | 2,286 | 9.1% |
| Suspension | 1,159 | 4.6% |
| Steering | 533 | 2.1% |
| Frame | 345 | 1.4% |
| Hazardous materials | 261 | 1.0% |
| Coupling device | 178 | 0.7% |
| Fuel system | 166 | 0.7% |
| Exhaust | 48 | 0.2% |
| Other | 924 | 3.7% |
| TOTAL | 25,551 | |
The number of U.S. state inspections totaled 53,451 (85.70%); Canadian inspections totaled 7,274 (11.66%); U.S. FMCSA inspections totaled 1,506 (2.41%); and Mexican inspections totaled 139 (0.22%).
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