The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance reported at the end of July that its May International Roadcheck found 81% of commercial motor vehicles and 94.5% of professional drivers inspected did not have any out-of-service violations and were allowed to safely complete their runs.
This compares to the 2022 Roadcheck event where 77.2% of the vehicles and 93.6% of the drivers inspected were found not to have out-of-service violations.
The 72-hour roadside truck and bus vehicle and driver inspection and enforcement initiative takes place each year in Mexico, Canada and the United States and includes detailed reviews of adherence to the three nations’ federal equipment and driving regulations.
Commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) without any critical vehicle inspection violations are eligible to receive a CVSA decal. During this year’s Roadcheck, decals were applied to 14,032 power units, 5,814 trailers and 305 buses, for a total of 20,151 decals throughout North America.
Conversely, CVSA inspectors discovered at least one out-of-service violation on 19% of the vehicles inspected and, in turn, removed those 11,270 CMVs from roadways until the out-of-service (OOS) violations were corrected. There were 17,479 vehicle out-of-service violations in total.
In the U.S., inspectors also restricted 5.5% (3,256) of the commercial motor vehicle drivers inspected from operating their vehicles who were found to have at least one out-of-service driver violation, as identified under the CVSA’s North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria.
Those drivers were restricted from commercial travel until their out-of-service violations were addressed. There were 5,280 driver out-of-service violations handed out.