Certified commercial motor vehicle inspectors conducted nearly 55,000 inspections during this year’s three-day International Roadcheck inspection, leading to 10,350 commercial motor vehicles (19%) and 3,184 drivers (5.8%) being placed out of service, CVSA reported Tuesday.
CVSA’s International Roadcheck has been improving road safety since 1988. Over its history, inspectors have conducted more than 1.8 million roadside inspections. For this year’s initiative, approximately 13 vehicles per minute were inspected throughout North America, CVSA reports.
When an inspection is conducted during Roadcheck and a vehicle or vehicle combination does not have any critical vehicle inspection item violations, an inspector will place a CVSA decal on the vehicle and/or combination.
During this year’s event, inspectors affixed 17,680 CVSA decals, indicating those vehicles passed an eligible comprehensive safety inspection with zero critical mechanical or out-of-service violations. This sticker signals to law enforcement officers, motor carriers, drivers and the public that the vehicle is in safe operating condition.
Among vehicles sidelined, CVSA reports the top out-of-service violation in North America was for brake systems. Inspectors identified 3,379 out-of-service brake system violations, 24.3% of all vehicle out-of-service violations. In addition, the third most-cited (2,072) vehicle out-of-service violation was for 20% defective brakes, which is when 20% or more of the vehicle’s (or combination of vehicles) brakes have an out-of-service condition. Combined, CVSA says there were 5,451 brake-related out-of-service violations (brake systems and 20% defective brakes), accounting for 39.1% of out-of-service vehicle violations.
In total, inspectors found 11,952 vehicle out-of-service violations in the U.S., 1,923 in Canada and 49 in Mexico, CVSA says.
