The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and its members across the United States, Canada and Mexico on Tuesday-Thursday, June 5-7, enforced compliance with commercial vehicle safety regulations and removed high-risk carriers from the roads. This year, Roadcheck placed specific attention on two areas: enforcing compliance with hours-of-service regulations and educating drivers and fleets about preventing driver fatigue; and, checking brake system operations and brake adjustment.
“Consistently, every year we are seeing hours-of-service logbook violations leading by an overwhelming percentage of all driver violations cited – a total of 52.5 percent of all driver out-of-service violations,” said David Palmer, CVSA president. “Hours-of-service rules are designed to reduce driver fatigue, which can be a contributing factor in many large truck and bus crashes. Enforcement of hours-of-service limits is essential to ensuring compliance and combating driver fatigue.”
To do this, law enforcement during Roadcheck emphasized checking driver logbooks and underscoring to drivers the importance of maintaining their logbooks, taking breaks, preventing fatigue and driving without distractions. CVSA members also conducted Level I inspections and recorded results for later comparison with past years’ results.
“For 25 years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has joined forces with CVSA to support the world’s largest targeted inspection and enforcement effort aimed at commercial vehicles and their drivers,” said FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro. “Trucking is a difficult job, and a big rig can be deadly when a driver is tired and overworked. We want to prevent fatigue-related crashes and save lives by enforcing the hours-of-service requirements.”
Several jurisdictions also used Roadcheck as an opportunity to address a trend of poor vehicle maintenance and noncompliance with driver hours of service in oilfield and natural gas hydraulic fracturing operations, which have increased in number because of higher oil and gas prices and customer demand. These operations require significant commercial vehicle support, often in areas unaccustomed to heavy truck traffic. CVSA said many of these vehicles have been found to be poorly maintained, and drivers are oftentimes in violation of the legal hours-of-service limits.
Results from Roadcheck 2012 will be announced Aug. 7 at CVSA’s North American Inspectors Championship in Minneapolis.
Ive always prided myself on passing ANY Inspection any time its given, in 21 years of OTR Drivinf Ive only fell to one Level One Inspection, I keep my rigs clean, the tires in great shape, my brakes never squeal or sound gritty,you wont find oil leaking out of hubs or anywhere else, I think that these ROADCHECKS catch the guys who need to be caught, those that arent doing a log or those that feel they can just make up what they want. This year I went thru three inspection stations and was waved, or greenlighted each time, once with a smile and wave, all these LEOs arent bad folks, there doing there job to keep us safe, we should do our jobs to keep there familys safe.
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LikeThe last two days I have pulled in for inspection and been waved on past the inspectors. I do not know if it was who I am leased to or because I keep my truck looking as good as an oldie can look. I like to think I would have passed if inspected . My logs were neat and complete and I think mechanically the truck would pass with out a problem. This is just west of KC KS on I-70 WB 415 MM at the inspection station and staging area.
I did notice that on both nights it appeared to be certain carriers targeted. Tankers and one or two of the fly by night carriers.
The inspectors were using head lights and flash lights instead of the large flood lights usually used.
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LikeI have yet to understand how people intelligent enough to be a LEO don't know the difference between a mistake and a falsification on a log book. An exceptionally small number of do uLEO's understand. To those I say Thank you for your understanding and professionalism.
. Not all drivers have the same education nor math skills or penmanship skills. Some of us just make a mistake now and again and have no intention of falsifying a log. Yet we get treated like a criminal and receive the ticket and get the points and our job and livelihood is jeopardized due to it.
I agree that some drivers do get very creative and some never get caught. The majority of us drivers try to run as legal as we can. None of us like getting tickets.
But due to the actions of a few, the rest of us get treated like we are the bad guys.
We do not police our own ranks so when someone else does it we don't like it. Wake up drivers. it is not too late to fix it.
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