ROADCHECK IS LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY.
If you missed CCJ's AMA with CVSA Inspection Specialist Jeremy Disbrow, click below to receive a recorded version. We received almost 300 questions and this 60 minutes could be a powerful tool in getting and keeping your trucks compliant.
CCJ, in partnership with Bestpass, hosted an one-hour webinar Wednesday, featuring Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA) Roadside Inspection Specialist Jeremy Disbrow. Much of Disbrow's 25 years of experience is focused on commercial motor vehicle safety, enforcement, outreach and training, and over the course of Wednesday's 60 minute webinar Disbrow fielded nearly 300 questions submitted by members of the trucking community, providing an instructional how-to on passing a commercial vehicle roadside inspection.
If you missed the webinar but still want the information, you can click here to sign up and have a recording of the event sent to you.
CVSA's North American Roadcheck inspection spree is May 14-16. The focus of this year's campaign are tractor protection controls in the air system and alcohol and controlled substance possession, but inspectors will also be on the top lookout of common violations like brake and tire wear issues, and hours of service, among many others and history suggests that tire issues will park plenty of rigs.
"The most common is obvious, probably, but it's tread depth," Disbrow said. "So, on the steer axle, it has to be at least four-thirty-seconds. That's the minimum. And on all other axles, it has to be at least two-thirty-seconds, and that's where we tend to find most of the violations. I'll tell you from an enforcement standpoint, when I was a Trooper, I spent half the summer dragging tire tread out of the road because recaps start coming off and peeling off. So that's another one that we see a lot, is that tread peeling off on a retread. And quite frankly, it's not fun for a Trooper having to play leapfrog in the road to get it, and it causes a lot of damage and a lot of collisions, that's for sure. So keep an eye on those, but that's really the big ones that I see with tires."
