CVSA Roadcheck 2007 Results are in!
This year’s CVSA Roadcheck took place June 5-7th. The numbers are in, and the numbers cast truckers in a bad light.
In all, 708 Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) inspectors performed 62,370 vehicle inspections in 1,449 locations around the country. 6.2 percent of non-hazmat drivers were placed out of service. 3.5 percent of hazmat drivers were placed out of service. 21.5 percent of non-hazmat vehicles were placed out of service. 17.7 percent of hazmat vehicles were placed out of service. The numbers of violations were up from last year. Last years numbers were up from the year before. Let’s hope the trend doesn’t continue next year.
Most drivers who were placed out of service had log book violations- mainly falsification. Others were driving while disqualified. And still others were driving while under suspension.
Most vehicles were placed out of service for brake defects. Others were placed out of service for problems with their lights, unsecured loads and bad tires or wheels.
To read more about the Roadcheck 2007 Results Click Here
30th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
“Others failed the qualification standards for CDL drivers”…….
Can you elaborate on this?
1st, 2007 at 10:03 am
Mississippi, thanks for the comment. We changed the wording in the article above to the wording in the CVSA Roadcheck Results link: “operating while disqualified.” A search of the FMCSA website (www.fmcsa.dot.gov) for this term brings up documents which use the term to mean that the driver doesn’t have a valid CDL. Either that driver had his license suspended or revoked, never had a CDL in the first place, didn’t have his CDL on him at the time of the inspection, or needed an endorsement to haul the load he had (and didn’t have that endorsement i.e. pulling doubles without a doubles endorsement).