According to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, this year’s Brake Safety Week saw 12% of the 43,565 commercial motor vehicles inspected placed out of service for brake-related violations.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) has announced that Brake Safety Week will proceed as scheduled, August 23-29.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s 2020 Operation Safe Driver Week will go on as scheduled, July 12-18, focusing on what CVSA called an "alarming trend of increased speeding on our roadways during the pandemic."
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's International Roadcheck will take place May 5-7 and focus on truck driver violations.
Time is almost finally up: All motor carriers and truck drivers subject to the electronic logging device rule must use an electronic logging device starting on Dec. 17. Don't expect any "soft enforcement."
While the vast majority of trucks inspected during CVSA's Brake Safety Week passed roadside inspections, over 4,600 vehicles were placed out of service for critical brake-related violations.
Failure to wear a seat belt was the second most commonly cited safety violation for both commercial vehicles and passenger cars during CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver Week last July.
More than 12,000 vehicles were placed out of service due to critical inspection violations during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s International Roadcheck in June.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has urged Congress to fund a new commercial vehicle crash causation study to be conducted by the FMCSA, updating the last study that was conducted in 2001.
More than 1,600 commercial vehicles were placed out of service for brake-related violations during an unannounced inspection blitz conducted by the CVSA's law enforcement members in the U.S. and Canada.