This year’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) brake inspection blitz placed 14.2% of all inspected vehicles out of service due to problems with their brakes. Shockingly, that’s actually a good thing since at least it’s an improvement over last year’s 15.2% OOS rate.
When gearing up for safety enforcement blitzes, the CVSA will often notify the industry beforehand, using the increased press to raise awareness in general and to get carriers whipped into shape. It also however has the unintended consequence of keeping drivers who know their vehicles won’t pass an inspection off the road.
So, to conduct an enforcement blitz that give the CVSA and accurate idea of what percentage of vehicles actually have issues, sometimes they need to do a blitz without letting anyone know first.
The results this year – while better than last year – were not great. Of the 50,000 inspections that were carried out throughout the U.S. and Canada, 14.2% of all vehicles were placed out of service due to brake issues. 7.7% of the OOS orders were because of brake component violations.
Another extremely common violation was due to brakes not being properly adjusted. According to the CVSA, brakes with manual adjusters were 2.5 times as likely to be improperly adjusted as those with automatic brake adjusters.
The CVSA’s next brake event (that we know of anyway) will be a week-long event running from September 6th through the 12th.
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Source: overdrive, gobytrucknews
BASEBALLbat says
Need a bigger tax on other vehicles on the road so there will be less, and then the trucks wont be wearing brakes down so fast….