This year’s Roadcheck safety blitz was the best year since 2011 for truckers with out-of-service rates down significantly for both drivers and vehicles. Unfortunately the rates were still high enough to cause concern.
This past year saw the lowest OOS rate since 2011 with a 21.6% OOS rate for vehicles (down from 23% in 2014) and 3.6% OOS rate for drivers (down from 4%). While these numbers represent a 6% improvement for vehicle rates and a 10% improvement for drivers, the CVSA says that there is still a lot of work to be done educating truckers and carriers about properly maintaining their vehicles.
The annual safety blitz spearheaded by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is one of the largest enforcement initiatives in the United States with 10,000 enforcement officers working over a 72-hour period to perform truck and bus inspections with an emphasis on driver licensing, endorsements, and medical cards as well as vehicle maintenance issues.
Roadcheck 2015 performed 69,472 truck and bus inspections with 44,989 of them being standard level 1 inspections (the most rigorous). Since this year’s enforcement priorities placed proper load securing on the top of the list, here are the most common citations that were issued:
- Failure to prevent shifting/loss of load
- Failure to secure truck equipment such as tarps, dunnage, doors, tailgates, spare tires
- Damaged tie downs, typically for unacceptable wear on chain or cuts and tears on web straps
- Insufficient tie downs
- Loose tie downs
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jack says
driver, you are 2 bags of onions overweight..
m says
looks like eggplant to me.
Infosaur says
Driver OOS rate 3.6%
Vehicle OOS rate 21.6%
Looks like companies need to listen to their drivers when they report damage.
(Don’t give me “the driver didn’t pre-trip”, driver probably told them about the issue and they probably deferred the repair.)
Chuck says
This is still an absurdly high OOS rate for the equipment !!
I could see under 10% being acceptable, this is way higher!
Now the stupid FMCSA wants their feel good sticker products for trucks. Stupidity upon Stupidity!
If this is to be fixed, there should be a QUARTERLY DOT Inspection requirement, not annual !!
Once a year DOT Inspection falls WAAAAY short !!
Curtis Settles says
Why do companies or drivers have to wait until Law Enforcement tell them that the truck is in bad shape, why don’t dispatch and company owners take care of it when the driver make the complaint, you know stop a problem before it happens.
RenoBlues says
I used to run a route where all the local guys would just go fishing during blitz times.