Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual International Roadcheck is the largest enforcement blitz of the year. This year it saw inspectors in the U.S. and Canada put huge numbers of vehicles and truck drivers out of service. The most common violation for drivers? Hours of Service violations.
Between June 4th and June 6th of this year, 67,072 commercial vehicle inspections took place as part of CVSA’s International Roadcheck. During those inspections, 17.9% of the vehicles (12,019) were placed out-of-service and 4.2% of the drivers (2,784) were placed out-of-service.
Vehicles were placed out of service at a higher rate in Canada than in the U.S. (19.9% and 17.7% respectively), but drivers were placed out-of-service at a higher rate in the U.S. than Canada (4.4% and 2% respectively).
CVSA’s focus on steering systems didn’t yield huge results with only 2.5% of all out-of-service violations relating to steering issues. Instead, braking systems took home the crown with 28% of all violations.
Among drivers, 1,179 Hours of Service violations were recorded. That comes in at 37.2% of all driver out-of-service violations. A shocking 714 drivers were caught driving with the wrong class license, 467 drivers were cited for falsifying their logs, 232 were driving on a suspended license, and 94 received citations for driving with an expired license.
Source: CVSA, truckersreport
Robert Abare says
Out of all these violations in my opinion the only one that I could possibly fathom, is the one with your license being expired. I do not have an excuse for that but I have ran into that situation and I agree it was totally my fault. It was not from the authorities that I found this out it was on a simple Friday morning when the boss or I should say the plant manager of the company that I work for random language checking everybody’s license. I handed him my license and he said you won’t be driving today that your license is expired, and it was expired for almost 4 months, shame on me I didn’t even know it and I know most people wouldn’t believe that but I could pass a polygraph that would say that I did not realize my license was expired. Definitely my fault and I am a professional truck driver I should know better! The people who got caught driving out of classification I honestly have nots heard of that ever happening, obviously it is a problem and that’s definitely something that the driver knows he’s doing in my opinion. Falsifying log books I’m not proud of it but I believe most people have probably done that doesn’t make it right. Believe it or not 1 news tablets and Qualcomm computers came into play all the drivers had a problem with that at first, but that actually stops everybody from doing illegal things and actually helps the driver so the boss or the company cannot make them work more hours the law allows.
Joe says
Believe it or not there are ELDs you can use like paper logs as long as you dont certify your logs
Mark says
On the contray the wrong license thing happens more than you think, drivers with bus license can not drive a semi under their license in most states but they do it instead of paying the extra money for the proper license. Another is there is a difference in some states with class 1 and class 2, and it is those differences state to state that get them in trouble.
Joe2boltz says
Many ways around the eld and most drivers know how and use them.
Sheriff John says
Sounds like the CVSA focused on the wrong emphasis. It should have been indicated, whether or not, the log falsifications were ELD or Paper.
Chuckie says
Who is using paper logs that are required?
Chuckie says
Only a tiny fraction of drivers (drive away tow away mostly) can use paper logs.
Mark Cobb says
I driver with a truck that has an engine that was made in 1999 or earlier, is not required to use ELD.
Joe says
I use paper logs, in California if you run intrastate you can use them and can drive 12 hrs a day, 80 hrs in 8 days instead of 70
I work everyday from June until football season starts, pull in 2k a week
Sheriff John says
Chuckie, any truck with an engine 1999 or older are using paper logs…there are tens of thousands of trucks that are 1999 and older on the road. I see dozens every single day.
Mark says
There are several vehicles that do not use nor are required to eld such as tow, cranes, limited distance, grandfathered trucks
Clark blasdel says
I agree….That way we could get an idea how good elogs are keeping violaters at bay!
Alex Korolev says
Both of them could be falsified
Joseph Wayne Kinser says
Roughly 1500 citations issued amongst millions of drivers. Sounds like gotcha news overload. Written by an mathematic wizard who quit school midway through the fifth grade.
Joseph Wayne Kinser says
One out of 120,000 trucks were in violation. If only the rest of our motoring society were half as good.
Mr b says
Your math is wrong. The number is only out of those inspected not the 3.5 million drivers over all. And that number is way to high
Terry Barron says
I can understand the expired license, I done it before. It’s not easy to take time off to go and get it done or the jerk boss won’t give you time to go get it done. I still don’t understand brake problems? How hard is it to do a good Pre-Trip? Over my 25 years of driving I never had a violation on my equipment or Hazmat paperwork. I had a few with bad registration on trailers and one time CHP could not find the VIN number on a trailer and I had to get it fixed and then take it back into a chicken coop to get it signed off that it was fixed. I told the officer That I have no clue where the trailer was going to be from day to day since I drove for a LTL company. I told him it could end up in Texas or any place in country. Anyway we worked it out to get it fixed and to get it back to me within a week and I have no idea how the company got it done!! Come to find out the VIN was right there! This was not a regular trailer we owned and it was an odd ball. 99.9% of the trailers all came from the company’s own trailer manufacturing division. Road Systems a division or Con-Way Freight. So I get it back to same officer at Mt Shasta Ca on I-5 and the officer starts telling me that I needed to make an appointment!!!! That is when I told him that I am super shocked that I even got the trailer back! It gets relayed from Seattle to San Diego to Texas to New York City you never know where the trailers going to be I only drive it for a couple hundred miles and handed off to somebody else and then I grab his trailers and go back where it came from. Then when I showed him the VIN and how he missed it and I Thanked him for wasting time and money and a lot of logistics to get the trailer back to him!!!!!!
Larry Elrod says
I started driving in1970 and I love being on the road , but I can’t believe what I read from today’s drivers it’s not hard to understand why so many drivers were put out of service and for suspended license that’s unreal that’s your on fault from what I see and hear the world is really full of stupid people and it seems they all want to drive trucks
George says
If you have to run illegal to make a decent buck that’s your fault . Not the shitty company you work for. Your telling yourself I’m being used and abused and I’m ok with that! Nothing changes if nothing changes . As long as drivers accept what dispatchers,shippers and receivers dish out the system will remain broke! Happy Trails
Robin says
you can have a suspended license and not even know it because in Oregon and I’m not sure if they still do it anymore but if you received in the mail a survey from ODOT asking you about your license and insurance etc. and you do not respond within 30 days because like a lot of us, you get a survey and you just think no big deal and you throw it away.
Now how are OTR drivers supposed to know and respond to the survey if they’re halfway across the country? Then they find out the hard way that they been suspended the next time they have any interaction with a LEO.
My second item is more of just a derogatory editorial comment, “A shocking 714 drivers were caught driving with the wrong class license, 467 drivers were cited for falsifying their logs, 232 were driving on a suspended license, and 94 received citations for driving with an expired license.” If you can come into the country illegally (a misdemeanor) be deported and return illegally (a felony) and nobody cares… Then why should we worry about something as silly as a drivers license?
mike cole says
If its elog how are you falsifying
Joe2boltz says
Its easy.
Loading or unloading before you start your clock.
Moving the truck from parked to do the above without starting your clock. Many others but those are the 2 biggest that everyone does.
Jerry says
Now that they said all maybe they need to do the same with cars and DOING THEIR JOB OF ENFORCING THE TEXTING LAW but they don’t what we need to do is SHUT THIS COUNTRY DOWN FOR A WEEK
Don Jay Barnes says
Excellent comment
Mark says
There are several vehicles that do not use nor are required to eld such as tow, cranes, limited distance, grandfathered trucks
Edward Lester says
It speaks volumes when OOS numbers are how you measure success. It is common knowledge among truckers although unspoken, probably for fear of reprisal, that DOT is universally predatory. If you get pulled behind the scales you will leave with a “driving award”. I was “inspected” at a Mississippi scale and placed out of service for 1 trailer turn signal. I wiggled the pigtail, the signal worked, but the OOS violation will remain on my record for THREE years. Until DOT can figure another way to get their “powergasms” truckers will suffer. If you object to a write up they will begin to “fondle” their fire arm, a clear threat of violence. I will probably be ostracized, or worse for this comment but I think I’m allowed to “speak freely”, perhaps not, we’ll see.
Randall Brinkman says
Figures don’t lie ; But liars figure
We are being led into captivity
Michael t dobbyn says
But in the en elds made use all safe an fuzzy right.
Lady Doe says
I think the only thing they should look at is your breaks and make sure you are not hauling human trafficking. And drugs. And make sure you are not leaving a trail of fluid down the
highway
Joe2boltz says
It’s all done for revenue.
Rules are bent for it.
sonny Pruitt says
Let’s see,we have e logs,red light cameras,in cab cameras,license plate scanners,traffic cameras,and youtubers videoing everything and the roads still aren’t any safer?oh well,so much for “freedom” of the open road.
sonny Pruitt says
Watch “Livingston parish officer being ridiculous” on yt. And you’ll see how law enforcement feels about truck drivers.
caboverpete says
I work for a driver leasing company, our customer says i’m a part time fill in driver, I run paper logs, others that are full time teams run elogs but they said i’m NOT required to use elogs working for them