Annual truck and trailer inspections

Yes, twice recently. Makes no sense to me.

 

Just to make it clear.
An annual inspection as required by FMCSA is not the same thing as a CVSA inspection.
Now if the brokers are talking about an FMCSA annual inspection, simply get it done at any shop.
If they are talking about a CVSA inspection (CSA) then nothing you can really do. You can ask for an inspection, but by default the answer is no (as per CVSA guidelines).

 

Good point. We’re referring to Snapshot.

 

It's not annual inspections, it's actual inspections by DOT.

 

Makes perfect sense. Look in the for sale section here at all the illegal double-brokers chomping at the bit to buy MC numbers with inspections on them. By requiring an inspection, the customer knows the company booking the load actually has trucks and aren't illegally double-brokering the load to skim more money off and then often failing to pay or paying the driver late.

This is also why some customers will require your MC number at pickup... it has to match the number of the "provider" who booked the load. If not, you can't get loaded because they know you were the victim of a double-broker scam.

 

So that’s the reason. Makes sense.