You have to have 3 roadside inspections?

I asked a Georgia DOT officer to inspect my truck a couple of years ago. It was quite hot and he said that he would not inspect my truck because he figured that if I wanted an inspection that everything would be in good shape. I think he mostly didn't want to get hot and dirty getting under my truck in the heat.

 

They said the same thing to me -- even though I, as a driver, had 2 of my 3 clean inspections while working for Con-way Truckload.


I don't mind -- good for them. Y'all complain about cut-rate brokers using fly by night companies with shoddy equipment, but when a broker tries to weed out those carriers -- you all complain? I don't get it. Some guy in a cubical 1,000 miles away doesn't know in what kind of condition you keep your truck -- roadside inspections are as good a metric as any...

 

I request inspections every 90 days in California. I need a current CVSA sticker on my trucks to use CHP to escort oversize loads. They never hassle me about it. Go ask them, they can only say no. I also used to have Arizona DPS come to my yard with rookie cops and do inspections, they will put a CVSA sticker on if you're good, if not its no shut down because you are not on the road. Win/win!

 

Hey Guntoter. When given a bad inspection or an OOS, even if you are not on a public road, it still counts as a bad inspection yes.

 

WOW you are luck to only have had 2 inspections in the past few years. I had nine roadsides in 2 years, but maybe because I was running a hotshot truck and trailer??

 

sounds like a brush off.

 

You need 3 inspections to get a rating and for your scores to show up. Under that, it is considered not enough data.

 

This actually makes a lot of sense to me. Customers are paying more and more for capacity and service is still lacking. Getting a truck put OOS is a huge black eye for a broker and if you only have a limited amount of information to make a decision you look for any way possible to help eliminate these issues.

Maybe not perfect but the customers want to see something is happening.

 

Sorry, haven't been on in a while. Yes if you drive your truck into an inspection facility then get OOS, it is a ding on your CSA. Don't volunteer for an inspection without doing a level one yourself first. If you don't think you can do one well enough, pay a shop to do one.

 

One more thing. If you have several trucks and have a need to be inspected (like I do) ask DOT to come to your shop/yard. They will bring trainees in and use your trucks as a test subject for new officers. If they find something its not an OOS because you were not on the road. The downside is, it may not show up on your Safer stats. But at least you'll know you will pass when you take it into a scale house the next day. Try contacting a Sergeant or whoever has decision making authority. It may not work but its worth a shot.