About 13.5% of commercial motor vehicles inspected in the U.S. and Canada during 2019 Brake Safety Week in September were removed from roadways for brake-related violations, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced Nov. 12.
November 12, 2019
Government, Business, Safety
A brake inspection from a previous Brake Safety Week. (CVSA)
13.5% of Vehicles Inspected During Brake Safety Week Placed Out of Service
A brake inspection from a previous Brake Safety Week. (CVSA)
Government, Safety
A trucked gets pulled over on U.S. Route 52 in St. Paul, Minn., in 2015. Commercial motor vehicles drivers were issued about 8% of all speeding citations during 2019 Operation Safe Driver Week. (Ruin Raider/Flickr)
Car Drivers Get 92% of Speeding Citations During CVSA Safety Initiative
A trucked gets pulled over on U.S. Route 52 in St. Paul, Minn., in 2015. Commercial motor vehicles drivers were issued about 8% of all speeding citations during 2019 Operation Safe Driver Week. (Ruin Raider/Flickr)
Law enforcement officers issued more than 17,000 speeding citations to drivers of cars and trucks traveling on highways in the United States and Canada during Operation Safe Driver Week.
September 17, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety
CVSA Executive Director Collin Mooney speaks at the 2017 Management Conference & Exhibition. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics)
CVSA Asks Senate to Fund an Updated Major Crash Causation Study
CVSA Executive Director Collin Mooney speaks at the 2017 Management Conference & Exhibition. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics)
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has asked U.S. Senate appropriators to include funding in the 2020 transportation funding bill for a study that would explore the causes for commercial vehicle crashes, an update to a similar study completed 16 years ago.
August 9, 2019CVSA Inspectors Place More Than 1,600 CMVs Out of Service for Brake Violations
CVSA
Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance inspectors removed more than 1,600 commercial vehicles from roadways in the U.S. and Canada for critical brake-related violations during an unannounced enforcement effort.
August 8, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Safety, Perspective
Perspective: ELD Data Can Help Fleets Improve Safety
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will hold its annual Operation Safe Driver Week July 14-20, and this year’s theme is speeding.
July 12, 2019
Safety
A worker pushes a hydraulic hand pallet truck at a warehouse. The CVSA wants to put more of the onus on properly securing cargo on shippers. (Getty Images)
CVSA Seeks Solution to Allow Inspectors to Ticket Shippers for Cargo Securement Violations
A worker pushes a hydraulic hand pallet truck at a warehouse. The CVSA wants to put more of the onus on properly securing cargo on shippers. (Getty Images)
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has asked U.S. and Canadian trucking regulators to explore a solution that would permit roadside inspectors to cite shippers — not just drivers and motor carriers — for cargo securement violations in sealed trailers and intermodal containers.
May 22, 2019
Government, Business, Equipment, Safety
A Stoughton Trailers rear impact guard. (Joseph Terry/Transport Topics)
CVSA Petitions FMCSA to Drop Rear Underride Guard Label Requirement
A Stoughton Trailers rear impact guard. (Joseph Terry/Transport Topics)
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has petitioned federal regulators to eliminate a requirement that manufacturer certification stickers be on truck and trailer rear underride guards.
April 9, 2019
Government, Business, Technology
A driver uses an AOBRD. (Omnitracs Inc.)
CVSA’s Collin Mooney: Trouble Awaits Fleets Delaying Switch From AOBRDs to ELDs
A driver uses an AOBRD. (Omnitracs Inc.)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A “manufacturers crisis” in transferring automatic onboard recording device software into electronic logging devices is in the making, according to the head of the trade organization representing commercial vehicle inspectors.
March 22, 2019
Government, Business
A Colorado hemp farm. (Colorado Department of Agriculture)
Law Enforcement Officers Challenged to Enforce Bill Legalizing Transport of Hemp, CVSA Says
A Colorado hemp farm. (Colorado Department of Agriculture)
Conflicts between existing state laws and a new federal law legalizing the transport of industrial hemp are making it difficult for law enforcement officers to enforce the new law, the head of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance told officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
March 14, 2019
Business, Technology, Safety
An officer conducts a roadside inspection. (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration)
CVSA: Mirrors Have Role in Roadside Inspections
An officer conducts a roadside inspection. (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration)
Camera monitoring systems promise to improve highway safety by giving truck drivers better visibility around the outside of the truck, but removing the mirrors could force highway safety inspectors to change their practices, according to the executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.
January 25, 2019