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More than 4,600 trucks parked during Brake Safety Week for brake-related violations
During the week, inspectors conducted 34,320 inspections on commercial vehicles, resulting in 4,626 (13.5%) out of service orders for brakes violations.
November 12, 2019
Business
Updated CVSA out-of-service criteria goes into effect
Changes to CVSA’s North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria handbook for 2019 include adding out-of-service criteria for a missing driver’s seat, clarifying language for drivers using Skill Performance Evaluation Certificates and more.
April 2, 2019
Business
Hours of service, brake violations top Roadcheck out-of-service orders
During the 2018 CVSA's International Roadcheck inspections, nearly 12,000 trucks and buses placed out-of-service. Learn more about it on Overdrive.
September 12, 2018
Business
April Fool’s Day ELD-OOS nightmare may not be tough as some have guessed
In the weekly spot market update, a little intel from a recent DAT survey suggests FMCSA’s 96 percent ELD compliance rate is probably close to correct. Meantime, spot rates hold firm, and may be on the rise this week with volume trends in dry van, flat segments.
March 28, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
As hard enforcement of ELD mandate looms, FMCSA details return-to-duty procedure
In two weeks, truckers cited for ELD non-compliance will be placed out of service for 10 hours. Here’s FMCSA’s expected return-to-duty protocol. The agency says since December 18, only four percent of inspections have yielded an ELD infraction.
March 15, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Out-of-service conditions related to ELDs
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s updated out-of-service criteria include those related to electronic logging devices. None are new OOS conditions. Rather, they’re footnotes related to current OOS conditions having to do with the hours of service, namely having no log book, having no previous seven days of logs and presenting a false log. All require putting the driver OOS for 10 consecutive hours.
July 19, 2017
Business
FMCSA shuts down seven-truck carrier for numerous safety violations
According to FMCSA, safety inspections were conducted on six of the company’s seven trucks, and out-of-service violations were found in all six trucks.
June 13, 2016
Business
Tennessee-based driver shut down after police find drugs, beer in cab after crash
Jason L. Flynn made an illegal turn in north Georgia on March 17, which caused a crash with a passenger vehicle. The vehicle became wedged underneath Flynn’s trailer, hospitalizing the driver.
May 10, 2016
Business
FMCSA blocks Canadian trucker from U.S., citing violations of out-of-service orders
FMCSA said Gill “willfully disregarded the out-of-service order” in three separate instances in four days and continued driving his truck before being shut down after the fourth order. He was also found to have surreptitiously taken his truck from a storage facility where it had been towed.
March 30, 2016
Business
FMCSA orders recall-affected Volvo trucks out-of-service
Affected trucks include model year 2016-2017 VNL, VNX, and VNM trucks manufactured from May 11, 2015 through March 8, 2016.
March 23, 2016
Business
S.C. driver shut down after involvement in fatal hit-and-run, Mass. trucking company shut down
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued effective shutdown orders recently to a South Carolina-licensed driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run and a Massachusetts-based trucking company that failed to maintain equipment and oversee its drivers.
March 17, 2016
Business
California driver shut down after failed drug tests, crash
The driver was found to be medically unqualified to operate a commercial vehicle during a May 2015 FMCSA investigation in which the agency discovered he’d tested positive for the use of prohibited controlled substances, amphetamines or methamphetamines, on three separate occasions since 2012.
February 19, 2016
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