CSA's Data Trail: Page 3

Results of the Minnesota fatigue checklist blowback
Since Minnesota's fatigue checklist was deemed a violation of truckers' Fourth Amendment rights, enforcement of regulation 392.3 remains low compared to 2011.
November 12, 2018
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Minnesota aims at moving targets
Some rehabilitation of Minnesota’s reputation — in the wake of the state’s notorious “fatigue checklist,” judged a violation of truckers’ Fourth Amendment rights in 2011 — is on offer via truckers’ anecdotes and data on its enforcement program, with a shift toward mobile traffic enforcement and, perhaps, a willingness of officers to credit professionalism where it’s due.
November 8, 2018
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Roadside distractions: The Empire State’s truck-enforcement efforts, by the numbers
New York has staffed up well to maintain its inspection volume. Read all more about the Empire State's inspection efforts here on Overdrive.
September 28, 2018
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Top 10 states for brake and tire violations, and where they overlap
Missouri, Texas, Montana, Tennessee, and California appeared on both top 10 lists for brakes and tires violations. Check out the lists on Overdrive today.
September 18, 2018
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Tennessee shows some truck-friendly colors
Electronic logging devices and hours of service might have something to do with truck drivers brushing up their inspection skills. More on Overdrive Online.
September 17, 2018
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Tesla Semi and its clean inspection violate the eye test of more than one reader
The Tesla Semi, inspected at Donner Pass Inspection Station, received a clean inspection report; however, many Overdrive readers are not impressed by its looks.
August 17, 2018
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More on personal conveyance in the hours of service with Roadcheck a day away
With Roadchecks starting June 5th, be in the know about the new personal conveyance guidelines and check out the decline in violations since 2014.
June 4, 2018
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A view on the rise in clean inspections, from a state where they’re fairly uncommon
In our annual CSA’s Data Trail analysis, Indiana state ranks 10th this year in clean inspections, with less than a third of their total inspections having come out entirely violation-free over the course of calendar year 2016. But look at improvement in truckers’ favor in that metric, and you’ll see that Indiana is one of just a few states that improved in that particular metric by more than 50 percent over the preceding year.
December 28, 2017
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A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise
In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.
December 27, 2017
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Trends in violations, inspections move in truckers’ favor
Since year 2012, when the violation-free inspection percentage was below 40 percent, while the total number of inspections has remained relatively level and even fallen a little, violation-free inspection numbers have grown considerably, by more than 18 percent.
November 2, 2017
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The 18 states that issue more violations per inspection than the national average
In any of these states, it’s most likely that if you get inspected you’ll walk away with a violation. All of them write more than 1.7 per every individual inspection, with Connecticut at the top of the list with more than 3.
November 17, 2016
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Top 10 toughest states for tire violations
Oregon, Texas and North Carolina lead the tire-violations rankings, the latter two also showing an uncommonly strong focus on maintenance/equipment-related violations overall. Peruse more nationally ranked data on equipment violations here.
October 11, 2016
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North Carolina enforcement: Where officer discretion can help
Professionalism at roadside can go a long way in influencing enforcement actions in North Carolina. The highway patrol there isn’t, by and large, “looking to jam up guys who are decent,” operators note. More in this CSA’s Data Trail profile of the state, by the numbers.
October 10, 2016
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‘Border effect’ on inspections: Update
Among the four states on the U.S.-Mexico border, inspection numbers overall are among the highest in the nation. All four states rank in the top 10 for inspection intensity.
September 12, 2016
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Common ground: New Mexico’s inspection-heavy enforcement program
Capt. Greg Kerr of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety’s truck-enforcement unit has thoughts about highway safety that truck drivers may find familiar and sensible. Chiefly: He understands that four-wheelers are ‘part of the problem’ with safety.
September 9, 2016
New Mexico’s heavy roadside presence and active inspection program produces one of the highest inspection-intensity rankings nationwide. Violation concentrations are what you would expect from such a targeted approach, with hours of service, speeding and light violations ranking high in its violation mix. However, the state’s inspectors’ reputation for fairness is underscored by its low violations-per-inspection rate and relatively high percentage of clean inspections. Access data for all 48 continental states via the download and interactive maps at this CSA’s Data Trail main hub.
Inspections: Top 10 states where enforcement’s hot
Maryland and California maintain the No. 1 and No. 2 spots atop the list of the most-intense states for total inspections, measured per lane-mile of National Highway System in the state’s borders.
July 13, 2016
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Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills wins three major journalism awards
Overdrive and Senior Editor Todd Dills won Best Series for CSA’s Data Trail, a continuation of the series that received business-to-business media’s highest honor, the Grand Neal, in 2014. He also won Neals for Best Data Journalist and Best Range of Work.
April 4, 2016
Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills’ CSA-related work this year concentrated mostly on the variability in state to state enforcement, one of the major flaws with the CSA system. Click here or the photo above to see all of the articles posted in the CSA’s Data Trail series.
Roadside heat waning in Illinois
After a focus on moving violations led to a dramatic climb up Overdrive’s state inspection-intensity rankings in 2014, the Illinois State Police show signs of backing off.
November 24, 2015
Illinois’ top-10 inspection intensity ranking in 2014 was a relatively new phenomenon for the Land of Lincoln. In 2014 alone, the state climbed 15 places to No. 7. Illinois is clearly a leader in the stats for the high percentage of moving-type violations it marks on inspection reports. That emphasis coincides with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s goal in recent years to have states focus on the causes underpinning most at-fault truck accidents, as opposed to maintenance violations that show much less causation. Illinois also is not shy about giving credit where it’s due, with an above-average rate of clean inspections logged. That share has grown since 2011 by about 20 percent.
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