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Voices

Roadcheck preps: ‘Business as usual’ for many owner-ops, though questions about roadside approach remain

Preps for Roadcheck by Overdrive readers include a variety of equipment inspections and third-party checks, plus just “business as usual” for the largest share — the nearly as large number of recent poll respondents who noted they scheduled vacation highlights how many view the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections, as little more than a nuisance.

May 31, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Let’s end the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections

“In the wake of several state troopers and truck drivers being hit on the side of the road in recent months, I feel the time has come to change the regulations and require more than one inspection be conducted every 12 months in an approved location.” Forcing more routine around equipment inspections, owner-op Gary Buchs believes, will pay multiple dividends.

May 15, 2019

Business

Stay Metrics offering free Roadcheck training

This year’s training module offers information on what inspectors will be looking for with the steering wheel and column, steering systems, axels and torsion bars, suspension systems and more. Stay Metrics and Luma began offering the complimentary training modules for Roadcheck in 2016.

May 15, 2019

Business

Pilot Flying J offering free mid-trip inspections ahead of Roadcheck inspection blitz

To help truck drivers prepare for next month’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s International Roadcheck inspection blitz, Pilot Flying J is offering free mid-trip inspections at its service center locations through June 7.

May 6, 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

Legislation to require side underride guards on trailers reintroduced in Congress

The bill, dubbed the Stop Underrides Act, would require underride guards on the sides and front of a truck and would update the standards for underrides on the back of trailers. It would also add underride guards as part of the required annual inspections for trucks.

March 7, 2019

Channel 19

‘Be pro out there’: More share-the-road resources

ATEF received a grant from the Office of Highway Safety. The grant allows ATEF to continue educating the public about safe highway behaviors around trucks.

February 14, 2019

Business

#WearBlueDay in the fight against human trafficking

Today, Jan. 11, is #WearBlueDay, otherwise known as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign. The CVSA alliance of trucking-industry reps and law enforcement is participating in a variety of ways in the fight against trafficking, as are plenty individual professional truckers.

January 11, 2019

Business

Nominations sought for CVSA’s IDEA trucker award

The annual award is meant to recognize drivers who go above and beyond in their normal truck driving duties.

December 10, 2018

Business

An hours of service ‘secret weapon’ in Kansas

For those running paper logs or ELDs, but particularly the former, Kansas has something of a secret weapon for its Level 3 driver inspections, notes highway patrol Captain Chris Turner. Many of those inspections, taking place primarily at rest stops, are performed by a “small group of retired troopers.” …

November 23, 2018

Voices

‘About time’: Readers respond to new CVSA directive not to wake off-duty drivers to inspect

Responses to CVSA’s new policy directive to inspectors not to wake off-duty truckers for the purposes of conducting a random inspection ranged from exasperated positivity — “About time” ran the two-word response of multiple readers at Overdrive’s Facebook page — to I-hope-they-get-the-memo identifications of specific problem jurisdictions.

November 14, 2018

Business

New CVSA policy stresses that inspectors shouldn’t interrupt off-duty drivers for random inspection

Updated policy guidance from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance issued in late September establishes that inspectors should not disrupt drivers’ off-duty or sleeper berth time, when they’re legally parked, for a random inspection.

November 12, 2018