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Business

Where inspections are rising: Illinois nearly doubles activity in wake of high-profile crashes

Following high-profile truck crashes that killed two of its officers between 2012 and 2014, Illinois bucked recent downward inspection trends with a doubling of intensity over those years.

June 3, 2015

Business

Decreasing inspections: Georgia’s numbers fall

The state dialed back on overall inspections from 81,183 in 2013 to 69,188 in 2014, a 15 percent decline. According to state officials, such a level may not hold as it focuses on doing more with less.

June 2, 2015

Business

Decreasing inspections, enforcement variability as movement against CSA gains steam

With Roadcheck ramping up Tuesday, June 2, Overdrive’s annual update to the winding CSA’s Data Trail shows a downward national inspection intensity trend, though some key states move in the opposite direction.

June 1, 2015

Channel 19

How to: Influence enforcement actions at roadside

Some things are obvious — “take pride in your stuff,” says one officer — others not so, when it comes to managing encounters with officers, whether at roadside or in a weigh station inspection barn.

May 29, 2015

Business

Roadcheck 2015 inspection spree set for next week, here’s CVSA’s checklists for drivers, carriers

Roadcheck, the annual inspection blitz done by a joint effort of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and others, is scheduled for next week.

May 28, 2015

Voices

Analyst: CSA ‘sea change’ coming

Following broad movement among motor carrier groups and individual interactions at the Congressional level and throughout government, more than 80 percent of readers say yes to pulling back the reins on the CSA program.

May 13, 2015

Channel 19

‘Discretion’ is a big word ……

What you do throughout your encounters with motor carrier enforcement officers may end up having a lot to do with the ending picture in the inspection report.

May 12, 2015

Business

Keeping up with the upkeep

On CVSA’s unsuccessful move to remove English Language proficiency from regulatory requirements…

May 8, 2015

Channel 19

Photos: Brush-fire shutdown of SB I-85 in GA

Headed out of S.C. to Nashville through the area, a planned 9-hour-or-so run turned into one that, in a different life, would have come pretty well close to the end of the 14-hour window.

May 7, 2015

Business

Geographically undesirable: Q&A with Indiana, S.C. enforcement reps

Efficacy and fairness of the federal CSA program questioned given broad geographical differences in approaches to enforcement. More from this candid talk at TCA’s Safety/Security Division meet.

May 5, 2015

Channel 19

Heads up, there’s ‘bears everywhere’: Thursday enforcement round-up

‘Roadcheck effect’ follow-up: Midwest Truckers spar with Will County, Ill., law enforcement and the state DOT; reports in Washington emphasis priority patrols from truck enforcement statewide.

April 30, 2015

Voices

POLL: Where do you stand on industry call to remove CSA scores from public view?

Should carriers’ CSA SMS percentile rankings/scores be removed from public view? Weigh in via this poll.

April 28, 2015