The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has changed the date of its annual Roadcheck to June 8-10.
The agency's annual enforcement program, which was originally scheduled for June 1-3, was changed because the previous date was too close to the Memorial Day weekend, according to reports by Land Line magazine.

If the event had followed Memorial Day weekend, it may have resulted in a lot of overtime for enforcement officers, the publication reported.

CVSA sponsors Roadcheck each year with the FMCSA, Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation in Mexico. The 72-hour Roadcheck is meant to emphasize the importance of safety to commercial truck and bus drivers. In 2009, the organization monitored about 17 trucks or buses every minute during the 72-hour period.

Last year's enforcement blitz focused on the North American Standard Level I inspection, and with 9,700 CVSA and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration certified inspectors at 2,148 locations, 57,013 of the 72,782 inspections were NAS Level I. This was a total inspection increase of 7.1 percent from 2008 and an 8.9 percent boost in NAS Level I inspections from 2008.

For more information, visit www.cvsa.org.