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CVSA’s Will Schaefer and HDT’s Jim Park dig into the reasons for the fairly consistent brake out-of-service rates and how inspectors manage to uncover brake defects that seem to elude drivers and technicians.
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If CVSA vehicle inspectors manage to find so many brake defects during roadside inspections, why can’t technicians and drivers find them first?
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Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week from Aug. 21-27 will focus on capturing data on brake hose/tubing chafing violations.
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During Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week inspection and enforcement initiative, 88% of commercial motor vehicles did not have critical brake-related violations.
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Brakes are the most important safety feature on trucks, yet they may not be getting the respect attention they deserve from drivers and technicians.
Read More →The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's Brake Safety Week will be held Aug. 22-28. Commercial motor vehicle inspectors will conduct inspections and remove commercial motor vehicles found to have brake-related out-of-service violations from the roadways.
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Why was your truck put out of service? Answers to common questions about brake inspections.
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It might not come as a surprise that fleets often overlook brake hoses and tubing that supply air to their trucks' brakes.
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According to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, this year’s Brake Safety Week saw 12% of the 43,565 commercial motor vehicles inspected placed out of service for brake-related violations.
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Tubing and hose chafing violations will be a focal point for Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance enforcement officers Aug. 23-29, as they conduct Level 1 inspections as part of Brake Safety Week.
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