This year’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) 2024 International Roadcheck was conducted May 14-16.
CVSA inspectors across North America advocate compliance, enforcement and educational initiatives. These initiatives actively target improving various elements of motor carrier, vehicle, and driver safety. Additionally, they include a special emphasis placed on a category of violations. This year’s focus was on tractor protection systems, anti-bleed back systems, as well as alcohol and controlled substance possession.
2024 Roadcheck Violation Results
CVSA-certified enforcement personnel conducted 48,761 inspections. 77% of commercial motor vehicles and 95.2% of their drivers passed the inspection with zero out-of-service (OOS) violations. (Source) On the other hand, within that three-day inspection initiative, inspectors identified and placed a total of 23% of commercial vehicles (9,345) and 4.8% of drivers (2,290) out of service. 13,567 were vehicle violations, 2,714 were driver violations, and 163 were hazardous materials/dangerous goods violations. (Source)
These statistics slightly increased from last year’s OOS rate which was 19% for vehicles. “As of August 30, the national average for vehicle OOS violations was 22.26% and 6.67% for driver OOS violations.” (Source)
Of the over 40,000 Level I, II, and V North American inspections, just over 9,000 vehicles were placed out of service. This means those vehicles were prohibited from any further travel until all OOS violations were corrected or fixed. A vehicle is placed out of service when an inspector identifies critical violations, outlined in the CVSA’s North American Out-of-Service Criteria. This year’s leading OOS violation in North America was defective service brakes, same as last year.
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Additional Violations
Another reason 870 drivers were placed out of service was due to hours-of-service violations. Hours-of-service (HOS) violations occur when a commercial motor vehicle driver exceeds their allotted hours of driving. While HOS violations were the most common, other violations issued to drivers were for drug and alcohol possession/use, 78 and 26 respectively.
Additionally, 535 seat belt violations were cited during the 2024 International Roadcheck. Wearing a safety belt is extremely important for not only the driver of a vehicle, but passengers as well as others on the road. Discover more about driver and road safety with our National Seat Belt Day blog.
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