Life on the Road – Trucking News Blog

Here are some random results from the recent Roadcheck 2007 72 hour inspection program.

Rhode Island:

Commercial Inspections: 408 Total Driver & Vehicle Violations: 1,305 Drivers placed Out of Service: 41 Vehicles placed Out of Service: 85 Summons Issued: 107

Maine:

673 safety inspections, 914 total safety violations discovered, 79 vehicles out of service, 102 drivers out of service, 126 log violations, 61 false records of duty status, 14 Drivers found with suspended licenses (OAS), 13 drivers found to be disqualified to drive a commercial vehicle, 5 drug or alcohol violations

Also arrested 15 drivers for immigration violations by ICE.

Texas:

inspected 6,051 commercial vehicles, placing 27 percent of them out of service for equipment violations. 186 drivers out of service for hours-of-service violations. 1,123 trucks that needed a brake adjustment, 922 that had brake system problems, 188 that had tire or wheel problems and 273 that had light malfunctions.

Tennessee:

413 Commercial vehicles at Tennessee’s nine weigh stations and at random points along the interstates. During the Level 1 inspections, 59 commercial vehicles and 35 commercial drivers were placed out-of-service. 5 Seat belt violations, 33 hours of service violations and 1 false log violation.

Oregon:

A total of 93 Oregon safety inspectors, working at 58 sites around the state, inspected 746 trucks and drivers. They found 39% of trucks and 19% of drivers had critical safety violations that placed them out-of-service.

Starting to sound like a broken record, eh! It amazes me that drivers will actually pull onto a scale without doing something as simple as fastening a seatbelt! One thing that I saw that should concern all of us were the arrest for immigration violations. Beyond the well publicized driver in Nebraska that couldn’t speak English, we apparently have a significant of truck drivers working here illegally, as shown by arrest in Maine. How are these people getting and keeping CDL’s?