It’s that time of year again. Road Check 2009
Posted on May 23, 2009 - 8:28pm by Everitt Mickey in Trucking
From the office of…….well from someones office. No doubt a great and majestic persona.
CVSA’S ROADCHECK DRIVES HOME THE IMPORANCE OF CMV SAFETY
Across North America, Law Enforcement Ensure CMV, Motorcoach Safety
WASHINGTON, DC (May 18, 2009) –Roadside inspectors patrolling North America’s highways June 2-4, 2009 will be driving home a clear message to commercial truck and bus operators: “Operate safely alongside passenger vehicles or we will stop you.” For 72 continuous hours inspectors and law enforcement officers will be conducting their annual “Roadcheck,” an event sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) which mobilizes federal, state, provincial and local inspectors to more than 1,000 locations across the continent to conduct comprehensive North American Standard Level I Inspections and other related roadside enforcement activities.
“Every year thousands of dedicated inspectors perform roadside inspections which save countless lives and make the highways we all travel on safer.” said Stephen F. Campbell, CVSA’s executive director. “We see great results because of the cooperation among a large group including industry, state and federal government agencies. In addition to enforcement, there are many educational events with government and industry happening all over the continent to drive home the safety message.”
Last year, 9,148 CVSA and FMCSA certified inspectors at 1,683 locations across North America performed 67,931 truck and bus inspections. 52,345 of the total were North American Standard Level I inspections, the most comprehensive roadside inspection. Both the total number of inspections and Level I inspections were records for the annual Roadcheck event. 2008 saw significant positive gains in out of service rates for most vehicle and driver types.
CVSA sponsors Roadcheck each year with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico).
“The Roadcheck campaign highlights the important work that commercial vehicle inspectors perform everyday to keep our roads safe and save lives,” said FMCSA Acting Deputy Administrator Rose McMurray. “The number and the severity of crashes each year involving large trucks and buses is declining. We must not lessen our resolve to work together to make our highways and roads safer for every traveler.”
This year, roadside inspectors will be focusing on: The NAS Level I Inspection which examines all of the following: driver’s license, medical examiner’s certificate and waiver, alcohol and drugs (if applicable), driver’s record of duty status (as required), hours of service, seat belt, vehicle inspection report, as well as the brake system, coupling devices, exhaust system, frame, fuel system, turn signals, brake lamps, tail lamps, head lamps, lamps on projecting loads, safe loading, steering mechanism, suspension, tires, van and open-top trailer bodies, wheels and rims, windshield wipers, emergency exits on buses and HM requirements, as applicable; Safety Belt enforcement; Motorcoach and bus safety compliance; and, Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) compliance. In 2005 SAFETEA-LU codified UCR into federal law. It replaced the Single State Registration System (SSRS). All motor carriers (for-hire, private and exempt) – as well as brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies operating in interstate or international commerce are subject to the new UCR.
CVSA is an international not-for-profit organization comprised of local, state, provincial, territorial and federal motor carrier safety officials and industry representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Our mission is to promote commercial motor vehicle safety and security by providing leadership to enforcement, industry and policy makers. In addition, CVSA has several hundred associate members who are committed to helping the Alliance achieve its goals; uniformity, compatibility and reciprocity of commercial vehicle inspections, and enforcement activities throughout North America by individuals dedicated to highway safety and security. For more on CVSA visit www.cvsa.org.
Thousands of dedicated inspectors whose diligent actions save countless lives.
Right.
Once again they make us, the trucker, out as being the bad guy.
Have a nice RoadCheck.
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The Boy Scouts every summer hold a jamboree so they can get together and learn how to start fires, set up tents and roast marshmallows. Well, cops, like Boy (and Girl) Scouts love nothing more than to dress up in their uniforms and get together to look at each other and play soldier. I did it when I was 10. I grew out of it. Cops become cops because they ALL are insecure and need to prove that they’re relevant to themselves and the non-cop public. Why else would anyone be a cop? Certainly not the pay, or the paperwork, or the bureaucracy or the courts, judges, etc.
Cops NEED to “commune” with their “own” to talk about their last big bust, car chase, that cute teacher trying not to be late to work who they gave a ticket to (ha ha) and other stories about how they made someone’s life miserable. No one else cares. Cops are morons. I applaud the few that have a brain and do the job to protect the public from the bad guys. But, I never met a cop in or out of uniform that I liked.
We call know cops have NO respect for truckers. And, believe me, the feeling is VERY mutual. So when the chance for cops to get together for a nationwide “bust-fest” involving truckers comes along, like the one being offered by the CVSA, how can “law enforcement” possibly resist? How else are they going to have any fun? Who will be the victims next? RV’ers? Motorcycles? Buses? No way. Ever see a bus pulled over for a CVSA inspection? No. How about a road block on I35 for a spot car inspection? Are you nuts! It’ll never happen. But truckers have no power, no say, no nothing to prevent this stupidity.
Safety? Yeah right. If they were so concerned about safety this boondoggle would go on all year long. But it’s a dog and pony show. A jamboree for cops. And what better group to harass than truckers?
Once again they make us, the trucker, out as being the bad guy..
I couldn’t agree with you more!!
International Trade is a Ponzi scheme. “This is an unsustainable progression of a moving all the highest paying Jobs off shore to have $2/day Slave Labor in China produce products for Industrialized Countries of the World”.
The REAL problem is that International Globalization of Trade is a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Ponzi scheme.
Here is how it works:
First you move all the highest paying jobs off shore to biggest labor market in the world.
Of Course in China that means you can get your products produced by the slave labor cost of $2/day.
Now you take all of these finished products and shipped then back to America, the largest and most expensive product market in the world. That way my International Company will make the largest profit possible on every item produced.
You get the products produced by the Slave labor and then you bring back too America and sell the product for best price.
But, then like all PONZI schemes there is this big problem of at some point in time you run out of people to sell your product too.
You say.. Why do you say that?
That is exactly where we are right now in this Ponzi scheme cycle. But, it seams I am the only person in the whole world completely understands it.
All the Industrial Countries of the world elected to join the NAFTA or the WTO and they thought this was the most efficient way to produce products.
Now we the people of all of the Industrial Countries are all going to be forced into bankruptcy and lose everything we have worked for all of our lives. That includes our Job, our home if mortgaged, our Pensions and everything else.
This is going to be exactly like the Big Depression of the 1930s, except this Depression will be much, much worse.
Because during the 1930s there was no credit cards and credit was few and far between. Now, it seems everything we own has been purchased on credit of some type. So, I guess now we will loss everything we own this time.
To go back to what I have dubbed: “International Trade PONZIE SCHEME”.
I want ask you just One Question.
If all of the Industrial countries of the world moved all of the best paying jobs off shore to a SLAVE LABOR MARKET paying $2/day like they have done for the last 20 years.
All of the Workers in the Industrial countries of the world will now be laid-off with no income and can not pay their bills.
All of the workers in China the SLAVE LABOR CAPITAL of the world will be working for $2/day.
HERE IS MY QUESTION:
Please tell me: “who in the HELL will have enough money or Income to Purchase all of these SLAVE LABOR products”?
Of Course the answer is “no one will have any money”.
That is exactly where we are right now..
The sad part about this is that all of this could have been avoided. Even the $875 Billion Dollars spent to Bailout Obama’s ole CFR buddies, the International Banksters and the Wall Street Gangsters.
If American would drop out of NAFTA and the WTO right now things would automatically correct it self like it has always done for the last 216 years in America.