19% of vehicles taken out of service during 2023’s biggest truck inspection blitz

On Monday, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) released the results from this year’s International Roadcheck inspection effort.

Roadcheck 2023 took place May 16 — 18 in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.

During the 72 hour Roadcheck effort, 59,429 commercial motor vehicles were inspected. According to the CVSA, a total of 116,669 violations were identified, which includes all driver and vehicle out-of-service violations and violations that were not out of service, combined.

Nineteen percent of inspected vehicles (11,270 commercial motor vehicles), were placed out of service for safety violations.

CVSA inspectors placed 5.5% (3,256) of inspected drivers out of service for driver violations.

This year, the area of emphasis for Roadcheck inspectors was anti-lock braking systems (ABS) and cargo securement. Officers discovered 2,975 cargo securement violations and 4,127 ABS violations – four were discovered on motorcoaches, 1,426 on power units and 2,697 on trailers, the CVSA said.

The CVSA noted that 81% percent of the commercial motor vehicles and 94.5% of the commercial motor vehicle drivers inspected did not have any out of service violations and continued en route to safely complete their runs.