Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

CVSA votes to put truck drivers with limited English out of service

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance board of directors voted on Thursday to make English proficiency violations grounds for truck drivers to be placed out of service, a decision that could significantly reduce trucking capacity.

The vote, held under an emergency provision in CVSA’s bylaws, came just days after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing that the federal out-of-service criteria be revised to reflect the policy change, reversing a less stringent policy that has...

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Trump to require that truckers speak and read English

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Monday requiring that truck drivers be able to speak English or be placed out of service.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed via social media a Breitbart report on the anticipated order.

“Today @POTUS and I will be making a big announcement to make our roadways safer and put American truckers first,” Duffy posted, linking to the report.

Stay tuned! Today @POTUS and I will be making a big announcement to make our...

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Circle the dates: International Roadcheck set for mid-May

International Roadcheck will be May 13-15 this year.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced the dates Wednesday. 

The focus of Roadcheck this year will be both compliance with federal hours-of-service regulations and tire maintenance.

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CVSA data on International Roadcheck confirms that many drivers stayed home

Just-released data on this year’s International Roadcheck results add to other indications that drivers in 2024 were more likely to stay home during the three-day compliance crackdown than they were in 2023.

The evidence that the annual Roadcheck “vacation” may have had a bigger impact this year than in recent years first came in data from the Outbound Tender Rejection Index (OTRI) in SONAR during May, which showed a clear increase in that benchmark. OTRI reflects freight that is tendered under...

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Dates set for International Roadcheck: May 14-16

International Roadcheck will be May 14-16 this year, a few days earlier on the calendar than it was in 2023.

Legend holds that many truck drivers park their rigs for a few days to avoid stepped-up police activity during the event, which the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), which administers Roadcheck, describes as a “high-visibility, high-volume commercial motor vehicle inspection and regulatory compliance enforcement initiative that takes place over three days in Canada, Mexico and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dates-set-for-international-roadcheck-may-14-16

Safety officials on automatic emergency braking mandate: Not so fast

WASHINGTON — State law enforcement officials and brake manufacturers want more interaction between the trucking industry and federal regulators before the government considers public comments on a rule to mandate automatic emergency braking (AEB) on heavy trucks.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), whose members include state police and highway patrols, and the Commercial Vehicle Brake Manufacturers Council (CVBMC), a group under CVSA that represents OEMs, contend that the...

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FMCSA considering limiting scope of emergency waivers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing to roll back the relief automatically given to commercial truckers and trucking companies when disaster strikes.

The change, which would alter a rule established in 1992, would mean that during a regional emergency caused by weather or other supply chain disruptions, drivers and carriers would be exempt only from daily and weekly limits on driving time and not other requirements that are also exempt in current emergency waivers.

Those...

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Trucking industry slams FMCSA’s proposed electronic ID mandate

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A proposal meant to revolutionize roadside inspection by requiring fleets and owner-operators to...

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Percentage of Brake Safety Week out-of-service orders holds steady in US

Results from Brake Safety Week conducted this year by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance came in at numbers close to the figures from 2021.

The number of vehicles inspected in the U.S. from Aug. 21-27 was 34,402, a significant increase from the 28,694 checked last year. But the out-of-service (OOS) violation rate barely budged — 13.5% last year to 13.6% in 2022.

Meanwhile, there was a notable increase in Canada, where inspections resulted in OOS violations coming in at 17.8% compared to 15.4%...

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