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Sep 18, 2013

* USA & Canada: ROADCHECK 2013

* Missouri - Roadcheck 2013: Driver OOS violations down for second consecutive year

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Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line -16/2013: -- The number of commercial vehicle drivers being pulled off the road for out-of-service violations dropped for the second straight year according to data published from Roadcheck 2013... Commercial vehicle inspectors across North America completed 73,023 truck and bus inspections during the 72-hour-long enforcement blitz conducted by CVSA members. The campaign, which ran June 4-6, saw a total of 47,771 North American Standard Level I inspections, in which vehicles and drivers are assessed for violations of federal, state or Canadian provincial safety regulations... Of Level I inspections conducted in Canada and the U.S., 24.1 percent were found with out-of-service violations. There were a total of 71,630 driver inspections, including those conducted during Level I inspections, from which 4.2 percent were found with OOS violations, compared to 4.6 percent in 2012. There were 899 seat belt violations issued...

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Jun 1, 2007

Roadcheck * USA - To Emphasize Level 1 Inspections

CVSA Inspectors Also Will Check Safety Belts

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Sarah Godfrey -30 May 2007: -- The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance said its 2007 International Roadcheck program will focus on Level 1 comprehensive vehicle and driver inspections but also place additional emphasis on the use of safety belts... Stephen Keppler, CVSA’s director of policy and programs said, about half of the commercial drivers killed in accidents were not wearing safety belts in 2004, the most recent year for which data are available... CVSA said that during Roadcheck, scheduled for June 5-7, roughly 10,000 trained professionals will conduct inspections of commercial vehicles on major highways and other roads throughout North America... The alliance said that during Roadcheck, there are almost three times as many inspectors and law enforcement officers on the roads...

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May 14, 2007

* USA - Continent-wide Roadcheck is June 5-7

USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -14 May 2007: -- The 20th annual continent-wide Roadcheck, June 5-7, will focus on Level One truck inspections, the most comprehensive, as well as motor coach inspections and seat belt enforcement... Steve Keppler, director of policy and programs for the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, said 10,000 inspectors are expected at 1,000 sites for 72 continuous hours... The CVSA believes it’s time to increase seat belt enforcement. “We did a lot of outreach on seat belts the past two years,” Keppler said...

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