Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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34 commercial carrier journal | january 2018 BUSINESS | CSA reports similar dynamics in his state, which like California is also in the inspection-intensity top 10. at's particularly true during all-hands-on-deck events such as the annual Roadcheck inspection blitz. "Especially during Roadcheck, if someone volunteers for a Level 1 inspection, we'll do it if we can accommodate you," says Preston, who cites the benefit many fleets offer drivers for getting a clean Level 1 (oen $100 or more) as fueling this trend. Nance says within CHP, the commercial motor vehicle enforcement unit also main- tains an outreach program: the Commercial Industry Education Program. "We go out to the carriers and do education at the terminals" on "what they can do to improve and make sure they're working with us." With the advent of the CSA program in late 2010, "every violation … on an inspection report" was newly given weight toward carrier safety scores, Mooney says. Carriers of all sizes turned more focus to reducing inspection viola- tions. "An increased focus on mechanical fitness and driver certification" resulted, he says. HOS compliance seems to have made that turn, too, as more carriers have begun using electronic logging devices, Mooney says. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, total HOS violations fell in raw numbers and as a share of all violations. "Violations declining across the board makes sense," he says. at's another reality unearthed in 2016 numbers. While overall inspections rose, total violations fell in CCJ's analysis by 5.6 percent. Preston concurs with that notion, particularly relative to Level 3 inspections within Arizona, which are likely only to unearth HOS or credentials violations (like an invalid/ outdated medical card) if not occurring alongside a stop for a moving-type violation such as speeding. "We've seen a big drop in Level 3 inspection violations," he says. at's partly a result of so many carriers' turn to e-logs and the virtual elimination in such operations of so-called "form and manner" HOS violations, the largest category of hours violation. HOS violations in 2016 broadly were down by 15 percent compared to 2014 when they reached a recent-years peak. Unless a driver using e-logs obviously is over hours or has disconnected his ELD in the past eight days, there isn't a lot roadside can argue with other than finding evidence to prove inaccurate accounting of nondriving time – a Go online to CCJDigital.com/CSA to see state-by- state variations in inspection intensity, violation priorities and other metrics in both mapped views and a download report that ranks all 48 continental states by intensity of focus on various violation cat- egories, violations per inspection, clean inspections and more. All inspection and violation data was mined from the federal system by RigDig Business Intelligence, RigDigBI.com. MOST INTENSE ENFORCEMENT * Maryland 16 California 16 Texas 10 New Mexico 10 2 Arizona 8 1 Washington 8 1 Kentucky 6 Indiana 6 8 Mississippi 6 1 Missouri 6 7 LEAST INTENSE ENFORCEMENT 1 North Dakota 1 Idaho 2 Wyoming 2 Virginia 2 Oklahoma 2 Massachusetts 3 Wisconsin 3 Minnesota 3 Michigan 3 Vermont More than 60 percent of inspections conducted at roadside. More than 60 percent of inspections conducted at a fixed location. INSPECTIONS PER LANE-MILE In 2016, total inspections counted by CCJ sister company RigDig Business Intelligence (RigDigBI.com) rose by more than 130,000 to 3,264,342 inspections, a 4.4 percent rise over 2015 levels. As the list illustrates, there was considerable variation at the state level. RigDig mines data from all inspections of trucks and drivers for carriers with an associated U.S. Department of Transportation number. *Arrows indicate the number of places the state's truck enforcement unit moved up or down the rankings in 2016.