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CVSA Roadcheck Kicks Off Tomorrow

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance kicks off its annual Roadcheck tomorrow. For 72 continuous hours, inspectors and law enforcement officers will be conducting the Roadcheck, which mobilizes thousands of federal, state, provincial and local inspectors to more than 1,500 locations across the continent to conduct comprehensive North American Standard (NAS) Level I Inspections and other related roadside enforcement activities.

The American Trucking Associations and representatives from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and other agencies will kick off the event with an international press conference at FedEx Field in Landover, Md.

"ATA has supported CVSA's annual Roadcheck since its inception and has worked cooperatively with CVSA to determine emphasis areas," said Rob Abbott, ATA's vice president of safety policy. "Roadcheck is a very beneficial program since it spotlights the importance of roadside enforcement and focuses limited state and local resources on unsafe operators. ATA looks forward to this year's Roadcheck results which we anticipate will reflect the industry's improved safety record, as they have consistently done in years past."

According to ATA, inspectors target trucks and drivers for inspection based upon the safety record or previous inspection records of the motor carrier, the driver, or upon the observation skills of the trained inspectors.

Last year's enforcement blitz focused on the North American Standard Level I inspection, and with 9,700 CVSA and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration certified inspectors at 2,148 locations, 57,013 of the 72,782 inspections were NAS Level I. This was a total inspection increase of 7.1 percent from 2008 and an 8.9 percent boost in NAS Level I inspections from 2008.

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