Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

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Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
The Importance of Being An Active Member
Presented by Captain Steve Vaughn CVSA President
Visit CVSA at booth 1705
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Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

• Vision
• An environment free of commercial vehicle
  accidents and incidents
• Mission
• Achieve uniformity and reciprocity of commercial
  vehicle inspections and enforcement activities
  throughout North America through effective motor
  carrier, driver, vehicle and cargo safety
  standards, compliance, education, and enforcement

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Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

• PAST... An organization built on a solid
  foundation of CMV safety
• PRESENT Leveraging our infrastructure of
  people and knowledge
• FUTURE. Expanded delivery of timely
  information and services that will directly
  reduce fatalities, crashes, and incidents

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Roadside Inspections

• Over 2 million conducted annually across the
  continent
• 6 different inspection types
• 8,000 enforcement state and provincial officers
  deployed -- more on the way
• Over 1,400 fixed facilities

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Roadside Inspection Statistics1999 Safetynet Data

• Trucks -- Vehicles
• 2,080,185 inspections
• 3,278,021 violations
• 661,051 OOS violations
• 25.4 -- Brake other
• 20.3 -- Other
• 18.8 -- Lights
• 11.2 -- Brake adjustment
• 11.0 -- Tires
• 7.0 -- Suspension
• 6.3 -- Load securement

• Trucks -- Drivers
• 2,080,185 inspections
• 1,604,164 violations
• 233,370 OOS violations
• 36.3 -- No log/Log not current
• 31.2 -- Other
• 15.3 -- 10/15 hour rules
• 7.8 -- False logs
• 6.1 -- 60/70/80 hour rules
• 3.3 -- Disqualified driver

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Roadside Inspection Statistics 1999 Safetynet
Data

• Hazardous Materials
• 126, 805 inspections
• 5.7 of yearly total
• 62,237 violations
• 14,524 OOS violations
• 33.3 -- Improper placarding
• 25.1 -- Shipping papers
• 20.5 -- Improper blocking/bracing
• 18.4 -- Other
• 2.7 -- Using a Non-Specification package

• FY 1999 AVERAGES
• 24.7 OOS Rate -- Vehicles
• Brakes constitute 36.6 of Truck OOS Violations
• 8.4 OOS Rate -- Drivers
• HOS constitute 65.5 of Truck OOS violations
• Hazardous Materials
• 20.8 OOS Rate -- Vehicles
• 4.8 OOS Rate -- Drivers

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The New CVSA

• Expanding Our Sphere of Influence

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Our Membership

• Law Enforcement Officials
• Trucking Companies
• Bus Companies
• Truck Manufacturers
• Bus Manufacturers
• Insurance Companies
• Trailer Manufacturers
• Safety Products/Accessory Companies
• Rest Stop Facilities
• Private Fleets
• Owner-Operators
• Industry Associations

• Parts/Supplies Companies
• Engineering Firms
• Law Firms
• Law Enforcement Equipment Companies
• Industry Journals
• Research Organizations
• Consulting Companies
• Intelligent Transportation System Companies
• Transportation Software Companies
• Academia

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Legislative/Regulatory Activity

• Senate House Testimony
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Safety Auditor Certification
• New Carrier Entrant Program
• Commercial Drivers License
• DOT Safety Goal Achievement Planning
• Part 350 Rulemaking (MCSAP)
• Hours of Service
• Single State Registration System
• Uniform Hazardous Materials Permit Program

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On-going ActivitiesA snapshot

• 11 active committees, 3 adhoc committees in 2000
• Uniform Inspection Procedures and OOS Criteria
• Expanded Government Affairs Activities
• Provide Technical Educational Services
• Assist in ITS Deployment
• Assess CMV Safety Technology
• Develop and Disseminate Publications CVSA
  Online
• North American Inspectors Championship
• Spring Workshop Annual Conference
• DOE Contract Initiatives
• Provide THE Forum for Safety Dialogue

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Enhanced Communication Methods

• Print Media
• Electronic Media
• Education and Training

CVSA Inspection Familiarization Seminars
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New ProgramsDelivering more for members

• Professional Development
• CDL State Self-Assessments
• Teaming Agreements
• Increased Legislative Activity
• More on the way..

• Brake Safety Symposium
• Roadcheck 2001
• Operation Air Brake
• Cargo Securement Standards Training
• Performance Based Safety Planning

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Roadcheck 2001

• June 5-7, 2001
• CVSA leading the way
• Vigilant in our safety enforcement programs
• Visibility and showcase
• success
• Educate
• 50 by 2010
• Partnering for
• the future

...and our Industry partners
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Roadcheck 2000 DataA snapshot

• 42,700 inspections were conducted
• 36,585 were Level Is
• 11,181 OOS vehicles
• 26.2 of vehicles inspected
• 2,426 OOS drivers
• 5.7 of drivers inspected

• 20,648 OOS vehicle viols.
• 1.85 per out-of-service vehicle
• 4,019 OOS driver viols.
• 1.7 per out-of-service driver
• 81,206 viols. discovered
• 1.9 per inspection

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Roadcheck 2000 DataA snapshot

• 10,611 of 20,648 vehicle OOS viols. (51) were
  for brakes
• followed by lights, tires wheels, load
  securement, and suspension
• 1,859 of 4,019 driver OOS viols. (46) were for
  HOS
• followed by registration, and license
• 25,097 CVSA decals were issued
• 4,524 HM inspections were conducted
• 1,078 (23.8) vehicles OOS
• 151 (3.3) drivers OOS
• 433 motor coach inspections were conducted
• 92 (21.2) vehicles OOS
• 11 (2.5) drivers OOS

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Operation Air Brake What is it?

• An International Selective Traffic Enforcement
  Program designed to...
• Promote and reinforce the need for drivers to
  check and adjust air-brake systems
• Educate drivers on the seriousness of operating a
  heavy vehicle with inadequate brakes.
• Sponsors CVSA, FMCSA and CCMTA
• Participants
• Enforcement Agencies across Canada and the United
  States (Puerto Rico), Traffic Safety Agencies,
  Industry Stakeholders/Associations

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Operation Air BrakeCampaign Focus

• Three components
• Enforcement
• strict enforcement of brake rules essential
• brake check days
• Promotional Items
• Brake Checker - Key Chain
• Decal
• Pamphlet
• Scale signs

• Awareness Activities
• Roadcheck
• farm progress
• truck rodeos
• carrier awareness
• driver/carrier meetings
• driver appreciation day

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Operation Air BrakeOut-of-Service Defects
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Operation Air Brake

• Showing results
• Effective in reducing OOS rates for brakes
• Support is growing
• Will continue into the future
• We want to stop this...

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Professional Development

• A work in progress since 1997
• Adhoc Committee established 09/00
• Mission
• To examine the Alliances future role and
  approach to continuing education, training,
  and awareness and offer recommendations to the
  leadership on direction
• Examining several provisions in MCSIA-99
• Motor Carrier Safety Auditors
• New Entrant Program

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Professional Development

• Committee is to report back to leadership in May
  2001
• This is an important role for CVSA -- to provide
  the membership and the safety community with the
  tools to increase CMV safety awareness,
  compliance, and reduce crashes

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CDL State Self Assessment

• Law-Enforcement-Led, Safety-Driven Effort to.
• Reduce truck and bus involved crashes...by
  taking a results and performance based approach
  to looking at the effectiveness of State driver
  evaluation processes
• Conduct a bottoms up approach...taking on a
  unique state-level public safety dimension
• Enable a proactive method of operation against
  drivers in reducing truck and bus crashes

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The Need

• Make the CDL Program more safety and
  crash-data driven
• Strengthen the cause and effect linkage
• driver behavior (citations - convictions -
  withdrawals - dispositions) and crashes
• Identify and Fix Leaks and broken Triggers
• Reevaluate processes and systems for effective
  commercial driver monitoring
• Identify and remove unsafe drivers from the road

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CDL State Self Assessment

• Objectives
• Develop a series of safety-driven, controlled
  measurements of the states processes for
  assessing and monitoring commercial driver
  performance
• Develop a Tool Kit for the assessment and
  monitoring of BOTH state and driver performance

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Importance of Being Active in CVSA
Knowledge
Enhance Safety
Network
Education
Relationships
Forum
Representation
Information
Have a voice
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We Need Your Participation!

• No one has all the answers
• Be a part of the solution
• Technological advances are altering business
  processes and vehicle design, components,
  operation, and maintenance
• Safety is a collaborative responsibility
• Knowledge and information sharing will enhance
  safety and reduce crashes and incidents

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Take advantage of what CVSA has to offer be
informed, be active and most of all be safe.
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CVSA Spring Workshop
Join us!
May 12-17, 2001 New Orleans, LA Hyatt Regency