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Lyndon Finney, Editor
CLEANING OUT THE NOTEBOOK WHILE
WONDERING WHO’S GOING TO WIN THE
2018 WORLD SERIES AND THE 2019
SUPER BOWL. WELL, NOT REALLY …
The results are in on the so-called “unannounced”
Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s brake
safety initiative April 25 and the results are a
bit on the scary side.
The CVSA said more than 13 percent, or nearly 1,600
CMVs, were sidelined as a result of the inspection.
The safety initiative encompassed 52 U.S. and Canadian
jurisdictions and 11,531 total inspections, with the
U.S. conducting 10,074 CMV inspections and Canada
holding 1,457 inspections.
Fourteen percent of CMVs were placed out-of-service
in the U.S. for brake violations and 12.4 percent were
sidelined in Canada for brake problems.
The good news is that 86.2 percent of the total number
of CMVs inspected had no critical brake-related
violations, CVSA reported.
In all, 8,128 air-braked trucks and tractors were
identified as requiring anti-lock braking systems and
10.2 percent had ABS violations.
Also, 5,331 trailers were found to require ABS, with
14.3 percent having ABS violations.
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration’s Large Truck Crash Causation Study,
large truck crashes in which the braking capacity was
critical were 50 percent more likely to
have a brake violation.
Not alarming, you say?
Consider this.
Depending on who’s providing the
information, there are 3-3.5 million
trucks traveling highways in the U.S.
We’ll land in the middle — 3.25
million.
Statisticians talk about statistically
significant survey data based on a
random sample, so we think you
would have to call the “unannounced”
brake safety initiative a random event.
So, do the math.
Fourteen percent of 3.25 million is
455,000, so there may be that many
trucks out there with brake violations.
That’s why it’s scary.
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