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BRAKES, FROM PAGE 10
Fifty Canadian and U.S. jurisdictions, as well as Mexico’s
National Guard and Ministry of Communications and Transportation,
participated in the 2021 Brake Safety Week. In
Canada, 1,903 CMVs were inspected with a brake-related
OOS rate of 15.4%. The OOS rate related to brakes in the
U.S. was 13.5% out of 28,694 CMVs inspected. In Mexico,
5,167 inspections were conducted with a brake-specific OOS
rate of 2.6%.
Combined, for a North American total, 35,764 CMVs were
inspected during the week. Twelve percent of those vehicles
were restricted from travel because inspectors found brakerelated
critical vehicle inspection item conditions and placed
those vehicles OOS, using CVSA’s North American Standard
OOS Criteria.
That also means 88% of the CMVs inspected throughout
North America during Brake Safety Week did not have brakerelated
critical vehicle inspection item violations. Vehicles
that did not have any vehicle and driver OOS conditions
during a Level I or Level V Inspection may have received a
CVSA decal, which is a visual indicator to inspectors that the
vehicle was recently inspected and had no critical vehicle inspection
item violations. The decal is valid for three months
following inspection.
In addition, during Brake Safety Week, inspectors in the
U.S., Canada, and Mexico recorded 5,667 brake hose chafing
violations. These are common brake-related violations,
whether OOS or not. Inspectors reported brake hose chafing
violations in five different categories (levels of chafing severity),
including two that are OOS conditions, and submitted
that data to CVSA.
QUALITY, FROM PAGE 9
Nationally, the study found America’s highway system is
incrementally improving in almost every category. However,
a 10-year average indicates the nation’s highway system
problems are concentrated in the bottom 10 states and, despite
spending more money, these worst-performing states
are finding it difficult to improve.
For example, 43% of the urban arterial primary mileage
in poor condition is in six states — California, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, and Rhode
Island. Approximately 25% of the rural interstate mileage
in poor condition is in just three states (Alaska, Colorado,
and Washington).
While a majority of states reduced their percentages of
structurally deficient bridges, five states — Rhode Island,
West Virginia, Iowa, South Dakota, and Pennsylvania —
still report more than 15% of their bridges as deficient.
For total spending, three states — Massachusetts, New
York, and New Jersey — spent more than $250,000 per
lane-mile of highway. In contrast, five states — Missouri,
South Carolina, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota
— spent less than $30,000 per mile of highway.
“States need to ensure their highway spending produces
safer roads, smoother pavement, fewer deficient bridges,
and less traffic congestion,” said the Annual Highway Report’s
Lead Author Baruch Feigenbaum. “The states with
the best overall rankings maintain better-than-average
highways with relatively efficient spending per mile.”
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