Inspections/violations trends for 2022 show clearly what the COVID-19 pandemic did to state and federal roadside inspection programs, according to a decade-long annual CSA's Data Trail investigation by CCJ's sister publication Overdrive.
With very few exceptions, inspection numbers took a nosedive in 2020 as law enforcement departments and truckers themselves sought to limit person-to-person contact. Some states continued that trend in 2021, perhaps to the delight of fleets and drivers seeking further relief from the risk of this one of a myriad potential delays to any haul.
Longtime independent Mike "Mustang" Crawford noted he'd been inspected just a single time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, in Arizona, where a minor, and questionable, violation was encoded as a result for his computer equipment and toolboxes' supposed obstruction of his view forward and to the right out of the windows. Aside from that, "I have gone through areas where they’re famous for inspecting you," he said, including "certain places in Texas, the super-coop in Illinois on I-55 north of St. Louis, north of Springfield on the southbound side of I-55," and many others, without a pull-in to speak of.
Understand your inspection risk with these national rankings for inspection intensity, highly variable across the United States, as well as where an inspection is most likely to result in a violation in this report from the editors of Overdrive and CCJ in partnership with sister data company RigDig.
Understand your inspection risk with these national rankings for inspection intensity, highly variable across the United States, as well as where an inspection is most likely to result in a violation in this report from the editors of Overdrive and CCJ in partnership with sister data company RigDig.
Download the report to access state-by-state insights on:
• Moving violations, such as speeding
• Hours of service
• Brakes, lights and other vehicle violations
• Clean inspections
• Violations per inspection
