CVSA

— A five-day blitz of surprise inspections for 4,629 commercial vehicles transporting hazardous materials and dangerous goods revealed improper placarding as the top cause for violations issued, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance [CVSA] announced. Inspectors during a roadside initiative that ran June 9-13 across the United States and Canada discovered 1,169 HM/DG violations, of which 598, or 51%, were out-of-service violations. Forty-five jurisdictions — 35 states and all 10 Canadian provinces — participated in the inspection campaign, but the vast majority of vehicles inspected were in the U.S. In total, CVSA inspectors examined nearly 7,300 HM/DG packages across nine hazardous categories.