With the drop in inspection numbers and various state truck enforcement units that are themselves having trouble with staffing issues, complicated by the results of COVID-19, the roadside enforcement community believes that automated inspections could be a significant means of building back up those numbers. The CVSA has their own belief that the technology could be potentially useful as the inspections themselves. The Steps being taken to a future of many roadside inspections, are themselves likely to be more automated than anything that ever happened before. The developments that have been made on the regulatory front is likely to turn the inspection standard into a true likelihood.
The Benefits Are Plenty
As Truckers with nothing to keep a secret are in turn those who will benefit from plenty of clean inspections.
However, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association themselves have shows several concerns regarding “automated surveillance” via inspections. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and their moves with the CSA Safety Measurement System and belief to redo the carriers’ safety ratings while many other watchers have been fearful of a data-driven method to ratings which would likely show faults for the smaller fleets.
Independent owner-operators and small fleets see the CSA SMS, All while the automated inspections have shown what other options there could be all sorts of changes.
CVSA had adopted the Level 8 electronic inspection standard as of 2017 There’s a theory that the inspection would go without the intervention of a trooper through a roadside and weigh station.
The Level 8 standard for automated inspections have called for in particular electronic validation of the operator, driver’s license and class endorsements and even current hours of service status and compliance information.
