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Many readers feel little change in clean inspections

While more clean inspections overall may well be the reality for inspections recorded in the federal Motor Carrier Management and Information System database, Overdrive’s audience of mostly owner-operators is more skeptical.

A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise

In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.

Terminal systems still lack pickup time visibility

Terminal operators across the country are beginning to realize the value, if not the necessity, of establishing trucker appointment systems so they can manage cargo flow and mitigate congestion. Photo credit: Shutterstock.

NEWARK — Terminal operators on both coasts have made great strides building trucker appointment systems that improve cargo flow…

CVSA asks for updates to inspection-report processes for the digital age

Many state jurisdictions, CVSA says, ” do not have the manpower to follow up on unreturned inspection reports. For these jurisdictions, the practice of receiving returned inspection reports creates a paperwork burden with no clear value or purpose. Meanwhile, motor carriers spend time and resources certifying, returning and storing inspection reports that are not being used by many of the recipients.”