Enforcement drive in southwestern Ontario puts almost 50% of vehicles OOS

If anyone has a moment can you educate me? What is the type of thing that will put you OOS in this type of blitz? Almost 50% is a scary number, but what is it based on? It feels a bit like a news report that's missing all the details.
 
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Brenda said:
If anyone has a moment can you educate me? What is the type of thing that will put you OOS in this type of blitz? Almost 50% is a scary number, but what is it based on? It feels a bit like a news report that's missing all the details.
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Wouldn’t, or shouldn’t an operator of over the road vehicles be aware of what items could place them out of service? From the article, it sounds like there are quite a few operators who don’t know. We all hear stories that some inspectors can be overly picky, but the article does say that 55 warnings for “minor infractions” were issued.
 
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Enforcement will place a commercial vehicle out of service based on the CVSA OOS criteria. You can buy the whole book here:
cvsa.org

Out-of-Service Criteria

The North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria (OOSC) is the pass-fail criteria for inspections. The purpose of the criteria is to identify critical violations. Those violations render the driver…
cvsa.org cvsa.org

For Ontario you can rely on the Schedule 1. Any major defect will result in an OOS.

e-Laws | Ontario.ca

www.ontario.ca www.ontario.ca

Add into it any HOS violations that shows you have no hours to work or administrative issues like licensing.
 
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loaders said:
Wouldn’t, or shouldn’t an operator of over the road vehicles be aware of what items could place them out of service? From the article, it sounds like there are quite a few operators who don’t know. We all hear stories that some inspectors can be overly picky, but the article does say that 55 warnings for “minor infractions” were issued.
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If Dot /MTO etc wants they can and will find something wrong with a brand new truck and trailer. Because there is always some line touching something etc. That being said in these blitzes it is usually landscapers paving crews etc that get yanked in not ABC the biggest carrier in Canada, They do a small town blitz after all the smaller contractors etc and yes most of them have nary a clue to the rules = easy points and high OOS rates in the blitz. Is their lots of junk carriers running the roads yep just about any garbage scow but they wont climb under them to check very often.
 
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As is usually the case in any type of law enforcement, the inspectors go after the “low hanging fruit” first. Inspecting every Tom, Dick and Harry with a truck travelling on the secondary and back roads in S. Ontario will sure drive up the OOS numbers.
 
These numbers need to be shown to the public so they can justify what they do. A signal light out on a trailer is considered a OOS. Pull it out play with the connector it works off you go but on paper and for their polls to put in articles like this and to justify what they do they dont tell you what the OOS are. For the amount of time spent no one has put down 20 percent brakes, 30 percent tires, 15 percent lighting ect. Best how many did they tow out and pull the plates is more interesting!
 
Saw one get pulled over here. A pickup pulling a small trailer containing landscaping equipment. He was pulled over near a red light so I could hear a bit of the exchange. ..i.e. " it doesn't have brakes but I just use it around town".. I had to get going when the light changed, but I don't think it went well for him after that..
 
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• Ever seen a 1999 Freightliner tandem drive pulling a quad scrap metal hauler down the 400?

• How do you think people cover 200$ cross-city FTL?

• Ever seen an "owner operator" doing maintenance on a Walmart parking lot?
 
Mario said:
These numbers need to be shown to the public so they can justify what they do. A signal light out on a trailer is considered a OOS. Pull it out play with the connector it works off you go but on paper and for their polls to put in articles like this and to justify what they do they dont tell you what the OOS are. For the amount of time spent no one has put down 20 percent brakes, 30 percent tires, 15 percent lighting ect. Best how many did they tow out and pull the plates is more interesting!
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Usually the reports do show how many plates were pulled - I'm surprised it didn't. You're right though, some repairs are quick and easy and you're on the way, but no longer in violation and therefore supposedly safe. I'm glad they're doing it; it needs to be more often. Once a week would be nice. For us that have excellent maintenance programs and great drivers it would be a plus to see our diligence is worth it.
 
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