Three-day inspections will not hamper truck supply chains, CVSA official says"Chill"

To those wringing their hands over the possible impact of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA's) upcoming three-day international vehicle safety inspection on delivery deadlines in an already-pressurized North American motor freight market, Collin B. Mooney, the group's executive director, has a one-word message: Chill.
Each year for the past 30, CVSA, which co-ordinates commercial vehicle roadside inspection activities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, has overseen 72 consecutive hours of roadside inspections. This year's event, scheduled for June 5 and 7, is designed, as all the others have been, to call attention to the importance of comprehensive vehicle and driver inspections to keep North American roads safe, Mooney said in a phone interview.
"In reality, we don't do anything different (during the three-day period than) during any day throughout the year," Mooney said. He added that there should be no impact on supply chain performance as a result of the three-day inspection cycle, believed to be the world's largest targeted safety probe of commercial motor vehicles. During the period, 17 trucks and buses are inspected, on average, every minute, according to CVSA estimates.
What is different this year is that, effective April 1, inspectors were authorized to place drivers or vehicles out of service if a truck was not equipped with an electronic logging device (ELD) to monitor a driver's hours-of-service compliance. Mooney acknowledged that conducting the inspections just two months after the start of ELD enforcement could be a factor in the event gaining more visibility than it has in past years