CVSA Brake Safety Week starts Sunday, Aug. 25 - Land Line

August 22, 2024

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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will hold its annual Brake Safety Week starting Sunday, Aug. 25, through Aug. 31.

Usual inspections emphasizing the importance of brake systems on commercial vehicles will be conducted. Brake-related out-of-service violations, as well as data on brake lining and brake pad violations will be reported.

Those violations can lead CVSA to order a vehicle out of service until the issues are corrected.

CVSA’s Brake Safety Week is next week, Aug. 25-31.Inspectors will conduct routine CMV inspections, focusing on brake systems and components. CMVs with out-of-service violations will be removed from roadways until those violations are corrected. https://t.co/ebgBSiJC2Z pic.twitter.com/r6h6PYGXSS

— CVSA (@CVSA) August 19, 2024

In 2023, nearly 90% of commercial motor vehicles inspected were found to have no brake-related critical violations.

Broken brake drums, loose air tanks, corroded holes in a spring brake housing and inoperative tractor protection valves were among the violations that automatically put commercial vehicles out of service during last year’s event.

CVSA said its Brake Safety Week is a regulatory compliance initiative as well as a safety awareness and outreach opportunity.

Additional information about the program is available at cvsa.org/programs/operation-airbrake. LL

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