The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has updated the out-of-service criteria for 2024 with 11 new conditions ranging from small paperwork items to new quirks in the 20% rule for brake violations. The new conditions will take effect on April 1.
Overdrive caught up with Kerri Wirachowsky, CVSA’s director of inspection programs, to get a detailed breakdown of the new rules and an inside look at the debates between industry, regulators, and enforcement that shape how the annually published OOS guides the industry and promotes uniformity in compliance and enforcement throughout North America.
Starting with the “meat and potatoes” of the new rules, Wirachowsky pointed to new language around camshaft bushings in brake systems.
This resulted from “several situations during inspections where a missing bushing was discovered,” she said.
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According to Wirachowsky, “90% of the time” if the camshaft bushings are bad enough, that will manifest itself in some type of braking defect that the existing OOS criteria already cover, but not always.
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