Heavy Duty Trucking, March 2020
AVOIDING BRAKE RELATED OUT OF SERVICE INCIDENTS Braking system preventive maintenance is a driver technician success opportunity of service declarations at roadside inspections 2019 s annual Roadcheck week by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance although focused on steering systems was no exception with more than 28 of reported outof service events related to brake systems Any out of service declaration is not only inconvenient but also has the added downside of impacting CSA scores And given the attention on driver hours of service under new electronic logging device rules downtime due to a roadside inspection includes the penalties of delaying service to a customer and complicating hours of service all over a largely preventable occurrence So how can a fleet especially one with trucks operating across a wide geographic territory prevent or reduce the possibility of its trucks being sidelined by a roadside inspection event Review your PM process The first step is to ensure that a fleets first line of defense preventive maintenance fully embraces the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations Rule 39617 on braking By Bob Stanton Contributing Editor ecause most fleets conduct robust brake maintenance brake issues are more likely to be discovered by a roadside inspector than at any other time resulting B in totally inconvenient largely unnecessary expensive service delays But if brake maintenance processes are solid why are so many trucks being sidelined by inspectors Inspection statistics show brake systems consistently are the biggest culprit for out HDT MARCH 2020 60 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM PHOTO JIMPARK A good place to start is making sure youre checking the same things roadside inspectors are
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