Coronavirus | Covid-19 & Law Changing Circumstances for The Trucking Industry Delivering Goods
Coronavirus COVID-19 Update Courtesy of Coleman Vacuum Systems Inc. The most dreaded event of the year for many truck drivers has been put on hold for the first time ever, thanks to increasing demand for them as the Coronavirus pushes shoppers to panic buy and hospitals to load up on more supplies. The International Roadcheck, typically scheduled for early summer, has been postponed "to later in the year," the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced recently. The CVSA is an intergovernmental agency with local, state, and federal commercial-driver safety officials from Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Each year, the CVSA conducts a 72-hour "blitz" in which 13,000-plus inspectors pull over truck drivers and assess them for following key points of safety laws for commercial drivers. In the US and Canada, the CVSA said the 2019 blitz saw 67,072 inspections uncovering 12,019 critical vehicle problems and 2,784 driver violations. Truck Driver Update...