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Road Check 2007 is coming Jun 5, 6 and 7th. This is when CVSA works extra hard at inspecting trucks in the US, Canada and supposedly Mexico. But there seems to be an issue over last years Road Check numbers from Mexico.

Mexico’s numbers still not confirmed from  Roadcheck 2006

 North America’s largest annual inspection blitz for commercial vehicles
is scheduled for June 5, 6 and 7, but the big question is whether
Mexico will participate this year – not to mention the question of what
went on south of the border last year.

The Commercial Vehicle
Safety Alliance’s annual North American Roadcheck program involves
about 10,000 state, provincial and federal officers, and is conducted
at checkpoints and roadside stops throughout North America.

Mexico
reportedly participated last year, but CVSA’s statistics were solely
based on inspections conducted in the U.S. and Canada.

 Stephen Keppler, CVSA director of policy and programs, told Land Line Magazine that Mexico did participate in 2006, but Mexico’s data  was neither immediately available, nor published in a timely fashion.

Keppler explained that the system in the U.S. involves participation
by state and federal officials. In Canada, provincial officials make
the decisions. But Mexico’s participation, he said, is at the sole
discretion of its federal government.

In Roadcheck 2006, CVSA
inspectors in Canada and the U.S. conducted 60,357 truck and bus
inspections in 72 hours, according to CVSA.

Inspectors placed
5.6 percent of those drivers out of service, up from 4.4 percent in
2005. More than 57 percent of the cases where truckers were put out of
service were because of hours-of-service violations, CVSA officials
stated in a report.

– By David Tanner,  staff writer

If Mexican trucks are as safe as US and Canadian trucks, where are the numbers to prove it? With all the corruption in Mexico, could you trust any numbers coming from their inspectors anyway?