# Presentation: 144669

## Inspections, Repairs and Maintenance

## Who Must Comply?

*Every motor carrier and its:*
- Officers
- Drivers
- Agents
- Representatives
- Employees

## General Requirements

- Every carrier shall systematically inspect,
- repair and maintain all vehicles under its
- control.

## Recordkeeping

- Motor carriers must maintain the following information for every vehicle they have for 30 days or more:
-   Identifying information
-   Schedule of inspections
-   Records of tests conducted    on buses with push-out    windows, emergency doors    and marking lights

## Recordkeeping

- Records must be retained for one year at the location where the vehicle is garaged, and for six months after the vehicle leaves the carrier’s control.

## Roadside Inspection Reports

- Any driver who receives an inspection report must deliver it to the motor carrier
- An official of the motor carrier must examine the report and ensure that any violations are corrected

## Roadside Inspection Reports

- Within 15 days, the carrier must sign and return the completed report to certify that all violations have been corrected
- A copy of the report must be retained for 12 months

## Post-Trip Inspection Report

- Every driver is responsible for preparing a daily, post-trip inspection report at the end of each driving day
- The report must list any condition that would affect the safety of operation

## Post-Trip Inspection Report Checklist

**Post-Trip Inspection Report Checklist**

- Service brakes
- Parking brake
- Steering mechanism
- Lighting devices and reflectors
- Tires

- Horn
- Windshield wipers
- Rearview mirrors
- Coupling devices
- Wheels and rims
- Emergency equipment

## Periodic Inspection

- Every vehicle must be inspected at least once every 12 months
- A copy of the periodic inspection report must be retained by the motor carrier for 14 months from the report date
- Documentation of the most recent inspection must be kept in the vehicle

## Inspector Qualification

- Motor carriers must ensure that persons
- performing annual inspections:
- Understand the inspection standards
- Be able to identify defective components
- Have knowledge and proficiency in methods, procedures and tools

## Inspector Training or Experience

- Inspectors may have gained experience or training by:
- Completing a State or Federal training program or earning a State qualifying certificate in CMV safety inspections
- A combination of other training or experience totaling at least a year

## Evidence of Qualifications

- Motor carriers must retain evidence of an
- inspector’s qualifications until one year
- after the inspector ceases to perform
- inspections for the carrier.

## Periodic Inspection Equivalent

- The motor carrier may meet periodic
- inspection qualifications through:
- State or other jurisdiction’s roadside inspection program
- Self-inspection by qualified employee
- Third party inspection by qualified individual

## Brake Inspector Qualification

- The motor carrier is responsible for ensuring that all inspections, maintenance, repairs and service to brakes of CMVs comply with FMCSA regulations
- The carrier must ensure that the employees responsible for brake inspection, maintenance, service or repairs meet minimum brake inspector qualifications

## Understand and be able to perform the brake service and inspection
Know the methods, procedures, tools and equipment needed
Be qualified to perform brake service or inspection by training and/or experience

- Know the methods, procedures, tools and equipment needed
- Be qualified to perform brake service or inspection by training and/or experience

**Brake Inspector Qualification**

## Qualifying Brake Training or Experience

*Includes successful completion of:*
- A State or Federal agency or union training program
- A State-approved training program
- Training that led to attainment of a State qualifying certificate
- One year of brake-related training, experience or a combination of both

## Maintaining Evidence of Brake Inspector Qualifications

- Motor carriers must maintain evidence of brake inspector qualification at the principal place of business or the location where the inspector works
- Evidence must be retained for the period during which the brake inspector is employed in that capacity, and for one year thereafter

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