North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria Handbook and Pictorial Edition

Overview

• Identifies Critical Vehicle Inspection Items following a roadside inspection
• Details criteria that can prohibit a motor carrier or operator from driving or operating a commercial motor vehicle for a specified period of time or until the condition is corrected
• Includes a full set of CVSA Inspection Schematics:
  • North American Standard Level I Inspection Procedure
  • North American Standard Level I Passenger Vehicle Inspection Procedure
  • North American Standard Hazardous Materials/Transportation of Dangerous Goods Inspection Procedure
  • North American Standard Cargo Tank and Other Bulk Packaging's Inspection Procedure
  • Mexican CDL: Licencia Federal de Conductor
  • ABS Inspection Procedure: Canadian Field Reference
  • ABS Inspection Procedure: U.S. Field Reference
  • North American Standard Inspection Procedure for Performance-Based Brake Testing
• Spiral bound, laminated
• 2023 edition is effective April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024

2023 Updates

Key changes contained in the April 1, 2023 edition of CVSA's North American Standard Out of Service Criteria Handbook:

1. Placing a driver out of service for 24 hours for a drug violation (same as alcohol)
2. False logs any time in the 8-day window will no longer result in an automatic out-of-service period, and instead will be based how recent the violation was and if it was an attempt to disguise an hours-of-service violation.
3. Updated information on when connecting rod and sway assembly defects are and are not an out-of-service violation.
4. Removed having a fuel tank capable of being filled to over 95 percent capacity as an out-of-service violation

NOTE: The 2023 printing of CVSA's North American Standard Out of Service Criteria Handbook contained an error. See letter from CVSA. All handbooks will come with a correction label to apply to the impacted page.