The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced that over five days this summer, CMV inspectors in Canada and the U.S. conducted 4,629 inspections of commercial motor vehicles transporting hazardous materials/dangerous goods as part of its unannounced HM/DG inspection and enforcement initiative.

The inspections resulted in 1,169 HM/DG violations, of which 598 (51%) were out-of-service violations. Forty-five jurisdictions participated in this year's HM/DG Road Blitz – 10 Canadian provinces and 35 U.S. states. Enforcement personnel inspected 1,469 non-bulk packages/small means of containment, 2,522 bulk cargo tank packages/large means of containment and 447 other bulk packages/other large means of containment.

In the U.S., the most common HM violations were for non-bulk placarding, bulk package marking, bulk placarding, bulk packaging, and failure to have emergency response information in the vehicle.