Equipment Package: Roadside Safety and Security Inspection
Description:
This equipment package supports the roadside safety inspection process. It reads on-board safety data at mainline speeds to rapidly screen the vehicle and driver and accesses historical safety data after identifying vehicles at mainline speeds or while stopped at the roadside. The capabilities to process safety data and issue pull-in messages or provide warnings to the driver, carrier, and enforcement agencies are also provided. It includes hand held devices to rapidly inspect the vehicle and driver. Results of screening and summary safety inspection data are stored and maintained.
Since a vehicle may cross jurisdictional boundaries during a trip, this equipment package supports the concept of a last clearance event record carried on the vehicle tag. The last clearance event record reflects the results of the roadside verification action. For example, if the vehicle is pulled over in State A and undergoes credential, weight, and safety checks, the results of the clearance process are written to the vehicle s tag. If the vehicle continues the trip and passes a roadside station in State B, the State B station has access to the results of the previous pull-in because it can read the last clearance event record written by the State A roadside station.
Included In:
Roadside Safety Inspection System (Aspen)
Functional Requirements
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The roadside check facility equipment shall receive information concerning commercial vehicles and freight equipment approaching a facility that are being pulled in for safety inspections. 2 -
The roadside check facility equipment shall receive the safety inspection and status information from the commercial vehicle administration center to include information such as safety ratings, inspection summaries, and violation summaries. Corresponds to the safety portion of CVISN "snapshots." 3 -
The roadside check facility equipment shall provide an interface to inspectors in the field to allow them to safety inspection data including overrides to the pull-in decisions made by the system. 4 -
The roadside check facility equipment shall request and input electronic safety data from the commercial vehicle's electronic tag data. This includes driver logs, on-board safety data, safety inspection records, commercial vehicle breach information, as well as freight equipment information. 5 -
The roadside check facility equipment shall send a pass/pull-in notification to the commercial vehicle and its driver based on the information received from the vehicle, the administration center, and the inspector. The message may be sent to the on-board equipment in the commercial vehicle or transmitted to the driver using equipment such as dynamic message signs, red-green lights, flashing signs, etc. 6 -
The roadside check facility equipment shall receive information about a breach or tamper event on a commercial vehicle or its attached freight equipment which includes identity, type of breach, location, and time. 7 -
The roadside check facility equipment shall forward results of the roadside safety inspections to the commercial vehicle administration center.
