09-019-VEH: OOSC, Partes II y III, Declaraciones de política

Fecha de registro	4 de abril de 2009
Número de asunto	09-019-VEH
Nombre	John E. Harrison
Agencia	Georgia Department of Public Safety
Dirección	P.O. Box 611Lavonia, GA, 30553United StatesVer en el mapa (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Teléfono	404-357-9899
Fax	(706) 356-5308
Correo electrónico	[email protected]
Comité	Comité de Vehículos
Estado	Cerrado
Resumen del asunto	La práctica habitual en el sector ha sido que los defectos/infracciones que requieren múltiples casos o un porcentaje específico para alcanzar el nivel de OOS (Fuera de Servicio) deben repararse antes de que el vehículo vuelva a estar en servicio. Sin embargo, en el OOSC no se describe ninguna declaración ni requisito al respecto.
Justificación o necesidad	Se han producido varios incidentes en los que el operador protestó contra esta práctica comercial y, en efecto, exigió reparar todos los frenos defectuosos excepto uno, de modo que el número total de frenos defectuosos se mantuviera por debajo del umbral del 20 %. Esta situación se da con mayor frecuencia en el OOSC con un límite del 20 % de frenos defectuosos, pero existen otras áreas en el OOSC donde esto podría aplicarse (por ejemplo, luces de freno, acoplamiento, fijaciones de ruedas, placas HM/DG, números de identificación HM/DG, etc.). En los casos en que esto ha ocurrido, no se ha podido encontrar ninguna política escrita sobre esta práctica comercial.
Solicitud de acción	Recomiendo que el Comité de Vehículos examine este asunto en consulta con el Comité de materiales peligrosos y elabore un texto que se incluya en las Declaraciones de Política de las Partes II y III del OOSC.
Medidas adoptadas por el comité	This issue was handled in conjunction with 09-028-VEH. Discussion around these issues resulted in 3 issues that needed to be addressed to assist inspectors and industry on requirements when vehicles are placed out-of-service. 1. What needs to be repaired to return to service, 2 The prohibition against repairing an OOS condition by creating a violation, 3 That vehicles in a combination declared OOS that have none of the OOS conditions, can be returned to service immediately. This change also affects Operational Policy 5, "Required Repairs for Out-Of-Service Notices", and "Inspection Guidance" Frequently Asked Questions - #2 (approved in Louisville). This issue was also given to the Hazardous Materials Committee to develop a policy for Part III as well to deal with the same issue.Revised Wording: OUT-OF-SERVICE: Authorized personnel shall declare and mark "out-of-service" any motor vehicle which by reason of its mechanical condition or loading would be likely to cause an accident or breakdown. An "out-of-service vehicle" sticker shall be used to mark vehicles "out-of-service." No motor carrier shall require nor shall any person operate, or any inspector release any commercial motor vehicle declared and marked "out-of-service" until all repairs required by the "out-of-service notice" have been satisfactorily completed to where a violation no longer exists.When a vehicle is declared out-of-service for a condition resulting from an accumulation of violations, all violations that contributed to the specific out-of-service condition must be repaired (e.g. a vehicle, or vehicles in combination declared out-of-service for 20 percent defective brake violations must have all the 20 percent defective brake violations repaired prior to being released; or, a vehicle declared out-of-service for two tires at less than 1/32 inch (.8mm) tread depth must have both tire violations repaired prior to the vehicle being released, etc).An out-of-service condition cannot be corrected by creating a new violation (e.g. if a vehicle is declared out-of-service for three missing wheel fasteners on one wheel, wheel fasteners from other wheels cannot be removed to correct this out-of-service condition, etc).When vehicles in combination are declared out-of-service for 20 percent defective brake violations, any vehicle within the combination that does not contain a brake violation that contributed to the 20 percent defective brake out-of-service condition is allowed to proceed providing it does not contain any other out-of-service conditions.No person shall remove the "out-of-service vehicle" sticker from any motor vehicle prior to completion of all repairs required by the "out-of-service notice." Executive Committee approved the amendment.

Fecha de registro

4 de abril de 2009

Número de asunto

09-019-VEH

Nombre

John E. Harrison

Agencia

Georgia Department of Public Safety

Dirección

P.O. Box 611Lavonia, GA, 30553United StatesVer en el mapa

Teléfono

404-357-9899

Fax

(706) 356-5308

Correo electrónico

[email protected]

Comité

Comité de Vehículos

Estado

Cerrado

Resumen del asunto

La práctica habitual en el sector ha sido que los defectos/infracciones que requieren múltiples casos o un porcentaje específico para alcanzar el nivel de OOS (Fuera de Servicio) deben repararse antes de que el vehículo vuelva a estar en servicio. Sin embargo, en el OOSC no se describe ninguna declaración ni requisito al respecto.

Justificación o necesidad

Se han producido varios incidentes en los que el operador protestó contra esta práctica comercial y, en efecto, exigió reparar todos los frenos defectuosos excepto uno, de modo que el número total de frenos defectuosos se mantuviera por debajo del umbral del 20 %. Esta situación se da con mayor frecuencia en el OOSC con un límite del 20 % de frenos defectuosos, pero existen otras áreas en el OOSC donde esto podría aplicarse (por ejemplo, luces de freno, acoplamiento, fijaciones de ruedas, placas HM/DG, números de identificación HM/DG, etc.). En los casos en que esto ha ocurrido, no se ha podido encontrar ninguna política escrita sobre esta práctica comercial.

Solicitud de acción

Recomiendo que el Comité de Vehículos examine este asunto en consulta con el Comité de materiales peligrosos y elabore un texto que se incluya en las Declaraciones de Política de las Partes II y III del OOSC.

Medidas adoptadas por el comité

This issue was handled in conjunction with 09-028-VEH. Discussion around these issues resulted in 3 issues that needed to be addressed to assist inspectors and industry on requirements when vehicles are placed out-of-service. 1. What needs to be repaired to return to service, 2 The prohibition against repairing an OOS condition by creating a violation, 3 That vehicles in a combination declared OOS that have none of the OOS conditions, can be returned to service immediately.

This change also affects Operational Policy 5,

"Required Repairs for Out-Of-Service Notices", and "Inspection Guidance" Frequently Asked Questions - #2 (approved in Louisville).

This issue was also given to the Hazardous Materials Committee to develop a policy for Part III as well to deal with the same issue.Revised Wording: OUT-OF-SERVICE: Authorized personnel shall declare and mark "out-of-service" any motor vehicle which by reason of its mechanical condition or loading would be likely to cause an accident or breakdown. An "out-of-service vehicle" sticker shall be used to mark vehicles "out-of-service." No motor carrier shall require nor shall any person operate, or any inspector release any commercial motor vehicle declared and marked "out-of-service" until all repairs required by the "out-of-service notice" have been satisfactorily completed to where a violation no longer exists.When a vehicle is declared out-of-service for a condition resulting from an accumulation of violations, all violations that contributed to the specific out-of-service condition must be repaired (e.g. a vehicle, or vehicles in combination declared out-of-service for 20 percent defective brake violations must have all the 20 percent defective brake violations repaired prior to being released; or, a vehicle declared out-of-service for two tires at less than 1/32 inch (.8mm) tread depth must have both tire violations repaired prior to the vehicle being released, etc).An out-of-service condition cannot be corrected by creating a new violation (e.g. if a vehicle is declared out-of-service for three missing wheel fasteners on one wheel, wheel fasteners from other wheels cannot be removed to correct this out-of-service condition, etc).When vehicles in combination are declared out-of-service for 20 percent defective brake violations, any vehicle within the combination that does not contain a brake violation that contributed to the 20 percent defective brake out-of-service condition is allowed to proceed providing it does not contain any other out-of-service conditions.No person shall remove the "out-of-service vehicle" sticker from any motor vehicle prior to completion of all repairs required by the "out-of-service notice."

Executive Committee approved the amendment.