REGIONAL NEWS
REGION III
CVSA Staff and Inspectors Work with Industry for Video Shoot in Wisconsin By Lt. Karl L. Mittelstadt, Motor Carrier Enforcement Section, Wisconsin State Patrol
It seems so long ago that the seed for the newly-released CVSA securement training video was planted. Back in 2017, during the North American Cargo Securement Harmonization Public Forum, discussion started about properly securing roll-on/ roll-off container requirements and integral securement systems versus the same vehicles without integral systems. The lugger box industry had submitted an issue request regarding the securement of lugger boxes on vehicles as well. Adding that type of vehicle to the discussion soon exposed the fact that not all inspectors were familiar with lugger boxes. Some thought they were the same as a roll-on/roll-off container (which they are not). It became evident that training guidance needed to be developed on the specific commodity of roll-on/roll-off and hook-lift container vehicles, as well as the lugger box truck that did not fall into the specific commodity section of the regulation.
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A training bulletin was developed in the CVSA Training Committee with the assistance of the industry and was set to be voted on in the Vehicle and Training Committee, when the lugger box industry asked if they could do some performance testing to try to prove that there were alternative means that would adequately keep the box on the deck without having to secure the box under the general provisions. So, the issuance of the bulletin was set aside and with the help of Sadoff Iron and Metal Company, ACE Lugger Hoists, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Whealon Towing and Service, and the Wisconsin State Patrol, testing days were organized in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, despite COVID-19. The performance tests, which proved the equivalent means of securement for lugger boxes, were filmed, recorded and submitted to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Once that work was completed, CVSA’s Vehicle Committee and North American Cargo Securement Harmonization Program approved an addition to the inspection bulletin outlining several different methods that can be used in the U.S. to secure lugger boxes. The bulletin was finalized in the Training Committee and approved by the CVSA Board of Directors in 2020. You can find the 2020-05 – Securement of Roll-on/Roll-off, Hook-Lift and Lugger Containers on Vehicles Inspection Bulletin at www.cvsa.org/inspections/inspectionbulletins. Based on the amount of discussion and confusion during the development of the inspection bulletin, the Training Committee requested that a training video be produced to reflect the information contained in the bulletin and provide uniform guidance to enforcement and industry.
