13,273 Trucks Got Parked During Blitz Week. If Your Violation Is Wrong, You Have a Real Way to Fight It.

The 2026 CVSA International Roadcheck ran May 12 through 14 — but enforcement didn’t stop there. Blitz week ran May 10 through 17, and by the time it closed out, the numbers were more significant than what the three-day event alone produced: 38,926 inspections. 69,446 violations. 13,273 out-of-service orders. 25,008 carriers inspected.

What a lot of operators still haven’t heard is that a significant federal reform — one that directly changes how you challenge those violations — just went into effect this spring. If you’ve got a citation on your record that doesn’t belong there, the window to act is shorter than you think.

Check Your Record Before June 8 The SMS — FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System — last updated May 4. The next update is June 8. That’s when the full blitz week impact hits your CSA BASIC scores. Roughly three weeks. Go to Safer right now and pull every inspection report from blitz week under your USDOT number.

Results are still trickling in from state agencies — check again later this week once those settle. Once you have the complete picture, go through each violation code against what was actually on your truck. Not what you think was on your truck. What the regulation specifically requires for a violation to be issued. Many smaller operators don’t do this.

They assume citations are accurate. Some of them aren’t. At 38,926 inspections across a week, documentation errors happen. Wrong DOT number on the report. A violation code that doesn’t match the condition described in the notes. An OOS order missing its required supporting notation.

These are correctable — through FMCSA’s DataQs system — but only if you catch them and file with proper documentation before those violations settle into your two-year scoring window. The record doesn’t fix itself.

What the Blitz Week Data Actually Showed The inspection numbers from blitz week tell a story about the compliance condition of commercial vehicles that is hard to dismiss. Across 38,926 inspections, 13,273 trucks were placed out of service — a 34. 1% OOS rate. The violations-per-inspection rate ran between 1. 75 and 1.

90 on every active day and did not drop meaningfully as the week progressed. Texas led all states with 3,905 inspections for the full week. Pennsylvania was second at 3,338. California third at 3,033. North Carolina logged 1,919. Oklahoma had 1,529. Illinois 1,396. Alabama 1,108. New Jersey 1,061. Kentucky 1,020. Maryland rounded out the top ten at 1,015.

On the carrier side, the gap between operators who run clean and those who don’t is impossible to ignore. Autobuses Ejecutivos LLC (DOT #1044521) went through 46 inspections across the full week with zero violations — 0. 00 violations per inspection. Cline Tours Inc (DOT #346734) posted zero violations across 27 inspections.

Groome Transportation of Georgia LLC (DOT #725122) at 17 inspections, CLI Transport LP (DOT #811465) at 15 inspections, and Hardy Brothers Inc (DOT #140348) at 12 inspections all finished the week with zero violations as well.

On the other end: PK Logistix LLC (DOT #4521723) had 17 of its 24 inspections result in OOS orders — a 71% OOS rate with 108 total violations across the week. Robert L Gast Inc (DOT #706981) posted a 70% OOS rate with 7 of 10 inspections OOS and 45 violations. Action Resources LLC (DOT #680185) at 60%. Navinix LLC (DOT #2927626) at 55%.

Gulf Winds International Inc (DOT #690147) at 50% with 7 of 14 inspections OOS and 45 violations. These are not carriers that had a bad week. These are carriers whose compliance programs — or absence of one — became visible under sustained enforcement pressure.

The worst individual inspections by violation count: Kansas inspection 0450000472 from May 11 logged 38 total violations including 36 vehicle violations, and also produced 11 OOS conditions. Connecticut’s 3084000299 from May 13 logged 37 total violations and 11 OOS.

Pennsylvania’s P508613467 from May 14 produced 33 violations, 31 of them vehicle, and 14 OOS conditions — the highest OOS count of the full week. On the driver side, Arizona inspection 0676200646 from May 12 logged 26 driver violations out of 27 total — every violation in that inspection was a driver compliance failure.

Michigan’s ZYLSJ01647 logged 22 driver violations across 26 total. Indiana’s 7418004677 also hit 22 driver violations. Among shippers, The Home Depot posted the worst OOS rate of the full week at 60% — 6 of 10 inspections OOS with 24 total violations. Copart was second at 53% OOS with 10 of 19 inspections OOS and 61 violations.

Scotts and Leprino each hit 40%. Kroger logged 38% OOS with 8 of 21 inspections OOS and 51 violations. What FMCSA Just Changed About the Challenge Process DataQs has been around for years. The problem was never access — carriers could always file. The problem was what happened after they did.

Under the old setup, when a state agency denied a challenge, the person making that call was often the same officer who originally wrote the citation. No deadline