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Vehicle maintenance inspections and enforcement personnel training
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Acting Commissioner Lojan explains the process of vehicle maintenance inspections and the training of enforcement personnel in response to Council Member Abreu's question about vehicle maintenance violations.
- Sanitation police officers receive motor carrier safety training in Albany
- Different levels of inspections are conducted, including comprehensive Level 1 and Level 2 inspections
- 14 Level 2 inspections have been conducted, resulting in one truck and one driver being taken out of service
Shaun Abreu
0:40:41
How many of these violations were related to vehicle maintenance?
Javier Lojan
0:40:46
So one of the things that we did with our enforcement personnel, we have police officers, sanitation police officers that we sent up to Albany for motor carrier safety training, meaning it's it's what you know we do all heavy duty trucks, they had to go to an intensive training and part and it'd be qualified in in being able to inspect these kinds of trucks.
0:41:14
So there's level one inspections where they pretty much pull the truck over and inspect almost every aspect of a vehicle even underneath the truck, so it's very time consuming.
0:41:28
There's a level two violation, I'm sorry.
0:41:30
There's a level two inspections which is the ones that we've typically been doing where we'll go out there, we'll pull the truck over, and we'll check the entire, equipment and, safety parts of of the truck.
0:41:43
So like lights, you know, you know, any of the safety equipment that we that a truck's supposed to have, we'll inspect that.
0:41:51
And as well as the operator, we will inspect the operator's driver's license.
0:41:57
As you know, drivers of heavy duty equipment are required to have commercial wish CDL, which are still governed under FMCSA regulations.
0:42:06
So they're able to inspect to see if they have a valid license, things like that.
0:42:10
So we've conducted 14 inspections of level two as I mentioned.
0:42:15
One resulted in the truck being taken out of service because if they had issues and then one resulted in a driver being taken out of service because they may have been issues with his or her license.
0:42:24
So it's been effective.
Shaun Abreu
0:42:26
Of the 108, you said 187 correct?