Vehicle Maintenance and Inspections
Keep the records that prove your maintenance is systematic
What you’ll learn
29 self-paced lessons · One-time price · Certificate of completion · Access never expires
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This course covers vehicle maintenance and inspections end to end: the duty to maintain systematically and what the maintenance file must contain, the annual inspection and why a tractor and three trailers is four inspections rather than one, when a driver vehicle inspection report is actually required and the repair chain it starts, who is qualified to perform inspections and brake work and what evidence you must hold, and how all of it feeds a roadside stop and an audit. The course is organized into five modules of short lessons, followed by a final quiz.
The duty to maintain
5 lessons
- 1One word carries the rule
- 2What the maintenance file must contain
- 3The schedule is the evidence
- 4How long to keep it
- 5Who this applies to
The annual inspection
6 lessons
- 1Every twelve months
- 2Each unit, not each rig
- 3What the inspection covers
- 4Who may perform it
- 5Proof that it happened
- 6Equivalent inspections
The daily inspection
7 lessons
- 1Before the trip
- 2The DVIR, and when it is actually required
- 3More than one vehicle
- 4What the report covers
- 5The repair chain
- 6Electronic reports
- 7How long to keep them
Who is qualified to inspect
5 lessons
- 1Two qualifications, not one
- 2The annual inspector
- 3The brake inspector
- 4A CDL air brake endorsement is not enough
- 5Keeping the evidence
Roadside, audits, and where it goes wrong
6 lessons
- 1Out of service
- 2Three of the sixteen
- 3The Vehicle factor, and the number to watch
- 4What an auditor asks for
- 5Where carriers actually fail
- 6What you can do now
Final Quiz
Covers the whole course