Roadside Safety and Security Inspection

Roadside check facility equipment to provide the capabilities to automate the roadside safety inspection process including use of hand held devices to rapidly inspect the vehicle and driver.

1. The roadside check facility equipment shall receive information concerning commercial vehicles and freight equipment approaching a facility that are being pulled in for safety and security inspections.
2. The roadside check facility equipment shall receive the safety and security inspection and status information from the commercial vehicle administration center to include information such as safety ratings, inspection summaries, and violation summaries. Corresponds to the safety portion of CVISN "snapshots."
3. The roadside check facility equipment shall provide an interface to inspectors in the field to allow them to safety inspection data including overrides to the pull-in decisions made by the system.
4. The roadside check facility equipment shall request and input electronic safety data from the commercial vehicle's electronic tag data. This includes driver logs, on-board safety data, safety inspection records, commercial vehicle breach information, as well as freight equipment information.
5. The roadside check facility equipment shall send a pass/pull-in notification to the commercial vehicle and its driver based on the information received from the vehicle, the administration center, and the inspector. The message may be sent to the on-board equipment in the commercial vehicle or transmitted to the driver using equipment such as dynamic message signs, red-green lights, flashing signs, etc.
6. The roadside check facility equipment shall receive information about a breach or tamper event on a commercial vehicle or its attached freight equipment which includes identity, type of breach, location, and time.
7. The roadside check facility equipment shall receive driver records, accident reports, and citation records from the commercial vehicle administration center to support driver identification and access to driver credentials and history information.
8. The roadside check facility equipment shall read expected driver identity characteristics (e.g., PIN codes and biometric data) from the commercial vehicle equipment to support safety and security checking.
9. The roadside check facility equipment shall read the driver identification card provided by the commercial vehicle driver and support cross-check of the identification data with driver records.
10. The roadside check facility equipment shall forward results of the roadside safety inspections to the commercial vehicle administration center.