Category: Driver Management Resource Center

Your truck just got placed out of service. Now what?

The trick to dealing efficiently for roadside repairs, even ones resulting from roadside inspections, is to plan ahead for them, says TA’s resident maintenance expert.

No one wants their tractor-trailer put out-of-service (OOS) for a vehicle violation following a roadside inspection. But as a paraphrase of the great poet Robert Burns illustrates, “even the best-laid plans of mice and men go awry,” and for that reason you need a plan already in place to figure out how to correct an OOS vehicle violation in order to get your rig back on the road.

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Your truck just got placed out of service. Now what?

The trick to dealing efficiently for roadside repairs, even ones resulting from roadside inspections, is to plan ahead for them, says TA’s resident maintenance expert.

No one wants their tractor-trailer put out-of-service (OOS) for a vehicle violation following a roadside inspection. But as a paraphrase of the great poet Robert Burns illustrates, “even the best-laid plans of mice and men go awry,” and for that reason you need a plan already in place to figure out how to correct an OOS vehicle violation in order to get your rig back on the road.

read more