The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced that this year’s International Roadcheck will run May 12 through 14, a 72-hour enforcement push across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Known across the industry as Blitz Week, it is the largest targeted commercial vehicle enforcement program in the world.
During the 72-hour window, CVSA-certified inspectors at weigh stations, permanent inspection sites, and temporary pop-up locations will primarily run the North American Standard Level I Inspection. That’s a 37-step procedure covering both the driver and the vehicle. On average, nearly 15 commercial vehicles are inspected every minute across North America during Roadcheck. Since the program launched in 1988, more than 1.8 million inspections have been logged.
Each year CVSA highlights one driver violation category and one vehicle violation category. For 2026, the driver focus is ELD tampering, falsification, or manipulation. Inspectors will be reviewing records of duty status with closer attention than usual, looking for false entries, manipulated logs, edits without proper notation, and anything that suggests driving time was concealed. They can review up to eight days of logs, and drivers using a revoked ELD will be placed out of service. Last year, falsification of record of duty status was the second most-cited driver violation, with over 58,000 violations issued.
The 2026 vehicle focus is cargo securement. Improperly secured cargo is a major roadway hazard, and CVSA is putting it under the microscope this year. In 2025, more than 18,000 violations were issued for cargo not being secured to prevent leaking, spilling, blowing, or falling, and another 16,000+ for vehicle components or dunnage not being secured. Inspectors will check that cargo is contained, immobilized, and secured. The general rule: your securement system needs to meet at least half the total weight of the load in working load limit. That applies to flatbeds, but also to dry vans, tankers, and equipment hauls.
Whatever your plan is for next week, plan ahead. Inspections take time. Even a clean Level I can eat an hour or more of your clock, and stacked across three days the HOS math gets tight fast. Wait times at scales spike. Out-of-service violations carry downstream costs beyond the immediate downtime, affecting CSA scores and insurance. And parking demand spikes across major freight corridors as drivers and small fleets adjust their schedules around the 72-hour window.
Whether you’re running through it, parking it out, or want a backup spot in case you get pulled in for a long inspection, parking should be part of the plan. Truck Parking Club has 82,000+ spaces across 5,200+ locations in 49 states, with hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly bookings reservable in seconds. Code blitz26 takes $20 off any booking through May 17.
Blitz Week is 72 hours, but the issues inspectors are focused on get enforced every day of the year. The smart play isn’t to prepare for Blitz Week, it’s to operate Blitz-ready year-round. For the next three days, just expect the volume and the stakes to be higher than usual.
Plan your routes, plan your hours, and plan your parking.
Book your spot: truckparkingclub.com More information: https://cvsa.org/programs/international-roadcheck