No More Certification Stickers
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to end
the requirement that trailer and truck underride guards have manufacturer certification stickers. A CVSA decal is
a colored sticker featuring the year in which the inspection was performed, along with the CVSA trademarked
logo. Underride guards aka "DOT bumpers", help prevent other vehicles going under a CMV in a rear-end crash.
The current stickers fade or are removed during a repair and some truckers are unable to obtain new stickers
from manufacturers. Also, a sticker doesn't mean that a underride guard is still in good condition. During a
nationwide study in 2018, 72% of vehicles lacked the certification. This high number showed that troopers
weren't paying enough attention to rear bumpers, so some of the vehicles they checked didn't actually need to
have the required sticker. CVSA is currently working on a new training module for their nationwide inspection.
