Blitz Week starts Tuesday. Here's the plan.

ELDs and cargo securement are the focus. Plan your routes, hours, and parking.

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Reed Loustalot
May 08, 2026

TRUCK PARKING CLUB

Friday Bulletin • May 8, 2026

Good Morning Truck Parking Club Members,

How does CVSA Roadcheck (Blitz Week) affect you?

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The Big Thing

CVSA International Roadcheck Runs May 12-14. Here's What Drivers Need to Know.

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 81,000+ spaces across 5,160+ 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.

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News

$200 Million for Truck Parking Has a New Problem The historic $200 million line item for truck parking that Trump signed into law in February is now caught in the fight over the next highway authorization bill, which expires September 30. TCA's David Heller says standalone bills rarely pass on their own anymore and the only real path forward is attaching parking funding to the larger reauthorization package. Adding to the uncertainty, House T&I Committee Chairman Sam Graves is term-limited out of his chair role at the end of this session. Translation: the money got approved, but keeping the pipeline open for next year is a different fight. Read more on The Trucker

Spot Rates Keep Climbing in Every Equipment Category Dry van, reefer, and flatbed spot rates all moved higher last week according to FTR and DAT. Flatbed rates have now risen for 18 straight weeks despite declining loads, and refrigerated rates ticked up for the first time in four weeks heading into Mother's Day. Dry van also gained against a season that usually trends the other way in early May. The pattern lines up with what Landstar and Werner reported in earnings: capacity is tightening, and carriers are finally getting paid for it. Read more on FleetOwner

FMCSA's New Registration System Goes Live May 14 Motus replaces the old FMCSA registration system in one week, and every motor carrier with a USDOT or MC number needs to act now or risk getting locked out. Anyone who hasn't logged into their FMCSA Portal account in 90 days is already disabled, and 12 months of inactivity means the account is archived. FMCSA says only the Company Official tied to the original Login.gov email can claim the account in Motus on the first try. If you haven't checked your portal status, do it today. Read more on CDLLife

Two More ELDs Just Got Yanked Off the Registered List FMCSA removed Safe ELD (iOS and Android) and MYLOGS ELD from its list of registered electronic logging devices on May 1. Drivers running either device are now non-compliant with hours-of-service rules and need to switch to a registered device immediately or face violations at the next inspection. This continues a pattern of mass decertifications that has knocked dozens of devices off the list in the past year. With Roadcheck a week away, this is the worst possible time to be running an unregistered ELD. Read more on FMCSA

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The 48th Annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree returns to the Iowa 80 Truckstop off I-80, Exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa. Last year's event drew over 45,000 people.

This year features the Super Truck Beauty Contest, antique truck display, Trucker Olympics, Iowa pork chop cookout, fireworks at 9 PM, and live music all three days. Admission and parking are free.

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