The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week enforcement effort is officially in the books, but the next major trucker blitz is already right around the corner.

From August 24 — 30, 2025, law enforcement agencies across North America will partner for CVSA’s Brake Safety Week inspection campaign. The purpose of this inspection and enforcement effort is to reduce commercial vehicle crashes caused by faulty brakes.

During Brake Safety Week, safety personnel will conduct commercial vehicle inspections with special emphasis on brake systems. If inspectors find brake-related out-of-service violations, or any other out-of-service violations, the vehicle will be removed from roadways until those violations are corrected.

The area of emphasis for Brake Safety Week 2025 will be drums and rotors.

Some jurisdictions will use performance-based brake testers (PBBT) as part of the brake blitz. In the video below, you can see a PBBT machine in action during an Indiana State Police CMV operation in Fort Wayne earlier this year.

An unannounced CVSA Brake Safety Day inspection effort took place on April 22, 2025. Law enforcement in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. conducted 4,569 commercial motor vehicle inspections and placed 398 (8.7%) of those vehicles out of service due to brake-related violations.

During Brake Safety Week 2024, officers conducted 16,725 inspections on commercial motor vehicles. A total of 2,149 of those inspected vehicles had brake-related out-of-service violations, which is a 12.8% out-of-service rate. 

Operation Safe Driver Week took place in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada from July 13 — 19, 2025.