{"id":206657,"date":"2019-10-07T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecompliancecenter.com\/ca\/?p=206657"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:50:40","slug":"taking-part-in-the-bc-provincial-cvsa-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecompliancecenter.com\/ca\/help-center\/articles\/taking-part-in-the-bc-provincial-cvsa-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Part in the BC Provincial CVSA Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
\"\"<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\nIn June of this year, I was invited to participate in the Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement (CVSE) Inspectors Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) Challenge in Surrey, BC, Canada as a judge. I know it doesn\u2019t sound fun but honestly, it was awesome.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe challenge was over a 3-day period and the competitors were seven (7) very qualified CVSE inspectors from all over BC to test their skills and knowledge. The winner from this competition would go on to compete in the North American Inspectors Championship (NAIC) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. The NAIC includes the best of the best inspectors from Canada, the United States and Mexico competing for the title of Grand Champion. This is some serious stuff and of course, comes with bragging rights!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFor the provincial competition, the competitors first have to write a series of qualifying exams, which advances them to the provincial competition. This year\u2019s competition consisted of driver interview, dangerous goods cargo tank inspection, coach bus inspection, and dangerous goods packaging inspection.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI came in as a judge for the dangerous goods inspections. We provided some of the dangerous goods packaging with \u201ccompliance issues\u201d. That was fun for me. I got to make dangerous goods stuff incorrect on purpose for once.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA few incompliance issues that I added:\r\n\r\n\r\n