Comparing vehicle out-of-service rates
CVSA’s headline vehicle out-of-service rate does not divide by the same thing every year. In 2023, 2025 and 2026 it divided by every inspection, including the Level III inspections that check only the driver. In 2024 CVSA did not say, but its 23% matches the Level I, II and V inspections that examine the vehicle: 9,299 of 40,458 is 23.0%, while on all 48,761 inspections the rate would have been about 19%. On the Level I, II and V base, the rate was 23.0% in 2024, 22.6% in 2025 and 23.5% in 2026. The separate 2023 reconstruction below is not a confirmed comparable rate: CVSA does not allocate that year’s out-of-service vehicles by inspection level.
CVSA headline vehicle out-of-service rates and Level I, II and V rates, with a separate unconfirmed 2023 reconstruction| Year | Headline rate | Headline base | Level I, II and V rate or reconstruction | Source and qualification |
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| 2026 | 19% | All 54,575 inspections | 23.5% | CVSA |
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| 2025 | 18.1% | All 56,178 inspections | 22.6% | CVSA |
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| 2024 | 23% | Not stated; matches the 40,458 Level I, II and V | 23.0% | MapTrack: 9,299 of 40,458 |
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| 2023 | 19% | All 59,429 inspections | 22.5% (reconstruction) | MapTrack: 11,270 / 50,097; numerator allocation unconfirmed |
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| 2020 | 20.9% | Level I, II and V inspections | 20.9% | CVSA |
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CVSA published the Level I, II and V rate itself for 2020, 2025 and 2026. For 2024, MapTrack divides the 9,299 out-of-service vehicles CVSA explicitly assigns to 40,458 Level I, II and V inspections. For 2023, dividing all 11,270 out-of-service vehicles by the 50,097 Level I, II and V inspections (36,021, 12,741 and 1,335) gives 22.5%, but CVSA does not confirm that all those vehicles belong to those inspection levels. The numerator allocation is unconfirmed, so this reconstruction does not establish a like-for-like trend from 2023 to 2026. CVSA published other rates for 2021 and 2022 but not this one: 16.5% of all vehicles examined in 2021, and in 2022 both 22.8% on Level I and II inspections in Canada and the US and 23.1% on Level I and V inspections across North America. The 2021 release gives no exact inspection total and the 2022 release gives two, so neither year can be put on the same base with confidence, and both are left out of the table.
