The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced a 60-day preview period of several changes to the display of carrier data and scoring metrics available to the public via the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s Safety Measurement System website. Attendant to the preview, FMCSA requests comments on the changes from stakeholders as well as the public.
The comment period begins Nov. 5, 2013. Written comments regarding the changes can be filed in the Federal Docket Management System via regulations.gov referencing Docket ID Number FMCSA-2013-26543.
By fax: (202) 493-2251.
By mail or hand delivery: Docket Management Facility, (M-30), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor, Room 12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
FMCSA says it will review comments and make any necessary changes prior to implementation.
The proposed redesign is intended to advance FMCSA’s safety mission by making important information easier to understand for motor carriers who want to improve their safety performance and for public users interested in FMCSA data. A summary of some of the changes follows.
**Motor carriers’ Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category (BASIC) percentile rankings are being moved from the front summary to within the drill-down pages for each BASIC. A carrier’s summary page will display “a summary BASIC status to better clarify if a motor carrier’s performance in the individual BASICs causes it to be prioritized for an intervention.
