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Altered CSA Safety Measurement System back in the public eye

The FMCSA has returned an altered CSA SMS to public view, showing no percentile or other evaluative scoring in the BASIC categories of measurement.

January 13, 2016

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Safety rating poised to turn to roadside data, coalition issues challenge

The coalition that took on the recent highway bill’s “poison pill” successfully has issued something of a pre-emptive challenge to FMCSA’s proposed changes to the safety rating program.

January 12, 2016

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Listening session: ‘Beyond compliance’ with the regulations — if, and how, to reward

Whatever you think about the in-progress “beyond compliance” program and its origins, the fact is it’s in the works — anyone with ideas on how it *should* or *shouldn’t* be structured can weigh in via a listening session Jan. 12.

January 11, 2016

Reduce inspection likelihood with added safety investment? Such realities could get a boost from a new FMCSA program whose outcome will be influenced by comment from owner-operators and others in trucking being taken as we speak.

The tightening knot of ELDs, hours, parking: Channel 19 year in review, the finale

As in 2014 with the restart rollback, several issues came to a head in the last month of 2015, bring us back to where we started in this year in review: The problem with the hours of service, readers say, is a central safety issue.

December 31, 2015

September’s announced Brake Safety Week inspection blitz around the nation was trumped this year in some ways by a national brake-check day, unannounced, in early May.

CSA reform package in highway bill includes added incentive/bonus program for motor carriers

The “Beyond Compliance” incentive/credit program’s inclusion in the highway bill ensures its regulatory pursuit. Inclusion follows exploration of the idea by FMCSA and numerous commenters earlier this year.

December 10, 2015

Among incentives discussed for participation in a “Beyond Compliance” program were reduction in carriers’ Inspection Selection System scores, numbers utilized by bypass systems and law enforcement to help determine who to inspect.

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CSA scores pulled behind the curtain — what’s next?

Following FMCSA’s pull of the CSA SMS from public view, some signs that the CSA bell will continue to ring in carrier selection processes from brokers and shippers in the “private CSA world.” Some reader views, too, on FMCSA’s next move.

December 7, 2015

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FMCSA removes CSA scores in wake of highway bill signing

As required by the FAST Act highway bill, signed into law by President Obama the afternoon of Dec. 4, FMCSA has pulled the CSA Safety Measurement System from public view.

December 4, 2015

Is the removal of CSA scores a victory for trucking? If you’re reading on a smartphone, tap the image to call and leave us a message to weigh in. We’ll round up responses in a special mailbag podcast. Alternately, drop a comment below. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence.

ScoopMonkey’s new ‘CSA Score Explainer’ tool

The broker/carrier business-to-business online rating and review service is taking up carriers’ and brokers’ concerns with the CSA SMS, offering “technology’s response to the ineffectiveness and incompleteness of CSA scores.”

November 17, 2015

One carrier’s measure in the Vehicle Maintenance BASIC changing over time, as shown today in the CSA SMS.

Congress to attempt to hammer out unified highway bill, owner-op ‘poison pill,’ size/weight already see action

Of key trucking interests on the table heading into the conference committee are potential inclusions of size and weight changes and, perhaps more pressing for owner-operators, fixing language in the bill that could potentially create havoc for about 450,000 carriers, many of them small fleets and owner-operators.

November 12, 2015

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No breaks for brakes: Virginia State Police lead the nation in brake violation focus

The latest in Overdrive's CSA's Data Trail series shows a no-frills approach to inspections also puts Virginia near the top for maintenance violations overall.

October 30, 2015

State enforcement personnel rank in the top five for violations per inspection and just out of the top 10 for percentage of clean inspections. Virginia also leads all states in brake violations as a percentage of its total issued violations in 2014, a measure of the state’s focus that has seen a 22 percent rise since calendar year 2011. Source: Unless otherwise noted, all numbers based on 2014 federal data analyzed by RigDig Business Intelligence (rigdig.com/bi)

Poison pill for independents in the House highway bill?

With the House T&I committee’s markup of the highway bill under way today, detail on a provision that could have a chilling effect on broker business with independents and small carriers.

October 22, 2015

FMCSA hits back on CSA effectiveness, defends accuracy of carrier rankings system

Amid increasing calls for the FMCSA to remove CSA rankings/scores from public view, a new analysis from FMCSA reiterates what the agency has said all along about the CSA Safety Measurement System: It’s effective.

October 8, 2015

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