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Trucking groups on FMCSA’s crash accountability study: Incomplete data in CSA still inexcusable

NASTC, ATA, OOIDA and most readers lodge displeasure with FMCSA’s crash-fault analysis, while some readers suggest the feds may have it right in reticence to rely on police reports to assess fault.

January 28, 2015

FMCSA concludes weighting crash fault in CSA rankings would be inconsequential, cumbersome

Incorporating crash accountability into the CSA carrier ranking program would not improve the DOT’s ability to target for intervention carriers most at risk for crashes, nor would it be easy to implement or cost-effective, FMCSA concluded.

January 21, 2015

Best way to avoid inspection in Indiana: Slow down

With speeding accounting for nearly half of all moving-type infractions marked on inspection reports in 2013, Indiana ranks first in the nation for those violations.

December 30, 2014

Percentages calculated as a share of all violations within Indiana and nationally. Source for all data: Unless otherwise noted, federal data mined by Overdrive and RigDig Business Intelligence.

The regs: Threading the needle through 2014

Part 2 in this Channel 19 year in review highlights the most-read stories from the blog this year having to do with regulations — and their enforcement. CARB, insurance, CSA, hours…

December 29, 2014

Click through the image for comprehensive data on rates of inspections, out of service orders and CSA BASIC percentile rankings organized according to carrier size — data from inception of CSA program through calendar year 2012.

CSA program not ‘meeting the goal’

If you think the FMCSA’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program has misdirected carriers’ safety focus in a big way, you’ll find a friend in Oregon DOT’s David McKane.

December 16, 2014

Read more about Oregon’s enforcement program — the state ranks No. 1 among the continental 48 for the intensity of its focus on hours violations — in the story at this link.

Oregon: An edge on hours

The state of Oregon is known among owner-operators for more than its scenic mountain passes and rocky coast: Oregon’s weight-distance tax data sharpens its focus on log violations.

December 9, 2014

Some readers show favor for the public visibility of CSA’s carrier scores

And what about drivers’ information? some readers ask as broad swathes of trucking industry representatives call for hiding carrier CSA scores.

November 25, 2014

CVSA joins industry in call for CSA SMS scores to be removed from public view

In a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx dated Nov. 14, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance echoed industry calls for CSA’s SMS scores to be removed from public view.

November 21, 2014

Don’t mess with Texas: Focusing on the truck and not the trucker to roll back crashes

Only two of the states with the biggest truck-involved fatality-crash problems show a percentage of maintenance violations above the 2013 national average of 72.6 percent – Virginia and Texas.

November 6, 2014

Thursday round-up: What deer whistles, elections and NASTC’s annual meeting have in common

Tools designed to mitigate hazard, maybe? At least one of these, maybe two (and it’s not the NASTC meet, I can assure you) doesn’t normally work so well. Nonetheless, fingers can always be crossed…

November 6, 2014

Don’t mess with Texas: No. 1 for maintenance violations

If you’re running through the Lone Star State, don’t skimp on pre-trip inspections. No other state issues a higher percentage of maintenance violations.

November 5, 2014

Overdrive Radio

MCSAC to get new chairman — and a little CSA deja vu

Ever wonder what FMCSA’s current administrator sounds like? Hear him reveal the incoming MCSAC advisory committee chair here. Also: No wonder trucking went to Congress over CSA, and more from D.C….

October 28, 2014

Inspection in Franklin County, Kentucky

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