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Business
Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw
Independent owner-operators have the lowest rate of truck-involved crashes but are far more likely to be put out of service than drivers for carriers with 500 or more trucks, which have a higher crash rate.
May 6, 2013
Click through the chart above for a larger view. SOURCE: RigDig Business Intelligence (rigdig.com/bi) and Overdrive analysis of federally recordable truck-involved crash data for years 2010-12. Carriers represented include the total registered population with at least one inspection over the course of those years and with some version of for-hire operating authority.
Regulations
Crashes and interventions: Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking
The FMCSA’s quick-strike sweep through “high-risk” passenger carriers, say officials, will be hitting our industry sooner rather than later. Knowing the agency’s definition of a high-risk carrier is your first step in avoiding involuntary shutdown.
May 3, 2013
In FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System, this symbol indicates a carrier’s ranking in a certain BASIC has exceeded the intervention or “alert” threshold, marking the carrier for investigative action.
Business
New Mexico recognized for its Smart Roadside Inspection tech
The recognition from the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School was awarded as part of the center’s “Top 25 Innovations in Government” program.
May 3, 2013
new mexico Smart roadside camera
Business
Crashes and interventions: The fault handicap
FMCSA may be a long way from accounting for crash fault in the CSA Safety Measurement System. In the meantime, questions about the system’s effectiveness loom large with analysis of crash rates.
May 1, 2013
Working with CCJ and RigDig Business Intelligence, a division of Overdrive publisher Randall-Reilly Business Media, we analyzed crash data over years 2010-12, covering CSA’s first two years. Here we offer insights CSA’s effectiveness in identifying crash-prone carriers and enforcement patterns and what you can do to keep your business in the clear. Find further “Crashes and interventions” installments via this page in the coming weeks.
Business
Delving into CSA data shows enforcement irregularities
Overdrive is excited to launch the expanded CSA’s Data Trail website, which is dedicated to empowering trucking professionals with data and analysis of how CSA affects their businesses.
May 1, 2013
inspection csa
Channel 19
Ranking jobs: Truck Driver gains while Publication Editor plummets
At No. 108, though, ‘Truck Driver’ falls far behind the No. 1 occupation of ‘Actuary,’ a sort of glorified statistician of sorts — meaning FMCSA’s CSA team might have the best job in the country?
April 29, 2013
Owner-operator truck on highway
Channel 19
What this year’s MCSAP awards say about national enforcement priorities
MCSAP award winners’ violation priorities profiles suggest the federal government views a high level of on-highway traffic enforcement (versus vehicle inspections) as preferable enforcement behavior.
April 27, 2013
MCSAP award winners’ violation priorities profiles suggest the federal government views a high level of on-highway traffic enforcement (versus a large share of vehicle inspections) as preferable enforcement behavior.
Channel 19
How to DataQ: 9 tips
Indiana State Police DataQs coordinator Michael Wilson shared these at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance workshop April 22, 2013.
April 23, 2013
DataQs website edit
Business
FMCSA’s focus on inspections a point of contention at CVSA workshop
ATA representative Phil Byrd challenged the enforcement community to shift priorities away from inspections to traffic enforcement. Also: Regulatory update from FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro.
April 23, 2013
Inspection in Franklin County, Kentucky
Business
CSA priorities include addressing concerns of small carriers, crash accountability, agency says
FMCSA also announced plans to launch a new version of the DataQs website for challenging inspection violations and crash assignments as early as the coming weekend.
April 22, 2013
Driver screening — KY inspection station photo
Channel 19
CSA: Law enforcement/ driver perspective alignment
Though drivers’ No. 1 named CSA problem in recent polling is the deterioration in driver/officer relationships, an interview with CVSA’s Stephen Keppler shows some concurrence on the system’s problems.
April 22, 2013
In January, Overdrive polled readers on some of the biggest problems with CSA.
Channel 19
On dying breeds — and free pickup bedliners!
When talking about past “outlaw” segments of trucking culture, owner-operators are hardly the primary participants. (Also: a contest from Plastikote to win a free pickup bedliner — you’re welcome.)
April 11, 2013
Overdrive‘s Partners in Business seminars, conducted twice yearly at the Great West and Great American trucking shows in partnership with ATBS, offer strategies toward building owner-operator business acumen.
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