Tag: Bill Quade

Hours of Service
Truckers push flexibility case at latest hours of service listening session
The FMCSA's Ray Martinez listened to truckers voice their opinions about hours of service regulations at the Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin, MO.
October 2, 2018
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Channel 19
Say no to stacked light violations
An advocate, going to bat for a driver hit with five “stacked” lighting violations during an inspection, uncovers some intel on a potential final fix for stacking ongoing via CVSA/FMCSA development work. High time for it. . .
September 24, 2013
Find a variety of ways to manage the CSA program, as well as discussions of the regime’s inequities and what’s being done to challenge them, via our CSA’s Data Trail main page.
Channel 19
Watch those post-crash-inspection violations
They shouldn’t be assigned severity weights to contribute to a carrier’s ranking in any CSA BASIC if the violation was a result of the crash.
May 6, 2013
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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.
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
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
Business
Inconsistent enforcement: Insist on inspection, not citation
The way the DataQs challenge system is working suggests conventional wisdom about citations and CSA scores is flawed, with the issue of unfinished clean inspections looming larger for carriers looking to improve CSA scores.
March 27, 2013
If you have a CSA score above the intervention threshold in one or more of the BASICs, you need clean inspections to improve scores in a timely manner, such as vehicle inspections resulting in application of a Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance decal.
Business
Industry, safety advocates split on CSA ‘work in progress’
The Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee’s 10-member CSA subcommittee issued recommendations with no small amount of dissent on the issues of crash fault and CSA scores’ public display.
February 7, 2013
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Channel 19
CSA’s batting average: MCSAC snapshot
The program has hit one out of the park in getting carriers’ attention, but MCSAC CSA Subcommittee members point to more strikeouts than base hits.
February 6, 2013
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Business
Panel highlights CSA data-quality issues
The Feb.5, 2013, meeting of the FMCSA’s CSA Subcommitte to the MCSAC advisory board revealed data quality is a top stakeholder concern with the enforcement regime.
February 5, 2013
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Channel 19
Much to change, much to talk about: CSA
The August 2012 MCSAC meeting saw a robust debate centered around the CSA programs flaws and ways to correct them. Here find a few bright (and in some cases dark) moments from the dialogue.
August 30, 2012
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Mexican carriers’ EOBRs flag hours ‘violations’
FMCSA Associate Administrator Bill Quade updated the MCSAC August 27 on progress in the U.S. Mexican cross-border trucking program.
August 28, 2012
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