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White House clears rule to set up new FMCSA system to score, target carriers
Few details are known about what the rule entails. According to the agency’s regulatory summary, it would give FMCSA a new system to “determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate.” It’s unclear whether recent Congressional action to remove CSA rankings from public view will impact the SFD rule, however.
December 14, 2015
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Safety Fitness Determination rule under review by FMCSA’s top brass, agency leader says
The long-awaited Safety Fitness Determination rule has hit the “front office” of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said FMCSA Chief Safety Officer Jack Van Steenburg, which is one of the last stops before moving to the White House for approval.
October 13, 2014
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House introduces bill directing FMCSA to fix CSA, remove scores from public view
A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House to require FMCSA to remove from public view the carrier rankings and scores produced in the agency’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program from public view.
September 22, 2014
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More trucking groups call on FMCSA to remove CSA scores from public view
Several more trucking groups have called on DOT head Anthony Foxx to remove carriers’ safety data and Compliance, Safety, Accountability rankings from public view, saying the agency uses data that has “statistical flaws” to produce the Safety Measurement System rankings within CSA.
September 18, 2014
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Changes to CSA’s SMS site go live, aim to better illustrate scores’ relationship to crash risk
The Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s carrier rankings site — the Safety Measurement System — has been redesigned and has some new features, which went live Aug. 2. Here’s what’s changed.
August 4, 2014
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FMCSA speeds work on raising carrier insurance minimums, slows on Safety Fitness scoring rule
The prospect of a proposed Safety Fitness Determination rule coming this year seems to have diminished, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has made its work on producing a rule raising the minimum amount of liability insurance for carriers a higher priority, according to projected rule publication dates in a recent DOT report.
July 15, 2014
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CSA works and is not biased against small carriers, FMCSA report concludes
Coming on the heels of a government-issued report saying CSA’s scoring method is faulty and unfair, FMCSA has released a study concluding the opposite: The system does work to identify carriers who pose the greatest crash risk, the agency says.
February 5, 2014
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CSA scoring is faulty, unfair for small carriers, GAO report says
The scoring system used by FMCSA in its Compliance, Safety, Accountability system is flawed and is made up of an incomplete data set, particularly for small carriers, a GAO report concludes.
February 4, 2014
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