Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

Watch those post-crash-inspection violations

| May 06, 2013

They shouldn't be assigned severity weights to contribute to a carrier's ranking in any Compliance, Safety, Accountability BASIC (Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category) if the violation was a result of the crash. Unfortunately, according ...

FMCSA’s focus on inspections a point of contention at CVSA workshop

| April 23, 2013

Bulldog Hiway Express President Phil Byrd, speaking as First Vice Chair of the American Trucking Associations, delivered a salvo aimed at the national focus on roadside vehicle inspections during an April 23 General Session of ...

CSA priorities include addressing concerns of small carriers, crash accountability, agency says

| April 22, 2013

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Associate Administrator for Enforcement Bill Quade, speaking at the annual Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Workshop in Louisville, Ky., said the agency will move forward with making the new Hazardous Materials ...

CSA: Law enforcement/ driver perspective alignment

| April 22, 2013

I'm in Louisville, Ky., today at a Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance workshop on the life cycle of a roadside inspection violation (follow my Twitter feed for updates throughout the day, and stay tuned for news ...

Roadcheck out-of-service rates near historic lows

| August 15, 2012

During the 25th Annual Roadcheck roadside inspections, 22.4 percent of vehicles and 3.9 percent of drivers were placed out of service (OOS). The 74,072 truck and bus inspections were done June 5-7 by members of the ...

Hours and EOBRs: Operator challenge No. 2

| August 03, 2012

The trucking industry faces more restrictive hours of service restart rules starting in 2013, as well as the prospect of litigation further delaying that date or even changing the revised hours rule. That uncertainty is ...

LogBook

| July 02, 2012

Court rejects EPA’s Navistar exemption   A federal appeals court on June 12 rejected the Environment Protection Agency’s ruling that allowed Navistar to sell heavy-duty diesel engines that don’t meet the agency’s 2010 emissions standards limiting the ...

Heads-up: Senate EOBR mandate gets a push

| June 12, 2012

The mandate for interstate carriers in the United States to use electronic onboard recorders for hours of service tracking that is in the Senate's two-year highway bill proposal -- S. 1813, currently in conference with ...

Infographic: Owner-operators inspected four times more often than largest fleets

An infographic on Overdrive sister site CCJ shows some of the more disparate data that favors fleets over independents.

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