Tag: crash fault

Business
NTSB blames fatal car-truck crash on tired motorist
NTSB’s report states that a 2013 Hyundai Elantra, occupied by an 18-year-old driver and three passengers ranging in age from 17 to 19, lost control of the vehicle, crossed the median on U.S. Highway 77 and collided with a 2009 Freightliner.
February 3, 2017
The National Transportation Safety Board determined a crash between a 2013 Hyundai Elantra and a 2009 Freightliner was caused by fatigue from the driver of the Hyundai. NTSB found the driver of the car overcorrected from drifting toward the median, lost control and spun across the median before colliding with a truck. (Photo from NTSB crash report)
Voices
Voices on NYT’s ‘Trucks are killing us’ column: Readers respond, ATA says column riddled with ‘falsehoods’
“Why waste print to tell so many lies, when you can actually help the issues that truly affect the entire line of all phases of transportation?” –Matt Whitelaw on the “Trucks Are Killing Us” op-ed
August 25, 2015
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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
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Business
CSA’s Fallout: SMS/safety rating system disconnect compounds problems
While official safety rating element of FMCSA’s enforcement program remains, the CSA SMS runs alongside it, giving a more real-time window into inspections, violations and crashes. However, the difference between results produced by each is marked.
June 4, 2014
Keep tuned to OverdriveOnline.com for more from Part One of this yearlong series on real-world fallout from the CSA carrier safety ranking program. Access all of our past special coverage of CSA via this page.
Business
CSA crash-weighting study to be released in June, FMCSA says
Full implementation of the Safety Fitness Determination rule, which would replace the current safety-rating system, could follow two years after a hoped-for September proposal. More news from MCSAC’s CSA Subcommittee meeting…
April 29, 2014
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 the stories in our 2013 CSA’s Data Trail series.
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.
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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.
Voices
Readers on the crash-fault ‘shell game’
In denying the possibility of fault determination, advocacy groups ignore the majority of car-truck crashes.
March 17, 2013
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Business
Truck safety group challenges ATA on crash fault claims
The American Trucking Associations has received a letter from the Truck Safety Coalition that blasts the association for its recently released report regarding crash fault and accountability.
February 27, 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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