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Tag: CSA scores

Do we need a rulemaking on crash ‘preventability’ as a standard for removal from carrier scores?

Yes, according to the Motor Carrier Regulatory Reform coalition. Too many around the industry conflate “preventability” with fault, creating blowback potential particularly for truckers with accidents on their record for which they have no legal liability yet that get deemed “preventable” and labeled as such.

September 5, 2019

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Devil’s in the data: Regulators seek sources, improvements for CSA revamp at public meeting

Check out how the FMCSA is developing its funnel-like IRT model and taking steps towards reforming the Compliance, Safety, Accountability system.

August 29, 2018

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Some pain amidst the gains — CSA’s Data Trail after the e-log shift

Carriers with one to four trucks, whose hours violations as a share of all violations has been falling for years, claimed a larger percentage for the first four months of this year: This and other trends are detailed in Overdrive’s first CSA’s Data Trail update after the turn to ELDs.

August 16, 2018

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POLL: Independents/small fleets, do your CSA scores still matter as a condition of doing business?

Since CSA scores were pulled in 2015, Overdrive wants to know if you feel like they're still being used as a condition of doing business.

July 4, 2018

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A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise

In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.

December 27, 2017

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Next steps for CSA — scores behind the curtain or not?

Will the FMCSA press forward with CSA SMS changes to bring scores back to public view or allow the SMS to remain a “half-baked solution sitting in the dark”? For the ASECTT group, there could be a third way forward for the agency…

July 6, 2017

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ASECTT group presses ahead on CSA, safety rating reform and other issues

In addition to its chief concern over reliance on CSA SMS scores in safety assessment, ASECTT now turns attention to reform of the safety-audit system and federal preemption of state wage/hour laws and independent contractor classification, among other issues.

June 23, 2017

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Are small carriers singled out for inspection? Short answer: Yes

FMCSA routinely bumps the Inspection Selection System scores of “data-insufficient” carriers — i.e. those who haven’t been inspected enough to product CSA SMS scores — to 99, making bypass systems virtually useless and ensuring more inspections.

November 7, 2016

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Carrier ‘absolute measure’ scores return to five CSA categories

Each carrier’s CSA SMS profile now includes in its public view each carrier’s “absolute measure” score in five of the seven BASIC categories of analysis.

March 7, 2016

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FAST Act highway bill: What trucking measures made it, what didn’t

In: Major CSA reform, expansion of driver drug testing, detention study and more. Out: Younger truckers and a measure that could have harmed small business truckers.

December 2, 2015

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ScoopMonkey’s new ‘CSA Score Explainer’ tool

The broker/carrier business-to-business online rating and review service is taking up carriers’ and brokers’ concerns with the CSA SMS, offering “technology’s response to the ineffectiveness and incompleteness of CSA scores.”

November 17, 2015

One carrier’s measure in the Vehicle Maintenance BASIC changing over time, as shown today in the CSA SMS.

House passes CSA-stripping highway bill; legislation would expand driver drug testing, implement carrier ‘hiring standards’

The U.S. House of Representatives passed by a 363-64 vote Thursday, Nov. 4, a multi-year highway bill that would strip the DOT’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program of its publicly available carrier rankings and require regulators to rework the program.

November 5, 2015

CSA’s SMS percentile rankings would, under the House bill, be removed from public view until FMCSA implements fixes to the program.

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