Tag: public view

Business
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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Business
Altered CSA Safety Measurement System back in the public eye
The FMCSA has returned an altered CSA SMS to public view, showing no percentile or other evaluative scoring in the BASIC categories of measurement.
January 13, 2016
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Channel 19
The tightening knot of ELDs, hours, parking: Channel 19 year in review, the finale
As in 2014 with the restart rollback, several issues came to a head in the last month of 2015, bring us back to where we started in this year in review: The problem with the hours of service, readers say, is a central safety issue.
December 31, 2015
September’s announced Brake Safety Week inspection blitz around the nation was trumped this year in some ways by a national brake-check day, unannounced, in early May.
Overdrive Radio
CSA scores pulled behind the curtain — what’s next?
Following FMCSA’s pull of the CSA SMS from public view, some signs that the CSA bell will continue to ring in carrier selection processes from brokers and shippers in the “private CSA world.” Some reader views, too, on FMCSA’s next move.
December 7, 2015
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Business
FMCSA removes CSA scores in wake of highway bill signing
As required by the FAST Act highway bill, signed into law by President Obama the afternoon of Dec. 4, FMCSA has pulled the CSA Safety Measurement System from public view.
December 4, 2015
Is the removal of CSA scores a victory for trucking? If you’re reading on a smartphone, tap the image to call and leave us a message to weigh in. We’ll round up responses in a special mailbag podcast. Alternately, drop a comment below. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence.
Business
FMCSA hits back on CSA effectiveness, defends accuracy of carrier rankings system
Amid increasing calls for the FMCSA to remove CSA rankings/scores from public view, a new analysis from FMCSA reiterates what the agency has said all along about the CSA Safety Measurement System: It’s effective.
October 8, 2015
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Voices
Analyst: CSA ‘sea change’ coming
Following broad movement among motor carrier groups and individual interactions at the Congressional level and throughout government, more than 80 percent of readers say yes to pulling back the reins on the CSA program.
May 13, 2015
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Voices
POLL: Where do you stand on industry call to remove CSA scores from public view?
Should carriers’ CSA SMS percentile rankings/scores be removed from public view? Weigh in via this poll.
April 28, 2015
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