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

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 ...

ATRI seeking driver feedback on CSA

Roadcheck will cover North America. For the third year in a row, the American Transportation Research Institute wants to hear from drivers about their experiences with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability ...

POLL: Have you experienced a CSA intervention since Dec. 2010?

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. ATA's report — a round-up of studies done in ...

Load securement: Minding your CSA score

Drivers at Maverick must go through load securement classes during a week of hands-on training and exercises. Though tailored for an audience of fleet managers and executives, Overdrive's and sister site CCJ's Equipment Editor Jack Roberts has ...

Report: Car drivers at fault in nearly 80 percent of car-truck crashes

In pulling together several significant studies from the last decade, the American Trucking Associations has released a report concluding that many more times than not, drivers of cars are at fault in fatal car-truck crashes, ...

Industry, safety advocates split on CSA ‘work in progress’

A CSA Subcommittee this week concluded three prioritized issues to take to a full committee later this year — crash accountability, data quality issues, public display of carriers' Safety Measurement System scores. The CSA Subcommittee to ...

Panel highlights CSA data-quality issues

Industry-wide frustration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program was well apparent in the two days of meetings of an FMCSA advisory committee held this week. Representatives of motor carriers, law enforcement, ...