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Crashes and interventions: Crackdown!

Todd Dills | May 10, 2013

Previously in the CSA’s Data Trail “Crashes and interventions” installment: "Wreck frequency varies widely by state" The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has been on a tear over the last year with the issuance of imminent-hazard ...

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Crashes and interventions: Wreck frequency varies widely by state

Todd Dills | May 08, 2013

Previously in the CSA’s Data Trail “Crashes and interventions” installment: "CSA's crash flaw" Where is a collision with a heavy-duty truck most likely to happen? That dubious distinction goes to New Jersey. The ranking is based on ...

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Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw

Todd Dills | May 06, 2013

Previously in the CSA’s Data Trail "Crashes and interventions" installment: “Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking” The largest truck fleets show crash rates well above that of one-truck carriers, yet the megafleet trucks and drivers are inspected at ...

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Crashes and interventions: Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking

Todd Dills | May 03, 2013

In FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System, this symbol indicates a carrier’s ranking in a certain BASIC has exceeded the intervention or “alert” threshold, marking the carrier for investigative action. Previously in the CSA's Data Trail "Crashes ...

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

Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2013

An infographic posted on Overdrive sister site CCJ — and part of Overdrive's yearlong CSA's Data Trail series — shows some of CSA's most disparate data by pointing out the four to one ration in which owner-operators are ...

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Crashes and interventions: The fault handicap

Todd Dills | May 01, 2013

The trucking industry has complained about the unfairness of the lack of crash accountability in determining what crashes contribute to carriers’ Compliance, Safety, Accountability profiles since CSA Safety Measurement System data became publicly available in ...

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Delving into CSA data shows enforcement irregularities

Max Heine | May 01, 2013

Close analysis of inspections, alerts and out-of-service orders under CSA reveals enforcement disparities with positive and/or negative implications for carriers of different sizes, according to RigDig Business Intelligence data analyzed by Overdrive and Commercial ...

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Bypass systems reduce inspection likelihood

Todd Dills | April 03, 2013

B&D Transport owner-operator Brad Lambert uses the PrePass weigh-station bypassing system in his 2003 Freightliner Century at a cost of $13.50 a month, discounted via his Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association membership. “I don’t get ...

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CSA'S DATA TRAIL

Inconsistent enforcement: CSA’s heat index

State inspection intensity ratings range from Maryland, where 32 inspections per lane-mile of National Highway System were conducted during CSA's first two year, to Idaho, where only two inspections per lane-mile were done.