CSA's Data Trail: Page 4

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Common ground: New Mexico’s inspection-heavy enforcement program
Capt. Greg Kerr of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety’s truck-enforcement unit has thoughts about highway safety that truck drivers may find familiar and sensible. Chiefly: He understands that four-wheelers are ‘part of the problem’ with safety.
September 9, 2016
New Mexico’s heavy roadside presence and active inspection program produces one of the highest inspection-intensity rankings nationwide. Violation concentrations are what you would expect from such a targeted approach, with hours of service, speeding and light violations ranking high in its violation mix. However, the state’s inspectors’ reputation for fairness is underscored by its low violations-per-inspection rate and relatively high percentage of clean inspections. Access data for all 48 continental states via the download and interactive maps at this CSA’s Data Trail main hub.
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Inspections: Top 10 states where enforcement’s hot
Maryland and California maintain the No. 1 and No. 2 spots atop the list of the most-intense states for total inspections, measured per lane-mile of National Highway System in the state’s borders.
July 13, 2016
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Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills wins three major journalism awards
Overdrive and Senior Editor Todd Dills won Best Series for CSA’s Data Trail, a continuation of the series that received business-to-business media’s highest honor, the Grand Neal, in 2014. He also won Neals for Best Data Journalist and Best Range of Work.
April 4, 2016
Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills’ CSA-related work this year concentrated mostly on the variability in state to state enforcement, one of the major flaws with the CSA system. Click here or the photo above to see all of the articles posted in the CSA’s Data Trail series.
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Roadside heat waning in Illinois
After a focus on moving violations led to a dramatic climb up Overdrive’s state inspection-intensity rankings in 2014, the Illinois State Police show signs of backing off.
November 24, 2015
Illinois’ top-10 inspection intensity ranking in 2014 was a relatively new phenomenon for the Land of Lincoln. In 2014 alone, the state climbed 15 places to No. 7. Illinois is clearly a leader in the stats for the high percentage of moving-type violations it marks on inspection reports. That emphasis coincides with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s goal in recent years to have states focus on the causes underpinning most at-fault truck accidents, as opposed to maintenance violations that show much less causation. Illinois also is not shy about giving credit where it’s due, with an above-average rate of clean inspections logged. That share has grown since 2011 by about 20 percent.
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No breaks for brakes: Virginia State Police lead the nation in brake violation focus
The latest in Overdrive's CSA's Data Trail series shows a no-frills approach to inspections also puts Virginia near the top for maintenance violations overall.
October 30, 2015
State enforcement personnel rank in the top five for violations per inspection and just out of the top 10 for percentage of clean inspections. Virginia also leads all states in brake violations as a percentage of its total issued violations in 2014, a measure of the state’s focus that has seen a 22 percent rise since calendar year 2011. Source: Unless otherwise noted, all numbers based on 2014 federal data analyzed by RigDig Business Intelligence (rigdig.com/bi)
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Top 15 most intense states for maintenance, brake violations
Updated with 2019 data, find more insight here on what truckers can expect of -- and where expect it from -- law enforcement during 2020 Brake Safety Week.
October 13, 2015
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Business
Inspection hot zone along the southern border
No area of the country shows such a contiguous grouping of high-inspection-intensity states as the four states lining the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
September 29, 2015
Arizona border effect map
Business
The new top hours of service enforcer
No state issued a higher percentage of hours violations in 2014 than this one. Training has helped officials find their ‘comfort zone’ enforcing the ever-shifting regs nationwide, but especially in this state.
September 7, 2015
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Business
Top 10 toughest states on hours of service violations
Oregon was the 2013 leader on this list, and its percentage of issued hour infractions fell by only a point in our analysis of the 2014 data. Three states rose to a much larger degree in the hours rankings…
September 1, 2015
Top states for Hours violations 2014 map
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Top 10 most intense states for inspection violations
This top-ten hall of fame — or shame, depending on your perspective — is actually a top 11, showing states in which the most violations per individual inspection were written throughout calendar year 2014.
July 31, 2015
Click through the image for a full slate of interactive map graphics ranking states in a variety of categories relative to inspection and violation intensity through years 2011-14. All data included are based on information from the federal system analyzed by RigDig Business Intelligence and Overdrive.
Business
Decreasing inspections, enforcement variability as movement against CSA gains steam
With Roadcheck ramping up Tuesday, June 2, Overdrive’s annual update to the winding CSA’s Data Trail shows a downward national inspection intensity trend, though some key states move in the opposite direction.
June 1, 2015
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Close scrutiny: Pennsylvania rises up the inspection-intensity ranks
Pennsylvania’s enforcement program might be the most mobile in the nation — the No. 2 state for inspection intensity in 2013, the state conducts the large majority of its inspections away from any scale.
September 12, 2014
For this and the next several months, we’ll profile states that stand out for their enforcement intensity, violation propensity or other reasons. For more detail by state, you can access interactive maps charting a raft of enforcement data via Overdrive’s CSA’s Data Trail site at this link.
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Close scrutiny: Where are you most likely to be inspected?
That distinction goes to Maryland, followed by Pennsylvania — while both are heavy on inspections, their rate of issuing violations falls below the national average. Find a look at Maryland’s program here.
September 10, 2014
For this and the next several months, we’ll profile states that stand out for their enforcement intensity, violation propensity or other reasons. For more detail by state, you can access interactive maps charting a raft of enforcement data via Overdrive’s CSA’s Data Trail site at this link.
Business
CSA’s Fallout: Trapped in a CSA nightmare
Part 1 of this story of how one small fleet operator got stuck in “safety jail” as a Conditional safety rating, a high BASIC score in hours and violations compounded and business vanished.
July 7, 2014
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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.
Overdrive Extra
CSA’s mad math: Readers right on lack of reliability
Clearly the “A” in CSA isn’t working when the data being accounted for paint a distorted picture. The result is a system where too many small carriers are assumed guilty until proven innocent.
June 3, 2014
When a clean inspection can hurt an independent’s rating, something’s wrong with the system.
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CSA’s Fallout: Scoring reliability woes dominate independents’ concerns
Overdrive’s 2014 CSA survey shows independents are most concerned about reliability of scores, but the system’s many flaws haven’t halted third-party use of the rankings in business decisions.
June 3, 2014
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Preps for Brake Safety Week, starting tomorrow
Brake maintenance tips and resources from longtime brake system components manufacturer Bendix — and the top states for brake inspections/violations.
September 7, 2013
Inspection in Franklin County, Kentucky
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