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Overdrive Radio
CSA scores pulled behind the curtain â whatâs next?
Following FMCSAâs 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 âprivate CSA world.â Some reader views, too, on FMCSAâs next move.
December 7, 2015
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
Business
Highway bill passed by House, moves to Senate for final approval
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the five-year, $305 billion highway-funding bill that was agreed upon by a conference committee Dec. 1.
December 3, 2015
Business
FAST Act highway bill: What trucking measures made it, what didnât
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
Business
Trucking industry weighs in on CSA, other provisions of FAST Act highway bill
Trucking stakeholder groups weighed in after a Congressional conference announced a five-year unified highway bill. Whatâs your view? Call 530-408-6423 to weigh in yourself.
December 2, 2015
Business
Unified long-term highway bill announced, would remove CSA scores from view until program reformed
A group of 12 senators and 28 representatives reached an agreement Dec. 1 on a five-year highway bill, the Fixing Americaâs Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.
December 1, 2015
Channel 19
âPoison pillâ for independents reportedly out of highway bill
House-Senate reconciliation of differing versions of a long-term highway bill, announced Tuesday afternoon, notably excluded âinterim hiring standardsâ language that excluded unrated carriers.
December 1, 2015
Business
Highway funding extended two weeks with Presidentâs signature
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday, Nov. 20, a bill to extend highway funding for two weeks.
November 23, 2015
Channel 19
ScoopMonkeyâs new âCSA Score Explainerâ tool
The broker/carrier business-to-business online rating and review service is taking up carriersâ and brokersâ concerns with the CSA SMS, offering âtechnologyâs response to the ineffectiveness and incompleteness of CSA scores.â
November 17, 2015
Channel 19
Driver voices raised against highway bill amendment to resolve state/federal legal conflicts
Protection of independent/small-fleet business freedom or âwage theftâ from company drivers? A growing conflict over a highway-bill amendment as House-Senate conference gets under way.
November 16, 2015
Business
Ode to the highway bill
Rhyming couplets for the road: âHere I sit, all pieced and sideways / Came to fix the broken highways / Ended up a pork-filled deed / To satisfy the gubmint greed âŚâ
November 13, 2015
Business
Congress to attempt to hammer out unified highway bill, owner-op âpoison pill,â size/weight already see action
Of key trucking interests on the table heading into the conference committee are potential inclusions of size and weight changes and, perhaps more pressing for owner-operators, fixing language in the bill that could potentially create havoc for about 450,000 carriers, many of them small fleets and owner-operators.
November 12, 2015
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