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Business
‘e-Inspection’ technology demonstrated in Maryland
Deployed by the Drivewyze bypass service provider with technology partners, hopes for so-called electronic inspections are that they’d ultimately by accepted by FMCSA as credit on a carrier’s CSA profile.
June 18, 2013
Partner to the demonstration was the XRS mobile electronic-logs/telematics platform, which entered general release in March 2013, runs on more than 50 types of devices and automatically transmits vehicle and operator data directly to a management dashboard. The subscription-based monthly service features varying pricing levels, dependent on package and functionality. Every XRS package includes an XRS Relay in-cab device that communicates via Bluetooth with the driver’s existing smartphone or tablet.
Business
FMCSA subcommittee to meet next week, discuss CSA improvements
The agency’s CSA subcommittee will meet to discuss improving the Safety Measurement System and the agency’s intervention and investigative processes.
June 12, 2013
CSA
Channel 19
Profilin’ — not so stylin’ — at the scale house
Has FMCSA’s CSA program had an unintended (or, perhaps, intended) consequence of giving inspectors license to hassle small operators simply for the fact that they are small companies?
June 9, 2013
engine compartment inspection
Business
CSA’s kinks: Agency working on new site, possibly changing scoring
An FMCSA rep says a new site is coming for public display of CSA scores to more accurately portray safety risk in an attempt to mitigate carriers’ concerns of the public nature of the scores.
June 6, 2013
inspection
Business
Be wary: Annual Roadcheck inspection blitz taking place this week
Roadcheck, the annual inspection blitz done by a joint effort of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and others, will take place June 4-6 this year.
June 5, 2013
Roadcheck Will Cover North America
Business
Driver shut down after crashing tanker while drinking
FMCSA has ordered Bobby Cleveland to cease operation after — while drinking — he overturned his truck while hauling 2,400 gallons of propane.
May 22, 2013
Voices
Carriers, drivers aligned on need for shift in enforcement priorities
Following a speech at the 2013 CVSA spring workshop which decried states’ outsize inspection focus, Overdrive readers responded largely positively to a message of new traffic-enforcement priorities.
May 14, 2013
inspection
Overdrive Extra
Managing the monster known as CSA
There is no quick fix for getting reckless drivers and carriers off the road. But as with most ambitious government initiatives, what’s needed is more simplicity, not less.
May 11, 2013
One-truck independents get inspected more often than larger carriers.
Business
Court hears new case against pilot program with Mexico
Just 18 days after ruling to uphold the program, a federal court heard new arguments May 6 against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s cross-border trucking pilot program with Mexico.
May 8, 2013
mexico
Channel 19
Watch those post-crash-inspection violations
They shouldn’t be assigned severity weights to contribute to a carrier’s ranking in any CSA BASIC if the violation was a result of the crash.
May 6, 2013
rollover crash
Business
Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw
Independent owner-operators have the lowest rate of truck-involved crashes but are far more likely to be put out of service than drivers for carriers with 500 or more trucks, which have a higher crash rate.
May 6, 2013
Click through the chart above for a larger view. SOURCE: RigDig Business Intelligence (rigdig.com/bi) and Overdrive analysis of federally recordable truck-involved crash data for years 2010-12. Carriers represented include the total registered population with at least one inspection over the course of those years and with some version of for-hire operating authority.
Regulations
Crashes and interventions: Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking
The FMCSA’s quick-strike sweep through “high-risk” passenger carriers, say officials, will be hitting our industry sooner rather than later. Knowing the agency’s definition of a high-risk carrier is your first step in avoiding involuntary shutdown.
May 3, 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.
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