Tag: FMCSA: Page 71

Business

CSA audit begins as data quality comes into question

The DOT Inspector General wants to gauge whether FMCSA has in place adequate measures to make sure that the quality of data being used to evaluate carriers is sufficient.

January 17, 2013

Regulations

FMCSA opens enforcement toolkit for carriers

New materials from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration purport to help motor carriers manage safety issues in the prism of CSA.

January 11, 2013

Business

Driver fatigue criteria questioned in court

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has requested a federal court’s intervention in what it describes as FMCSA amending out-of-service criteria outside the rulemaking process.

January 4, 2013

Channel 19

Manage MCS-150 data for CSA scoring

It’s important for those with carrier authority to keep tabs on their annual self-reported vehicle-miles-traveled and power-unit information for CSA scoring purposes.

January 3, 2013

Voices

Breaking: Regulators apologize for delaying Santa

Regulators have determined the Claus operation is an imminent hazard to the motoring public and have ordered Santa to cease operation effective immediately.

December 24, 2012

Voices

Reasons for the rise in truck-occupant crash deaths

Readers weigh in on root causes after NHTSA’s examination of crash statistics showed a sharp rise in truck occupant crash fatalities (20 percent) between 2010 and 2011.

December 18, 2012

Channel 19

‘We’re the highway patrol and we’re here to help’

Why were you pulled in for your last inspection? If you don’t know, ask. The answer could prove useful in your long-term CSA management.

December 13, 2012

Business

Ferro: Safety Fitness Determination proposal coming in 2013

A proposed rule that would allow FMCSA to use a carrier’s CSA rankings to produce an overall safety rating will come in the first half of 2013, said FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro.

December 3, 2012

Voices

Reader: FMCSA attacks safety ‘from the wrong end of the beast’

“If rates were up where they should be, drivers wouldn’t have to complain about receiving and loading fees one bit.”

December 3, 2012

Business

Changes to violation weighting, more posted this weekend

Among changes taking place this week are the introduction of a new hazmat-specific BASIC and adjustments in various violation weights.

December 3, 2012

Voices

Does FMCSA’s medical card verification program violate HIPAA?

Short answer: Probably not. Here find a roundup of viewpoints from readers on this and other issues surrounding FMCSA’s new medical card-verification policy.

November 23, 2012

Channel 19

Redux: Have you seen your ‘CSA scorecard’?

With third party vendors providing tools to carriers to compute their drivers CSA scores, only one continues to take that functionality directly to the “drivers” of CSA — professional operators. Have you seen a tabulation of your CSA performance? We want to hear from you.

November 15, 2012