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Channel 19
High driver turnover correlated with higher OOS, crash volumes and CSA scores
Data firm Vigillo found a close correlation between high turnover and generally more negative carrier numbers in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s compliance rating program. Also: FAST Act CSA requirements update — suggested CSA changes expected late Spring/early Summer.
February 28, 2017
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Alert to DOT: Industry shows unity against safety-rating change in light of CSA’s problems
A recent letter, urging DOT to scrap the Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking as premature, brings in a large variety of state and private industry associations as signatories, including ATA, OOIDA, NASTC and WSTA. The broad nature of the coalition should “indicate how seriously everyone views this issue.”
February 20, 2017
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Channel 19
A little learnin’ and its opposite: Channel 19 year in review, part 2
Part 2 in this year in review picks up with Wes Memphis’ transition to e-logs and plenty “unlearning” to be done …
December 29, 2016
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Fighting tickets: Don’t forget DataQs to clear your PSP/CSA record
While prospective employers/lessors aren’t strictly required to use FMCSA’s PSP reports to view prospective drivers’ roadside inspection violations and recordable crashes, plenty do. Any violation marked on an inspection report will be included there going back three years, and any crash, five years.
December 28, 2016
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Channel 19
FMCSA and some states sharpen audit teeth with ‘enhanced investigative techniques’
‘EIT’ in the parlance of acronym-happy bureaucratese, Jeff Davis of Fleet Safety Services likened new investigative approaches of auditors to another EIT, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques — or ‘compliance-review waterboarding,’ so to speak …
December 16, 2016
“What’s it mean when a bunch of exclamation marks pop up on my computer?” —Anonymous Tennessee state trooper, after checking a carrier’s DOT number, to a driver he’d just put through a Level 3 inspection — and clear evidence understanding of the CSA Safety Measurement System isn’t total among law enforcement. The driver knew what those marks meant — alerts that the carrier’s category scores were higher than FMCSA’s intervention thresholds — but didn’t exactly offer to help the officer. He was on his way shortly.
Channel 19
Do you carry CVSA’s out-of-service criteria book?
Former inspector/officer Andy Blair argues the book is anyone’s best resource for challenging an out-of-service violation — and an effective tool for other challenges as well. If only its electronic version was free, readers note…
December 3, 2016
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Channel 19
Are small carriers singled out for inspection? Short answer: Yes
FMCSA routinely bumps the Inspection Selection System scores of “data-insufficient” carriers — i.e. those who haven’t been inspected enough to product CSA SMS scores — to 99, making bypass systems virtually useless and ensuring more inspections.
November 7, 2016
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Business
Washington state: Putting the move on moving violations, logs
The one-two combination of hours of service and traffic enforcement packs the biggest punch for Washington State — with a technology assist.
November 2, 2016
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Channel 19
Mere inches of a near miss: Quick evasive action saves truck from sure disaster
This dashcam vid comes from the Connecticut-based 250-truck Bozzuto’s fleet. Says Tom Halpin, transportation safety manager at Bozzuto’s: “In the words of the driver,” one of Bozzuto’s most senior, “‘I don’t know if [the motorist] fell asleep or was distracted.’ It was mere inches in a near miss.”
October 12, 2016
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Business
Comment period opens for proposed CSA changes, FMCSA hosting Q&A sessions
the main changes available for preview include lowering intervention thresholds for some SMS categories, raising the threshold in one BASIC and making the Hazmat BASIC public. The agency also has proposed upping the minimum number of crashes needed before registering a Crash Indicator BASIC ranking.
October 6, 2016
This mock SMS drilldown on FMCSA’s SMS Preview site shows how the threshold changes impact carriers above the current 80 percent threshold but below the proposed 90 percent threshold.
Business
Owner-ops can preview altered CSA scores based on FMCSA’s proposed changes
Changes to intervention thresholds, BASIC ratings, crash figures and more are on deck, FMCSA says, and carriers can preview the changes to their own SMS ratings here…
October 4, 2016
Bye-bye alert triangle | This mock SMS drilldown on FMCSA’s SMS Preview site shows how the threshold changes impact carriers above the current 80 percent threshold but below the proposed 90 percent threshold.
Business
Credit for clean: ‘Finishing the job’ on violation-free inspections
Mississippi far exceeding all states when it comes to helping truckers by issuing clean inspections. According to state officials, that could change with some more precise targeting in the future.
August 2, 2016
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