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Business

Clean inspections account for a bigger share of checks; Updated state rankings for enforcement intensity

Total heavy-duty truck & driver inspection numbers rose by more than 70,000 in 2017, much of it accounted for by clean inspections. Read more about this.

August 22, 2018

Business

More states shift focus to hours-, ELD-related violations

Data show the extent to which more individual state truck enforcement departments are putting their attention in a big way on associated ELD mandate violations & hours.

August 17, 2018

Business

Some pain amidst the gains — CSA’s Data Trail after the e-log shift

Carriers with one to four trucks, whose hours violations as a share of all violations has been falling for years, claimed a larger percentage for the first four months of this year: This and other trends are detailed in Overdrive’s first CSA’s Data Trail update after the turn to ELDs.

August 16, 2018

Business

Complying with Congressional statute, FMCSA submits plan to reform CSA

The FMCSA has filed a report with Congress sharing reforms it expects to institute to the CSA carrier safety rating program. Learn more on Overdrive.

August 14, 2018

Business

FMCSA head Martinez eyes dialogue around hours of service reforms, stronger relations with trucking

Check out Overdrive's exclusive interview with Ray Martinez in which he discusses hours of service, ELDs, detention time, and FMCSA/industry relationship.

August 7, 2018

Business

FMCSA to begin testing new carrier safety scoring system this fall

FMCSA has issued a reporting detailing how it plans to proceed in reforming its CSA program. Chief among the changes is replacing the existing CSA Safety Measurement System with a new scoring system, which the agency says it will begin testing in September.

July 17, 2018

Business

Proposed CSA changes tabled amid broader program overhaul

The changes, proposed in 2015 by FMCSA, tried to better align CSA’s Safety Measurement System BASIC scores with carriers’ risk of being involved in a crash.

July 13, 2018

Voices

POLL: Independents/small fleets, do your CSA scores still matter as a condition of doing business?

Since CSA scores were pulled in 2015, Overdrive wants to know if you feel like they're still being used as a condition of doing business.

July 4, 2018

Channel 19

The Roadcheck effect: Vacations, business as usual and a growing violation category

With Roadcheck inspections in full swing for June 2018, data from Overdrive and RigDig show violation totals have risen slightly over the past two years.

June 7, 2018

Business

FMCSA boss Martinez tells Congress ELDs a first step toward adding hours flexibility

Ray Martinez, head of the FMCSA, thinks so and expressed to Congressional lawmakers how the ELD mandate should lead to hours of service flexibility.

May 30, 2018

Channel 19

Credit (or lack thereof) for clean, redux: Overdimensional haulers in inspectors’ crosshairs over visible violations

Calvin Dahl has a new approach to CSA scoring and inspection violations, specifically for oversize haulers. Read the details here on Overdrive.

May 9, 2018

Business

CVSA’s new working committee on crash data and investigations aims to establishment fairness, uniform practice

A motorist’s crash that didn’t touch a truck but ended up on a carrier’s record as a fatality because the motorist ended up deceased under the trailer highlights the pursuit of fairness in crash investigation with consistent reporting protocols that is among goals of CVSA’s new working crash committee.

April 27, 2018