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Overdrive Radio
Jeff Clark for FMCSA Administrator? And: Lookback Tony Justice podcast
Operator Jeff Clark fires up the campaign machine, and a lookback podcast performance from Tony Justice — Dave Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road” and Justice’s own “Who Needs Heaven.”
March 7, 2015
Tony Justice drives for Greenville, Tenn.-based Everhart Transportation. Find more about his most recent record, “Apple Pie Moonshine,” in the story and podcast at this link.
Channel 19
Will FMCSA ‘un-ring’ the CSA alarm?
Reader Thomas Little may best have paraphrased the thoughts of many: With CSA, “FMCSA fully intended” to “let the industry do their policing for them. Spoon-feed the detailed data into the marketplace to drive consumer choice of motor carrier … and then stand back and pretend that wasn’t how CSA was supposed to be used… They won’t be able to unring that bell.”
August 27, 2014
Public scrutiny of safety ratings in the CSA SMS is live with the recent update to the public display. Placed front and center of a carrier’s front page in the CSA SMS now is carrier’s current safety rating, often at odds with what percentile rankings in the SMS seem to say about the carrier’s safety.
Business
FMCSA finalizes changes to data collection to account for due process in roadside citations
Starting Aug. 23, FMCSA will implement changes to data collection system to account for any legal processes that happen after citations are issued in a roadside inspections that could result in removal of the violation from a driver’s or carrier’s record.
June 3, 2014
Indiana State Trooper inspection under truck
Business
Crash accountability in CSA scores, changes to DataQs higlight CSA update
A study that evaluates both the impact of implementing crash fault weighting into CSA scores and FMCSA’s ability to implement such a system is still being reviewed by the agency and peers prior to its release, said an FMCSA official this week.
March 29, 2014
truck crash
Business
CSA crash-weighting study coming soon; MCSAC subcommittee hiatus after April meeting
With the Crash Weighting Research Plan study results due before the end of the month and the SFD rulemaking to hit OMB in spring, the MCSAC CSA Subcommittee stressed continuing CSA problems going into its last meeting for the year, if not longer.
February 13, 2014
Find a variety of ways to manage the CSA program, as well as discussions of the regime’s inequities and what’s being done to challenge them, via our 2013 CSA’s Data Trail series main page.
Channel 19
Running in reverse: Channel 19 year in review, part 1
Big themes for the year reared their heads in the first quarter on the blog, from upcoming CARB deadlines to increasing angst over CSA. Take a tour back through the year via this review.
December 26, 2013
Melvin Davis’ custom 1988 Freightliner FLD
Channel 19
The drones are coming! The drones are coming!
Amazon Prime Air a big joke? — “The data systems (CSA, PSP …) tracking our lives and businesses, in the end, require much more of our attention and time than any airborne threat…”
December 3, 2013
Amazon prime-air
Channel 19
Light violations aren’t the only ones being stacked
Readers offer further examples of multiple violations written that stem from one root cause, known as “stacking” and discouraged at the federal level.
October 24, 2013
Find a variety of ways to manage the CSA program, as well as discussions of the regime’s inequities and what’s being done to challenge them, via our CSA’s Data Trail main page.
Channel 19
CSA: DataQ opportunity with lights, generic speeding violations
The most common lighting-related violation — top 20 states for “Inoperative required lamp” prevalence ranked here — may be basis for a DataQ challenge if the light is not required by regulation.
August 15, 2013
Follow this link for further diagrams and information on all required lamps as specified in FMCSA regulations.
Business
OOIDA sues agency over violation appeals process
OOIDA is suing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for the second time in a year over its violation appeals process.
May 24, 2013
inspection csa
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
Channel 19
How to DataQ: 9 tips
Indiana State Police DataQs coordinator Michael Wilson shared these at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance workshop April 22, 2013.
April 23, 2013
DataQs website edit
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