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Overdrive Extra
You read it here first: CSA’s built-in unfairness
With the March and May issue installments of Overdrive’s CSA Data Trail stories, Senior Editor Todd Dills scooped GAO’s report this week by at least seven months.
February 4, 2014
CSA
Business
Drivewyze: Free weigh-station alert function for app
The PreClear weigh-station bypassing service is out in a new version, PreClear 3.0, which includes a feature available to app users without a subscription — a free nationwide weigh station and inspection site alert service.
January 30, 2014
Readers with Android phones can take advantage of the new weigh-station alert functionality of the Drivewyze PreClear app via this link.
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
Business
CSA safety measurement system display changes now available for review
Among the changes being proposed are de-emphasizing BASIC percentile rankings and better describing so-called “absolute” carrier BASIC measures’ relationship to scoring.
November 4, 2013
snapshot from sample carrier BASICs
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
Say no to stacked light violations
An advocate, going to bat for a driver hit with five “stacked” lighting violations during an inspection, uncovers some intel on a potential final fix for stacking ongoing via CVSA/FMCSA development work. High time for it. . .
September 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
Some jurisdictions ‘do not compute’ new restart limitations
Uproar in an hours session at GATS yields intel on some jurisdictions’ faulty interpretations of the revised restart provisions in the new hours rule.
August 29, 2013
Hours of service packed house at GATS
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
Oral arguments set for CSA suit
The suit brought by the Alliance for Safe and Efficient Truck Transportation (ASECTT), filed last year in federal district court in Washington, D.C., will see first oral arguments made Sept. 10.
July 27, 2013
inspection
Business
Agency clears phones, GPS systems for use as bypass transponders
Smartphones, tablets, global positioning system navigation units and onboard telematics devices have all been cleared by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for use as transponders in commercial trucks
July 23, 2013
weigh station scales
Channel 19
‘Wireless Roadside Inspection’ inches closer to reality
Mobile communications technology stands to transform the way truck inspections take place, with big implications for the CSA program and owner-operator businesses.
June 27, 2013
On-site in 2011 for the final day of a Wireless Roadside Inspection test project, also the day FMCSA proposed to mandate electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance.
Voices
Team driver to law enforcement: ‘Don’t wake me up’
This letter from reader Martin Hill calls for state/federal law enforcement and inspection staff to cease practice of forcing sleeping codrivers awake for nothing more than an I.D. check.
June 21, 2013
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