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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
Business
FMCSA’s focus on inspections a point of contention at CVSA workshop
ATA representative Phil Byrd challenged the enforcement community to shift priorities away from inspections to traffic enforcement. Also: Regulatory update from FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro.
April 23, 2013
Inspection in Franklin County, Kentucky
Channel 19
CSA: Law enforcement/ driver perspective alignment
Though drivers’ No. 1 named CSA problem in recent polling is the deterioration in driver/officer relationships, an interview with CVSA’s Stephen Keppler shows some concurrence on the system’s problems.
April 22, 2013
In January, Overdrive polled readers on some of the biggest problems with CSA.
Regulations
Bypass systems reduce inspection likelihood
Bypass systems work well for carriers with a good safety-performance history to help them avoid the extra scrutiny rolling over the scales gets a truck and its driver.
April 3, 2013
truck highway
Regulations
Inconsistent enforcement: Know your vulnerabilities
Inspectors around the nation know well the low-hanging fruit for violations in certain industry segments.
March 29, 2013
CSA’s Data Trail Part 2, inconsistent enforcement
Business
Inconsistent enforcement: Insist on inspection, not citation
The way the DataQs challenge system is working suggests conventional wisdom about citations and CSA scores is flawed, with the issue of unfinished clean inspections looming larger for carriers looking to improve CSA scores.
March 27, 2013
If you have a CSA score above the intervention threshold in one or more of the BASICs, you need clean inspections to improve scores in a timely manner, such as vehicle inspections resulting in application of a Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance decal.
Business
Inconsistent enforcement: CSA’s heat index
State inspection intensity ratings range from Maryland, where 32 inspections per lane-mile of National Highway System were conducted during CSA’s first two year, to Idaho, where only two inspections per lane-mile were done.
March 25, 2013
CSA’s heat index
Business
Owner-operators leading new Drivewyze sign-ups
The Drivewyze PreClear weigh-station bypassing service is operational at 218 sites in 15 states across the nation, with the I-81 corridor well-covered.
March 21, 2013
Drivewyze PreClear is operational at 218 sites in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia and Nevada. Click through the image for the system’s coverage map.
Business
Inconsistent enforcement: CSA vs. the independent
In the two years since CSA’s advent, the smallest carriers have had a much greater chance of getting inspected and put out of service than drivers and trucks of the largest carriers.
March 14, 2013
brake adjustment inspection
Voices
Letter: ‘No gray areas’ for maintenance?
“To be super safe perhaps we should all park our vehicles when the first snowflake falls.” –owner-operator Glenn Gilbert
March 14, 2013
Business
Two-day blitz places 109 drivers out of service
Nearly 100 of those drivers were sidelined for log violations during the two-day blitz on I-10 in Eastern Arizona.
March 7, 2013
Arizona DPS shoulder patch
Voices
Operators losing business because of CSA
Data quality and negative business impact stood out as key operator concerns as readers responded to early-2013 CSA reporting.
February 19, 2013
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