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Business
Decreasing inspections, enforcement variability as movement against CSA gains steam
With Roadcheck ramping up Tuesday, June 2, Overdrive’s annual update to the winding CSA’s Data Trail shows a downward national inspection intensity trend, though some key states move in the opposite direction.
June 1, 2015
inspection barn
Business
Geographically undesirable: Q&A with Indiana, S.C. enforcement reps
Efficacy and fairness of the federal CSA program questioned given broad geographical differences in approaches to enforcement. More from this candid talk at TCA’s Safety/Security Division meet.
May 5, 2015
CV Barrett 3
Business
CVSA joins industry in call for CSA SMS scores to be removed from public view
In a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx dated Nov. 14, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance echoed industry calls for CSA’s SMS scores to be removed from public view.
November 21, 2014
Access a special report from July on business impact of CSA scores’ public availability 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
Coalition of trucking groups calls for removal of public CSA scores
Ten trucking groups sent a letter to the DOT pleading for the public scores in the CSA program to be removed from public view, pointing to research that says the scores are not a reliable predictor of safety.
August 26, 2014
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Business
New study highlights state truck enforcement disparities
The new report, from ATRI, stresses that the different priorities and violation issuance rates across states dramatically undermine the uniformity of CSA.
July 31, 2014
Indiana State Trooper inspection under truck
Business
Consultant: New CSA wave washing ashore
Regulatory compliance expert Jeff Davis says a virtual tsunami of regulations directly or indirectly related to CSA has begun to hit the trucking industry.
June 25, 2014
golden triangle
Business
CSA’s Fallout: SMS/safety rating system disconnect compounds problems
While official safety rating element of FMCSA’s enforcement program remains, the CSA SMS runs alongside it, giving a more real-time window into inspections, violations and crashes. However, the difference between results produced by each is marked.
June 4, 2014
Keep tuned to OverdriveOnline.com for more from Part One of this yearlong series on real-world fallout from the CSA carrier safety ranking program. Access all of our past special coverage of CSA via this page.
Channel 19
Think you’ve got inspection frustration?
It could be worse: While Overdrive’s CSA survey shows continuing concern for deteriorating law-enforcement/driver relations, be thankful you’re in America and not Argentina, as a recent case illustrates…
May 26, 2014
Stopped at scale
Voices
POLL: Should carrier CSA scores be withheld from public view?
Given CSA problems shown by various reports this year and last, should BASIC scores be withheld from public view? If so, should inspection/violation data remain accessible? Tell us what you think here.
April 23, 2014
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
Losing the golden triangle: More proof shippers (mis)use CSA
A small fleet owner on CSA: “We lost our triangle, and it is incredible how much difference it has made. Many of our old customers … called as soon as we lost the triangle.”
July 29, 2013
“We lost our triangle, and it is incredible how much difference it has made. Many of our old customers told me they checked every month to see of they could use us again, and called as soon as we lost the triangle.” –small fleet owner J. Webb Kline on shedding his fleet’s Hours BASIC score under CSA
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