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Business
CSA’s Fallout: ‘Ugly little secret’ — severity weights, peer groups need work
The draft report issued April 30 from the CSA Subcommittee of FMCSA’s MCSAC advisors included a large section on potential methods of improving the scoring system.
June 6, 2014
Keep tuned to OverdriveOnline.com through the summer for more 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
CSA: The difference (or lack thereof) a year makes
Report from the CSA Subcommittee to the MCSAC shows a somewhat different overall tune from the year prior as FMCSA retrenches in its commitment to the CSA program.
May 1, 2014
Clean inspection
Overdrive Radio
CSA’s golden triangle more like a ‘scarlet letter’
Audio from Panther’s Irwin Shires and Transplace’s Tom Sanderson at the CSA Subcommittee meeting shows difficulties of carriers dealing with the mark of the CSA program.
April 30, 2014
golden triangle
Business
CSA crash-weighting study to be released in June, FMCSA says
Full implementation of the Safety Fitness Determination rule, which would replace the current safety-rating system, could follow two years after a hoped-for September proposal. More news from MCSAC’s CSA Subcommittee meeting…
April 29, 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 the stories in our 2013 CSA’s Data Trail series.
Business
Agency committee meeting to form recommendations for CSA changes
FMCSA’s subcommittee for its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program will meet April 29-30 to develop recommendations for changes to the program, its scoring system and the intervention process.
April 14, 2014
CSA
Voices
ELD mandate: Readers respond
Among Overdrive readers, more than half of the respondents to a poll conducted in the weeks prior to the ELD mandate’s release showed a strong preference for another line or work or retirement over use of the devices.
March 17, 2014
What will you do ELD poll
Channel 19
‘Zero highway deaths’ goal needs general public target
Regulators’ ultimate goal pondered, in light of the laundry list of highway-bill recommendations the MCSAC delivered to Congress two weeks back.
February 24, 2014
Deliberation within the MCSAC Feb. 11 included a process of voting via green stickers for various recommendations out of a list of a total 38. This one, a provision for FMCSA to move ahead with a rulemaking on sleep apnea in medical certifications, received 12 total votes, landing it within the top six measures. For the top 12 of the recs, read this story.
Channel 19
GAO CSA report fallout: More small-carrier inspections on the way?
Some watchers feel that “reprioritizing” inspection criteria to grab and tie up more and more of the “little guys” among carriers on the road might be the onerous result of the GAO’s focus on lack of data.
February 13, 2014
Download the GAO’s CSA report via this link.
Business
May 21 is deadline to begin using National Registry doctors
A somewhat new map-search tool at the registry site is now populated with registered examiners around the country for look-up / forward planning purposes.
February 12, 2014
To search currently listed doctors in your area, visit the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners website via this link.
Parking
FLSA reform, parking, detention: MCSAC prioritizes reauthorization recommendations
Reforming employee-driver compensation by removing the FLSA overtime exemption was among top recommendations, likewise expanding truck-parking availability, sleep apnea, further New Entrant attention and more.
February 11, 2014
truck stop parking
Business
Regs review, CSA, driver pay highlight potential highway-bill action items discussed at MCSAC Day 1
What would you tell the FMCSA to focus on in terms of priority issues for the next highway reauthorization? Find here what FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee’s diverse membership thinks.
February 10, 2014
Follow Todd Dills on Twitter (@channel19todd) for updates from MCSAC meetings ongoing through Wed., February 12.
Channel 19
Hopping a beverage trailer to D.C.
Follow @channel19todd on Twitter for updates from this week’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., set to take up highway-bill priorities and CSA, among other topics.
February 10, 2014
Alexandria, Va., where the beverage haulers abound — at least in this little corner of it. Not much else of note in terms of noteworthy truck equipment.
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