Tag: CSA problems

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

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

Business

Report: Car drivers at fault in nearly 80 percent of car-truck crashes

In trying to push FMCSA to act on crash accountability and CSA scoring, ATA says that studies show most accidents involving trucks are not the fault of the driver or carrier.

February 14, 2013

Business

CSA audit begins as data quality comes into question

The DOT Inspector General wants to gauge whether FMCSA has in place adequate measures to make sure that the quality of data being used to evaluate carriers is sufficient.

January 17, 2013

Business

Changes to violation weighting, more posted this weekend

Among changes taking place this week are the introduction of a new hazmat-specific BASIC and adjustments in various violation weights.

December 3, 2012

Channel 19

CSA two-punch: Second lawsuit brought

A suit against the FMCSA’s CSA program brought by the ASECTT group alleged unfairness to small carriers within FMCSA’s compliance and enforcement regime.

July 19, 2012

Business

ATA urges FMCSA to remain committed to CSA goal

In a white paper released this week, ATA urges the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to remain committed CSA’s goal of reducing crashes.

June 21, 2012

Business

Independent thinking

Carriers test the waters with new owner-operator models to dodge worker classification problems.

November 1, 2011