Tag: safety fitness

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SFD rule’s crash-risk disconnect: Data show most analyzed ‘Unfit’ carriers don’t crash
ASECTT’s Freedom of Information Act-obtained numbers show that 76 percent of carriers with five or fewer trucks, and who would have been flagged Unfit to operate under the proposed SFD’s parameters, recorded no crashes in the 12 months following the analyzed ‘Unfit’ determination. The numbers — and the questions they present about the proposed rule’s methodology — add to mounting pressure the agency’s faced since publishing the proposed rule in January.
June 3, 2016
This chart shows the percentage of carriers who recorded a crash in the 12 months following an Unfit determination based on roadside inspection data alone. For smaller carriers, the “no crash” rate was even higher — upwards of 70 percent.
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Safety Fitness rule not a violation of FAST Act, FMCSA says in media briefing touting rule’s benefits
Joe DeLorenzo, head of enforcement and compliance for FMCSA, spoke briefly in a conference call with trucking industry media Thursday, April 7, touting both the rule’s ability to expand the agency’s ability to target unsafe carriers and addressing concerns about the rule’s relationship to the December-enacted FAST Act highway bill.
April 7, 2016
The Safety Fitness rule would change the way FMCSA determines carriers’ fitness to operate, leaning more heavily on roadside inspection data.
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Trucking pressure to stop FMCSA from working on new carrier rating system gains traction in House
“It is irresponsible and inconceivable that FMCSA would use the same data and analysis Congress said is faulty in a new safety fitness determination,” the lawmakers write in their letter. The letter comes in response to requests by industry groups to halt FMCSA’s Safety Fitness rule pending a CSA revamp.
March 21, 2016
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Hours exemptions ‘running rampant,’ says TCA’s Heller, FMCSA still working on 34-hour restart study
Heller also touched on the latest happenings with a speed limiter mandate, entry-level driver training rule, another carrier scoring system and more on hours of service changes.
September 30, 2015
FMCSA’s findings on whether 2013’s 34-hour restart regulations help or hurt highway safety could be released as early as December, Heller said.
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House bill seeks to remove assumption that CSA scores should be used in carrier hiring
The bill aims to remove the public assumption that carrier rankings in the DOT’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program should be used as a tool to hire carriers.
February 27, 2015
Scores in the seven BASICs in CSA would be removed from public view pending completion of a Safety Fitness Determination.
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What owner-operators can expect from FMCSA’s Safety Fitness rule
The key difference between the Safety Fitness portion of CSA and the already existing SMS, says FMCSA, will be relativity — or lack thereof. The SFD will score carriers on their individual performance, rather than the percentile rankings produced by the SMS, which compare carriers to their peers.
February 17, 2015
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