The reforms required by Congress to the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability carrier ranking system will take about two years to complete, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told a Senate ...

Ten trade associations representing companies that own and operate commercial trucks and buses have jointly asked the Dept. of Transportation (DOT) to remove from public view carriers’ Compliance, ...

Owner-operators and fleets still have two months to comment on proposed changes to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s CSA carrier Safety Measurement System, which ranks carriers with a ...

This story appears in the June 13 print edition of Transport Topics. WASHINGTON — It will be about two years before Compliance, Safety, Accountability scores will be available again for public view, ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced last week it will begin using carrier percentile rankings in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s Safety Measurement System to ...

This story appears in the July 6 print edition of Transport Topics. The federal government’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program needs to be better aligned with the safety risks that cause ...

FMCSA’s Joe Delorenzo April 29 immediately threw cold water on expectations that the agency might utilize its long-awaited Crash Weighting study as a jumping-off point for its subcommittee meetings ...

Thanks to a combination of government regulations and market pressures, operating trucks safely has never been more mutually beneficial to fleets and drivers. On one hand, motor carriers are ...

Several weeks after 10 trade associations asked the Dept. of Transportation to withhold metrics related to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program from public view, another group of 10 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TransCore announced that within days after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) releases the publically available Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA ...

CSA (which originally stood for Comprehensive Safety Analysis) was supposed to give FMCSA a better way to identify carriers that warranted a compliance review. That’s because there are vastly more ...

The CSA/SMS methodology and measurement system is fatally flawed. Only a small fraction of carriers are measured, and of those that are, an astonishing 56 percent are deemed to warrant further ...