How the potential gold mine of ELD data could hurt you
The precision and quantity of ELD data available after the mandate could, combined with a new safety-rating scheme, give on-site auditors an extra-effective tool for declaring a carrier Unfit on the...
View ArticleFMCSA and some states sharpen audit teeth with ‘enhanced investigative...
'EIT' in the parlance of acronym-happy bureaucratese, Jeff Davis of Fleet Safety Services likened new investigative approaches of auditors to another EIT, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques -- or...
View ArticleWhen the time bombs started going off: Channel 19 year in review, part 1
Indulge us as we run back through the rules, the regs, the rigs and the past, present and future of driver pay -- all the rage with the "driver shortage" notion analyzed and discussed and thrown under...
View ArticleAlert to DOT: Industry shows unity against safety-rating change in light of...
A recent letter, urging DOT to scrap the Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking as premature, brings in a large variety of state and private industry associations as signatories, including ATA, OOIDA,...
View ArticleASECTT group presses ahead on CSA, safety rating reform and other issues
In addition to its chief concern over reliance on CSA SMS scores in safety assessment, ASECTT now turns attention to reform of the safety-audit system and federal preemption of state wage/hour laws and...
View ArticleUpdate: Safety review continues trend toward the negative, non-ratable
Tom Sanderson of Transplace and the ASECTT group is right in some ways about FMCSA having "doubled down" on its post-CSA policy, particularly with respect to how it conducts safety audits in this day...
View ArticleBetween cynicism and hope: Readers, associations weigh in on ramifications of...
While many readers were cynical about the entire project, associations from OOIDA to ATA were hopeful that the National Academies' CSA revision recommendations would be taken seriously by the FMCSA.
View ArticleNext steps for CSA — scores behind the curtain or not?
Will the FMCSA press forward with CSA SMS changes to bring scores back to public view or allow the SMS to remain a "half-baked solution sitting in the dark"? For the ASECTT group, there could be a...
View ArticleA shot in the arm for fixing CSA
The added weight of an objective party is welcome, especially knowing it gives Congress a clear vision of CSA problems. FMCSA has made relatively superficial changes – slowly – to CSA. It’s a shame...
View ArticleRoundup: A source of supposed DOT ‘bot attack’; The ‘fatbergs’ clogging the...
Source of supposed "bot" attack on regulatory reform comments identified. And transport attorney Henry Seaton's talk at NASTC's annual meeting identifies safety-rating, hours and other issues as...
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