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May 18, 2006

Changes - USA - FMCSA proposes four-new-module SafeStat

WASHINGTON,DC,USA -Today's Trucking(Canada) -18 May 2006: -- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing four major changes to the SafeStat methodology to improve the current algorithm... The first proposed improvement is a new Traffic Violations Indicator (TVI), which would apply a different measure of exposure than the Moving Violations Indicator (MVI) with the Traffic Violations Indicator (TVI) in the Driver Safety Evaluation Area... The second proposed improvement, the TVI identifies more carriers with higher crash risk, improves geographical coverage: simplifies and improves consistency of the SafeStat algorithm, and covers more carriers while using better data... The last two proposals include simplifying the calculation of the Accident SEA Value by establishing one standard of measuring crash rate, thereby avoiding potentially conflicting results of multiple standards; and applying more vehicle out-of-service (OOS) violation data for the Vehicle Inspection Indicator (VII)...

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