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TRUCKING COMMENTS * USA - Those discrediting carrier need to take close look at SafeStat
Lincoln,NE,USA -The Trucker, by LYNDON FINNEY -7 Dec 2009: -- One of the things that irks me the most is when some unknowing person makes a blanket statement to discredit the trucking industry or even an individual carrier... In the last issue, we reported on the settlement of the wrongful death suit in Florida that followed the accident that killed seven children in January 2006... Wilkerson supposedly had been awake 34 hours just prior to the accident and claimed that his supervisors at Crete Carrier Corp., for whom he worked, had pressured him to drive extra routes and hours... He made the statement in anticipation of further legal proceedings against Crete, at which Wilkerson has agreed to testify... All of which sent us to the SafeStat section of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Web site... What we found was that Crete has an exemplary — let us repeat, exemplary — driver safety record, in fact the best among the 15 largest for-hire truckload carriers based on 2008 revenue... Crete ranks seventh on that 15 largest list... We added to the Jacksonville paper’s story that Crete has a Driver Safety Evaluation Area score of 22.52 on SafeStat, but perhaps didn’t give enough space to explaining the significance of that score... SafeStat uses available federal motor carrier safety data to measure the relative safety status of motor carriers in four Safety Evaluation Areas (SEAs) — accident, driver, vehicle and safety management. SEA values range between (0-best to 100-worst) and are calculated for carriers with sufficient safety data related to each SEA... By the way, Crete’s preventable DOT accidents per million miles driven are approximately .24, which again falls below the national average... All of these stats point to the ridiculousness of the statements attributed to Avery... Perhaps next time he won’t be so quick to try and discredit a carrier... And we’ll promise to dedicate more space to spelling out just what the numbers mean... In Crete’s case, it means the best driver safety rating among the top TL carriers in an industry that is replete with carriers who have outstanding safety records... (Photo: The crux of the suit was that Crete knew about its drivers’ hours for months or even years before the crash, and since the suits were filed the carrier had instituted software procedures to better track driver hours, according to attorney Mark Avery)Labels: trucking industry comments
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