INSPECTIONS * USA - CSA 2010 and Preventive Maintenance
Annual vehicle inspections and regular PM services will need to be performed on time and with good historical documentation
Arlington,VA,USA -Transport Topics, by Charles Arsenault -March 22, 2010: -- If your fleet has been operating without a well-organized, carefully documented preventive maintenance program, you’ll need one soon: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Comprehensive Safety Analysis initiative — CSA 2010 — will see to it... To meet the requirements of CSA 2010, which goes into effect in July, annual vehicle inspections and regular PM services will need to be performed on time and with good historical documentation — including driver-reported complaints and whether they have been addressed in a proper and timely manner... The new regulations will snare less-than-compliant fleets and remove their equipment from the highways. Not only will lack of good maintenance management increase fleets’ Safety Measurement System ratings — higher numbers are bad — and increase operating costs, it also will red-flag their fleets, making them a target for more time-consuming roadside inspections as well as more frequent and more thorough on-site inspections, which now will be called “interventions”...
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