REGULATIONS * USA
* ATA criticizes FMCSA’s crash accountability decision
Arlington,VA,USA -Penton Media/Fleet Owner, by Deborah Whistler -Mar. 21, 2012: -- American Trucking Assns.’ leaders expressed “serious concern” over the recent decision by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to continue to hold the trucking industry responsible in its CSA program for every truck-involved crash, including those which the truck driver could not have prevented... ATA says the FMCSA buckled to pressure by anti-truck groups when it determined it would not add crash accountability determination process to the CSA program to make it fair to truckers... ATA and other industry groups had requested FMCSA develop a process where police accident reports would be reviewed to determine crash accountability and remove non-preventable crashes from a carrier’s CSA profile... After pressure from some special interest groups who have questioned the reliability of police accident reports, FMCSA now has shelved these plans, ATA claimed...
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