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RULES & REGULATIONS * USA: CSA Scores
* DC - Trucking groups protest CSA Scores
Washington,DC,USA -Go By Truck News -August 27, 2014: -- Ten transportation trade groups have come together to ask the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to remove Compliance, Safety, Accountability scores from its website. The groups claim that the scores are an unreliable basis for comparing carrier safety and cite a study by the Government Accountability Office as proof... The GAO report, issued in February of this year, called into question the amount of data used to produce SMS scores... The transportation groups behind the request to remove the scores from public view point out that the scores have the potential to have an adverse affect on companies’ bottom lines, as well as on highway safety... “[Removing the scores] will not only spare motor carriers harm from public view, but will also reduce the possibility that the marketplace will drive business to potentially risky carriers that are erroneously being painted as more safe,” reads the letter... The letter was signed by representatives from the following trade groups: American Bus Association; American Moving and Storage Association; American Trucking Associations; the National Private Truck Council; the National School Transportation Association; the National Tank Truck Carriers; the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association; Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association; Truckload Carriers Association; and United Motorcoach Association...
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