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TRUCKING REGULATIONS * USA: CSA Scores
* DC - US bill would prevent publication of trucking safety scores
Washington,DC,USA -JOC, by Grace M. Lavigne -Sep 22, 2014: -- U.S. House Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pennsylvania, has introduced a bill that would prevent the publication of safety scores for truck and bus carriers and revamp the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s scoring system... The legislation would require the FMCSA to stop publishing safety scores compiled under the current Compliance, Safety and Accountability or CSA system on its website and prevent those scores from being used as evidence in liability cases until the program is revamped. In the meantime, the bill would require the FMCSA to submit to Congress an improvement plan for the CSA program and implement that plan... The CSA carrier safety scores, which have been partially public since December 2010, are meant to help FMCSA identify high-risk carriers by assigning scores in seven safety categories. However, even when it was introduced, trucking interests voiced concerns about how crash data would be incorporated into CSA scores...
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