* DC - A serious shortcoming in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability system by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
-- In 2010, the National Tank Truck Carriers, American Trucking Associations and other trucking groups identified a serious shortcoming in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability system administered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — the inclusion of all crashes, regardless of responsibility... Not only does the information fail to help prevent future crashes, it paints a misleading picture of the trucking industry as lax on safety and a danger on the roads, when the reality is far different... In the CSA system, the crash-indicator score does not recognize fault, so crashes in which a carrier was at fault are counted the same as those in which the carrier was not... In February 2012, FMCSA pledged to begin resolving the issue by including crash-accountability data in the system and implementing an appeals process. Disappointingly, the process came to a standstill one month later. The industry still is waiting on resolution of this matter, despite having put forward any number of reasonable proposals to help address the problem... Recently, FMCSA published results from its Crash Weighting Analysis and determined that implementing measures to account for crash accountability would be time consuming and expensive, and would not improve the agency’s ability to identify those carriers most at risk for future accidents... This makes no sense... It’s time to end this dangerous double standard and focus on meaningful safety measures and programs that support our mission and benefit everyone using our roads...
(Photo) -- Washington, DC, USA - Transport Topics: Opinion by Dean Kaplan (Chairman National Tank Truck Carriers) - April 20, 2015Labels: rules and regulations
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