* DC - FMCSA: SMS data sufficient to target at-risk carriers
-- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a Congressionally-directed report that the agency says confirms that the amount of data used in the agency’s Safety Measurement System (SMS) is clearly sufficient to allow FMCSA to identify high-risk truck and bus companies... The report found that SMS effectively identifies the truck and bus companies involved in 90 percent of the more than 100,000 crashes that occur each year, and those that are identified as high-risk carriers continue to have crash rates that are twice the national average... Under current Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs), a carrier’s safety fitness can only be assigned following an on-site investigation; SMS is a tool to prioritize high-risk truck and bus companies for enforcement interventions... The agency said the report underscores the critical importance of considering carriers of all sizes in the agency’s continuing efforts to remove unsafe carriers and commercial drivers from the nation’s roadways and protecting travelers everywhere...
(Photo from Overdriveonline: Truck crash) -- Washington, DC, USA - The Trucker News Services - 12 Oct 2015Labels: roads safety, safety trucks
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