Carriers have two years to contest penalties for offenses that accumulate CSA points and affect their CSA score. Truckers can either contest the full allegation or only the severity of it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Big changes are coming to the U.S. Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) safety regime. CSA was introduced in 2010 to evaluate a carrier’s likelihood of being involved in a ...

Several middle-severity weightings have been assigned to some ELD violations for CSA SMS rating purposes, though most come with very low weights. New variations of the 395.8(a) violation now ...

Only then should CSA scores be released to the public. It is my hope FMCSA accepts the recommendations of NAS and seriously begins to work on the next phase of CSA.

FMCSA uses information collected primarily during roadside inspections to identify motor carriers that are operating unsafely and therefore theoretically at higher risk for future crashes.

Point No. 2: In the study, FMCSA now applies new weightings to certain crashes (single vehicle) and comes to the conclusion that the statistical model does not improve significantly.

Shop talk—the best kind, anyway—has always revolved as much around safe operations as vehicle uptime and cost control. But since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rolled ...

FMCSA objected to the suggestion of specific changes to its SMS methodology, so GAO, in the final report, revises its recommendation and calls for the formal analysis “to inform potential ...

Case in point: Mark Blackford, national fleet manager for light maker Grote noted in a recent white paper that “lighting infractions” are not only causing CSA violations directly, they offer ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has called out the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) safety monitoring and measurement system, Compliance Safety ...