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The American Transportation
Research Institute released a
study evaluating how differ-
ences in enforcement affect
carrier safety performance.
"This assessment was ranked
as the number-one research is-
sue for the industry during our
annual RAC meeting in 2013,"
said Steve Niswander, ATRI
Research Advisory Commit-
tee chairman. For Overdrive
readers, the issue ranked No.
5 in a survey about concerns
with the Compliance, Safety,
Accountability program.
The ATRI report stresses
that the "different priorities
and violation issuance rates
across states dramatically
undermine the uniformity
of CSA — a supposedly
standardized safety assessment
program."
Analyzing carrier Behavioral Analy-
sis and Safety Improvement Category
(BASIC) scores in light of different
states' violation rates, study authors
attempt to illustrate the variance in
scores that would result if a carrier had
a different regional operating pattern
or if scores were normalized relative to
states' violation rates.
Study highlights enforcement disparities
10-month fix
approved for
highway funds
The Senate on July 31 passed
a 10-month funding bill that
will prevent the Highway
Trust Fund from going broke
until the end of May.
The bill was passed by the
House earlier, so at press time
it awaited a presidential signa-
ture before becoming law.
Without the added cash,
the U.S. Department of
Transportation has said re-
imbursements to states would
be restricted, putting road
and bridge projects, as well
as hundreds of thousands of
jobs, in jeopardy because the
HTF was projected to run dry
in August.
