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LEADING NEWS, TRUCKING MARKET CONDITIONS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS FMCSA proposes three-crash threshold before scoring I n addition to the two-year program to test the fea- sibility of removing certain nonpreventable crashes from carriers' Compliance Safety Accountability scores, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration also proposed a methodological change to the CSA Crash Indicator BASIC. The change, if finalized, would raise the minimum needed number of crashes to three from the current two before a carrier receives a Crash Indicator BASIC rating. Currently, crashes follow carriers in CSA for a rolling 24-month period. If a carrier is involved in two crashes in the trailing 24-month period, crashes will be included in their Safety Measurement System rankings. Under the agency's pro - posed change, however, car- riers would need to record three crashes in the rolling 24-month period before they would enter into their SMS scores. The agency says an analysis of the proposed change barely shifted the intervention threshold for the Crash Indicator BASIC, rais - ing it to 6.34 crashes per 100 FMCSA seeks comments about CSA crash weighting plan T he Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last month announced plans for a two-year real-world pilot program to test implementing a form of "crash accountability" into its Compliance Safety Accountability pro- gram. The plan would allow carriers to contest crashes counted against them in CSA and potentially remove those found to be nonpreventable. To view FMCSA's Federal Register notice published July 12, go to Regulations.gov and search FMCSA-2014-0177. Comments will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Sept. 12. Following the completion of the 60-day comment period and a subsequent review by FMCSA, the agency will announce a start date of the program and any changes made to the original plan, said Joe DeLorenzo, FMCSA director of enforcement. FMCSA's two-year soak test will allow fleets and owner-operators to use the agency's existing DataQs system to dispute crashes that obviously were not the fault of the car- rier or driver. The agency then will review such disputes and determine whether the crash should be removed from the carrier's Crash Indicator Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category in CSA's Safety Measurement System. If so, the agency will remove the crash and recalculate the carrier's score. Otherwise, the crash and the associated BASIC points will stay on the carrier's record and in its BASIC score. The data gathered during the program — such as the number of crashes removed from Scan the QR code with your smartphone or visit ccjdigital.com/ news/subscribe-to- newsletters to sign up for the CCJ Daily Report, a daily e-mail newslet- ter filled with news, analysis, blogs and market condition articles. Continued on page 18 Continued on page 18 8 commercial carrier journal | august 2016