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Logbook Check online for lady finalists As this issue was going to press, readers were finishing their online voting and the editorial panel was selecting the three truckers who'll be named as Overdrive's Most Beautiful finalists. Each of the three finalists will win a trip to Dallas for The Great American Trucking Show, Aug. 22-24, where judges will pick the winner. After 71 women – all full-time drivers – entered the contest, readers voted in April to pick 10 semifinalists. Their stories and photos were published in May, and voting resumed for the top three in June. To Overdrive's MOST BEAUTIFUL Trucking never looked so good learn more about the finalists, visit OverdriveOnline.com/beautiful. The finalists will be photographed with Overdrive's Pride & Polish trucks and featured online and in print in Overdrive. The winner will be featured on the cover of Overdrive. The 10 semi-finalists were Ingrid Brown, Karen Moore, Annette Dellinger, Jackie Wormley, Amy Gladen, Lisa McAlpine, Maggie Stone, Libby Clayton, Tina Comer and Jessica Samko. – Staff Reports Agency working on CSA crash risk scoring Three panelists at the Great West Fleet Executive Conference in Las Vegas in May delved into some of the main problems with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. Most issues boiled down to one premise: Certain CSA scores do not correlate well with a carrier's or driver's risk of crashing. FMCSA Senior Transportation Specialist Bryan Price said the agency is working to fix the problem. Scott Mugno, vice president of safety for FedEx, said only three of the seven BASICs (Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories) reflect any correlation with a carrier's crash risk. Because of that, Mugno said, Safety AN ANTI-TOLLING bill passed by the North Carolina House of Representatives May 21 stipulates if the U.S. Department of Transportation Measurement System scores should not be made public. Customers, shippers and the public at large can judge a carrier or driver based on those scores, even though they do not reflect a carrier's safety risk accurately. Price said to that end, the agency has in the works a redesigned version of its SMS website – where public scores are accessed – to try to portray scoring as it relates to safety more accurately and highlight BASIC scores that correlate with crash risk. Price also said the agency is looking at the possibility of changing its numeric scoring system to a high-medium-low system of scoring. The specificity in scoring, he said, draws attention away from the bigger picture of CSA's goals. Price acknowledged that there permits tolling on an existing interstate, then the state must maintain the same number of general nontoll lanes on the affected segment that previously were available. are "implications behind" the public nature of SMS scores and that he hopes the new site will "convey as accurately as [FMCSA] possibly can exactly what these scores mean and don't mean," he said. "We need to show they're not a safety rating, but that they simply establish a radar screen for us to see who is having compliance issues." Price said the redesigned website also will help mitigate industry concerns about lack of data for small carriers, which to this point has been perceived by many to mean bad scores. The site should be ready by late summer and available for public comment and feedback before implementation, he said. – James Jaillet PETERBILT AND KENWORTH RECALLED 1,340 trucks in June for a defective ignition switch that allows the trucks to start when the key is partially in the ignition but not turned. 16 | Overdrive | July 2013 Logbook_0713.indd 16 6/28/13 10:10 AM