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Overdrive
| April 2015
Pressure to reform the
Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration's
Compliance, Safety,
Accountability program is
spreading in Washington,
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dissatisfaction among gov-
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cies, enforcement groups,
brokers and others.
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propose major changes,
and a senator says she
plans to introduce a FMC-
SA reform bill.
The Safer Trucks and
Buses Act of 2015 intro-
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force FMCSA to remove
its carrier rankings from
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ture the program.
The public nature of
CSA's carrier ranking
system has been one of the
industry's biggest concerns
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be as pronounced if third
parties did not have the
chance to use the scores
to make determinations
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them or establish insur-
ance rates for them.
Barletta's bill targets
CSA's approach to scores
and the data stream used
to calculate them. It
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CSA by:
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data determined to be
predictive of motor carrier
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on accuracy. The bill calls
for controls on varia-
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self-reported data and
appropriate accounting for
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ment" and crash fault;
• Avoiding the current
harm to small motor car-
riers as a result of limited
safety data availability; and
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companies.
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Congress considers CSA overhauls
T.F. Scott Darling, acting adminis-
trator of the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, took over
following former Administrator
Anne Ferro's departure.
A federal appeals court last month
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Independent Drivers Association in
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Carrier Safety Administration.
The court denied FMCSA's bid to
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and its Compliance, Safety, Account-
ability program's DataQ's appeals
process.
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District of Columbia made the ruling
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tion against the agency and its parent
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