CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JANUARY
JANUARY 26-28 2014 AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS EXECUTIVE MEETING Capital Hilton Washington, D.C.
JANUARY 27-31 CVSA COHMED CONFERENCE Sarasota, Florida
FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY 13 ATA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
MARCH
MARCH 10-13 2014 TMC ANNUAL MEETING & TRANSPORTATION EXHIBITION Nashville City Music Center Nashville, Tennessee
MARCH 23-26 TRUCKLOAD CARRIERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION Gaylord Texan Resort Grapevine, Texas
APRIL
APRIL 1-4 (TENTATIVE) AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS WINTER STEERING MEETING &NATIONAL SAFETY CONFERENCE &EXHIBITION Arlington, Texas
APRIL 3 ATA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
MAY
MAY 21-23 ATA ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE AND VENDOR SHOWCASE Hilton Branson Convention Center Branson, Missouri
JULY
JULY 10-12 ATA TRUCKING CHAMPIONSHIP John Q. Hammons Convention Center Rogers, Arkansas
NEWS IN BRIEF, Continued from page 16
“If it hadn’t been for those truck
drivers, Andi wouldn’t be here. He was blue and he wasn’t breathing,” Kaycee said. “They knew what to do and they saved my son.”
FMCSA STUDY SAYS PSP PROGRAM LOWERING CRASH AND DRIVER OOS NUMBERS A recent Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (FMCSA) report shows that motor carriers using the agency’s Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) are seeing a greater decline in crash rates than those who are not using it. “The overall adjusted improvement
in the crash rates for the PSP group, across all size classes, was statistically significant,” said the report. It also found those using PSP expe-
rienced a drop in driver out-of-service violations. Overall it found crash rates
declined 8 percent for carriers while
driver out-of-service violations fell 17.2 percent for fleets using PSP, as opposed to those who haven’t. Declines in crash rates were even
bigger for carriers who have between six and 20 drivers, falling 20.6 percent, and those with between 21-100 drivers, declining 21.1 percent. FMCSA also found the number of
PSP users has steadily increased month- ly since PSP began distributing informa- tion in May 2010. “Currently, there are about 35,000
PSP users making about 70,000 requests per month,” the study stated. These requests come from both drivers and motor carriers, but almost all of these users are motor carrier companies with only a small fraction of requests coming from drivers.” FMCSA established the Pre-
Employment Screening Program to comply with a law requiring the agency to provide information on driver safety performance to persons conducting pre- employment screening for the motor carrier industry. The system has around 3.5 million driver records, which varies
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