Improvement Categories (BASICs) under which carriers and drivers are scored, are not a good predictor of carrier crash risk. Additionally, there are disparities in how states collect and report safety performance data, and shippers are potentially misusing the data in the selection of carriers to haul freight. T is is another issue that was subsequently
addressed in the fi ve-year FAST Act. In it, Congress directed FMCSA to remove from public view motor carrier BASIC scores until the underlying issues with the Safety Measurement System (SMS) are corrected and additional research done to identify if the BASICs are accurate predictors of crash risk. T e top strategy identifi ed in this year’s
survey for addressing CSA is to push for a crash accountability determination process that removes non-preventable crashes from carrier scores. In November of last year, ATRI published a new study which investigated the impact that excluding non-preventable crashes would have on motor carrier CSA
Crash Indicator BASIC measures. Among the fi ſt een carriers in ATRI’s analysis, the Crash Indicator BASIC decreased nearly 15 percent once a subset of fi ve non-preventable crash types were removed. T e number nine issue for Tennessee
carriers – the state of the nation’s economy. Other than the commercial driver HOS rules, the economy is the only issue to rank fi rst on the national list for three consecutive years (2009-2011), which it did during the Great Recession. T e fi nal issue on the list of top ten
concerns for Tennessee motor carriers is Driver Health and Wellness. In the overall survey, Driver Health and Wellness continues to climb in ranking, this year reaching seventh, its highest position to date. Many in the industry recognize the critical connection between improved driver health and wellness and the industry’s ability to retain qualifi ed drivers. As such, more and more fl eets are deploying health and wellness programs for their drivers.
T e annual Top Industry Issues Survey
provides an important indicator of where trucking’s attention is focused and which issues may rise to prominence in the near future. It’s an important tool for providing direction to industry groups at the state and national levels in terms of the issues and strategies that motor carriers and drivers believe will have the most impact on the industry for years to come. Armed with this information, state trucking associations and the American Trucking Associations are better equipped to address the issues more broadly and proactively. TTN
Rebecca M. Brewster is president and COO of
the American Transportation Research Institute. ATRI is the trucking industry’s 501(c)(3) not-for- profi t research organization. It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation’s essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and effi cient transportation system. A copy of the 2015 Critical Issues in the Trucking Industry report is available from ATRI at
www.ATRI-online.org. You may email Brewster directly at
RBrewster@Trucking.org.
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