TRUCKING INDUSTRY’S TOP TEN ATRI’s 2012 industry survey results
BY REBECCAM. BREWSTER Guest Writer
Almost two years after nationwide
deployment of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA), it now ranks as the number one issue of concern for trucking industry stakeholders. The annual ranking of top industry issues is done each year by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) on behalf of the American Trucking Associations and the 50 State Trucking Associations. ATRI’s survey of over 4,000 industry stakeholders not only asks respondents to rank the priority of critical
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industry issues but also to identify and prioritize strategies to deal with each issue. CSA was ranked first, second or third
by a larger share of respondents than any other issue (37.7 percent) in the annual survey. Despite the fact that CSA was first implemented nationally by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in late 2010, uncertainty and dissatisfaction with the impacts of CSA remains a significant challenge for many in the trucking industry. While FMCSA has worked with the industry to address some of the issues surrounding CSA and its measurement of carrier and driver safety performance, challenges still remain.
In particular, the lack of a process for determining crash accountability within CSA and the uncertain relationship between CSA scores in each of the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) and future truck crash risk are two areas where the trucking industry believes more work must be done by FMCSA. This increasing displeasure with CSA may be one reason for its number one ranking in 2012. The federal regulations that govern
commercial driver Hours-of-Service (HOS) have been a top five issue in the annual survey since it began in 2005. This year the HOS rules maintained their No. 2 ranking from 2011, likely driven by FMCSA’s
Arizona Trucking Association 2012 Post-Conference Report
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