NEWS IN BRIEF, Continued from page 15
BILL WOULD FORCE FMCSA TO REMOVE CSA SCORES FROM PUBLIC VIEW A bill has been introduced in the
U.S. House to require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to remove from public view the car- rier rankings and scores produced in the agency’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. The public nature of the CSA scores
has been one of the industry’s chief concerns, given that shippers, custom- ers and other third-parties could use the scores against carriers, despite the data and ranking problems that have plagued the program since its 2011 inception.
my girls, and I strongly believe that unsafe vehicles should not be on the road,” Barletta said. “Unfortunately, companies across the country and in Pennsylvania are being unfairly misrep- resented by their safety scores, causing economically devastating impacts to these bus and truck companies, many of which are small businesses.” The American Trucking
Associations, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the National Association of Small
Trucking Companies have voiced sup- port for the bill. The current system of measure-
ment is unreliable and needs substan- tial improvement,” said Dave Osiecki, Executive Vice President and Chief of National Advocacy for the American Trucking Associations. “We appreciate Congressman Barletta’s support for the industry and recognition of the need to have a safety measurement system that is reliable, fair and accurate.”
NWELCOME,
Together, We Are the Power of Association
A bevy of trucking groups in
recent weeks have sent petitions to Department of Transportation head Anthony Foxx asking him to remove the scores from public view, given their poor performance at measuring carriers’ crash risk and, thus, misconceptions by third-party groups who use the rankings to make judgments about carriers. Congressman Lou Barletta’s Safer
Trucks and Buses Act would direct the agency to remove the scores from public view and requires the agency to submit to Congress a plan for improving CSA and a timeline for implementation. After Congress stamps approval of
FMCSA’s changes, CSA rankings could be pushed back into public view. “As a father of four daughters, I worry every day about the safety of
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