( from an article in the TIA Logistics Weekly that shows what is changing due to CSA 2010- everyone working with the trucking industry needs to be clued in)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced recent updates to the Safety Measurement System.
The Data Preview assessments will be based on an improved SMS methodology. As a result of input from enforcement personnel, industry representatives, and safety experts, as well as findings from an extensive, 30-month field test, FMCSA is implementing several updates to the SMS that will make it more effective in identifying high risk and other carriers with safety compliance problems. Specifically:
The measure of exposure will be changed from Power Units (PUs) only to a combination of PUs and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) in the Unsafe Driving as part of Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASIC) and Crash Indicator. In addition, these two BASICs will change from using PUs as a safety event grouping (formerly referred to as peer grouping) to using the number of crashes for the Crash Indicator and the number of inspections with a violation for the Unsafe Driving BASIC.
The measure of exposure will change from PUs to the number of relevant inspections in the Controlled Substances/Alcohol BASIC; Severity weights for some roadside inspection violations will be updated; and FMCSA will employ a more strategic approach to addressing motor carriers with a history of size and weight violations rather than counting these violations in the Cargo-Related BASIC; the new approach will include alerts to roadside inspectors when carriers have a history of size and weight violations.
These enhancements will allow the Agency to more effectively identify motor carriers with safety performance and compliance problems.
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