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Since the 1970s, Federal and State enforcement agencies in partnership with many other stakeholders have progressively reduced the rate of commercial vehicle crashes resulting in injuries or fatalities on our Nation’s highways.
The rate of crash reduction has slowed, prompting FMCSA to take a fresh look at how the agency evaluates the safety of motor carriers and drivers and to explore ways to improve its safety monitoring, evaluation, and intervention processes. CSA 2010 is the result of this comprehensive examination.
Limitations of the current Operational Model
FMCSA’s compliance and safety programs improve and promote safety performance and save lives. However, agency resources available for these efforts have remained relatively constant over time, despite increases in the regulated population and additional programmatic responsibilities. FMCSA has identified limitations in both how safety is measured and how unsafe behaviors, once identified, are corrected.
- FMCSA’s current compliance review (CR) program is resource-intensive and reaches only a small percentage of motor carriers, making it increasingly difficult to continue to improve motor carrier safety using existing tools.
- On-site CRs to determine a motor carrier’s safety fitness require an average of three to four days to complete. At present staffing levels, FMCSA can perform CRs on only a small number of the 700,000 active interstate motor carriers.
- SafeStat is FMCSA’s current system for measuring safety performance. Despite its effectiveness SafeStat groups safety problems together to identify carriers for a one-size-fits-all CR. It also does not focus on the behaviors known to cause crashes.
- The FMCSA Large Truck Crash Causation Study indicates that increased attention should be given to drivers of commercial vehicles.
CSA 2010 builds on FMCSA’s current processes for assessing and improving the safety performance of motor carriers and drivers through a new safety measurement system and a new suite of tools. These include an enhanced CR, in addition to more focused and efficient interventions tailored to address specific problems.
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Under CSA 2010, SMS will replace the Safety Status (SafeStat) measurement system as FMCSA’s assessment tool to identify high-risk motor carriers requiring interventions to improve safety on our nation’s roads. SMS will evaluate the safety of individual motor carriers by considering all safety-based roadside inspection violations, not just out-of service violations as today, as well as State-reported crashes, using 24 months of performance data. SMS will assess each carrier’s safety performance in each of the seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs). The SMS calculates a measure for each BASIC by combining the time and severity weighted violations/crashes (more recent violations are weighted more heavily) normalized by exposure (e.g., number of power units (PUs) OR number of relevant inspections). Applying a similar approach to that used in SafeStat, the SMS converts each carrier’s BASIC measures into percentiles based on rank relative to peers. SMS will be updated monthly.
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This BASIC (Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Category) in the
Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) program has led to a considerable
amount of confusion. It has nothing to do with “new” medical requirements, a
driver’s body mass indicator (BMI, a measure of how physically fit a person is),
and it definitely has nothing to do with drivers exercising more.
What is being tracked, measured, and evaluated is carrier and driver compliance with
the “driver qualifications” regulations (driver training, licensing, and the
“driver qualifications” discussed in Part 391).
What goes into the Driver Fitness BASIC?
The Driver Fitness BASIC uses violations related to driver training, licensing, and
qualifications noted on roadside inspection reports to calculate driver and carrier
performance. This has nothing to do with the driver receiving a “citation” or
“ticket.” Citations are a totally different matter and involve someone paying a
fine for the violation. To sum this up, if a violation of a driver qualifications
regulation is noted on a roadside inspection report, the violation will be entered
into the driver’s and carrier’s Driver Fitness BASIC in the CSA 2010 data
system. Click to view more.
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Did You Know? A total of 3,067 stakeholders participated in the December 3rd and 10th Listening Sessions, submitting more than 1,150 questions! The CSA 2010 team has analyzed the questions and is compiling answers to those that were asked most frequently. The question below represents one of those most frequently asked. Also, check out the new Driver Fact Sheet designed to inform CMV drivers about what CSA 2010 means to them. Stay tuned for more questions and answers over the coming weeks!
Will CSA 2010 assign safety ratings to individual commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers? I heard that CSA 2010 is designed to rate CMV drivers and to put many of them out of work this summer.
No. Under CSA 2010, individual CMV drivers will not be assigned safety ratings or safety fitness determinations. Consistent with the current safety rating regulations (49 CFR part 385), individual drivers will continue to be rated, as they are today, following an onsite investigation at their place of business when they operate independently as a “motor carrier” (i.e. have their own USDOT number, operating authority, and insurance). CSA 2010 will provide enhanced tools for Safety Investigators to identify and address drivers with poor safety records as part of motor carrier investigations in order to increase driver accountability for safe driving behavior. CSA 2010 is designed to meet one overriding objective: to increase safety on the Nation’s roads. Therefore, it is, by design, a positive program for drivers and carriers with strong safety performance records Also, it will send a strong message that drivers and carriers with poor safety performance histories need to improve.
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What is CSA 2010?
1. Major FMCSA safety initiative
2. Expanding from “what” to include “why”
3. High priority- budget/strategic planning
Bottom Line: To achieve greater reduction in large truck and bus crashes
Why CSA 2010?
Current Operational Model Limitations
1. Limited Investigative toolbox
2. Labor intensive
3. Safety fitness ratings of today are tied to the on-site compliance reveiw with very little roadside performance consideration
4. Focus is on carriers only
Result: FMCSA assesses only a small fraction of industry
CSA 2010 New operational model
1. Progressive Interventions
2. Safety Fitness determination process- pending notice of proposed rulemaking
3. Safety Measurement
4. Information Technology
CSA 2010 Facts to know: For both carriers and drivers
1. Under the new rules, over 47.9% of carriers would fail their audits
2. Over 1 million warning letters will be sent out the first year
3. All drivers and carriers will receive a safety rating
4. DOT audits include 16 automatic failure violations for new carriers
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CSA 2010 Driver Safety Enforcement impacts both drivers and carriers. The new CSA 2010 approach will directly monitor the safety and performance of individual drivers, address problem drivers based on their records across multiple employers.
CSA 2010 Facts to know: For both carriers and drivers
1. Under the new rules, over 47.9% of carriers would fail their audits
2. Over 1 million warning letters will be sent out the first year
3. All drivers and carriers will receive a safety rating
4. DOT audits include 16 automatic failure violations for new carriers
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On February 3, 2010, Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan introduced S. 3002, a bill entitled, The Dietary Supplement Safety Act. The supposed purpose of the bill is to make dietary supplements “safer.” This is ironic because dietary supplements are already hundreds of times safer than either prescription or over-the-counter drugs.
The real purpose of this bill is to limit your access to dietary suppl ements. The government would tell you, the consumer, what dietary supplements you could and could not buy. There is little doubt that if this bill becomes law your choices will be drastically reduced, and many of the supplements you take today will become illegal. This misguided bill affects ALL dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, sports and diet products.
But, who is behind this bill? The answer is simple: big time sports leagues, especially Major League Baseball, which in recent years have been plagued by steroid scandals. Fearful that Congress will end their lucrative anti-trust exemption and require real drug testing, they have decided to make the supplement industry their scapegoat. When one of their players tests positive for steroids, they’d like people to think it must have been an adulterated dietary supplement.
Unless you want the government to tell you what supplements you can and cannot take, and unless you want to see your freedom of choice drastically reduced, you need to make your views known to your United States Senators.Tell them to oppose this terrible piece of legislation.
To make your views known, you can go to the Save Our Supplements website (SaveOurSupplements.org) to send a note in opposition to S. 3002 directly to your two Senators or you can use the website to get information to construct your own personal letter. Either way, you need to act immediately. Do not let Congress take away your right to buy and use dietary supplements.
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