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Thursday, November 7, 2024

FMCSA Delivers Corrective Action Plan Addressing CSA Program

 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says it has filed a report with Congress detailing its plan to institute changes to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability carrier safety rating program. The agency plans to begin testing a new scoring system for CSA’s Safety Measurement System next month.

FMCSA was required by the 2015 FAST Act highway bill to remove CSA’s SMS percentile rankings from public view. The agency then had the National Academies of Science study the program and make recommendations as to how to make it more accurate and fair in its assessment of motor carriers’ risk of future crashes. The FAST Act also required FMCSA to formulate a corrective action plan based on NAS’ recommendations and to file that plan with Congress, which is what it did yesterday.

The agency also announced it will be holding a public meeting about the report on Aug. 29 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern time in Arlington, Virginia. Those interested in participating can attend in person or via an online webinar. The meeting will be held at FMCSA’s National Training Center: 1310 N. Courthouse Road, Suit 600, Arlington, VA 22201. Interested participants can register to attend either in person or via the webinar at fmcsa.dot.gov/fastact/csa.

The primary reforms outlined in the report include replacing the existing CSA Safety Measurement System with a new scoring system, improving the quality of data used to score carriers, and making it easier for carriers to understand and calculate their safety scores.