U.S. trucking companies and 3PLs are urging Senate lawmakers to ignore a proposal by their colleagues in the House chamber to make crash safety scores public.
The ATA, OOIDA, and the Transportation Intermediaries Association warned the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee that the proposal would be “a step backwards for safety” by rolling back changes made during the Obama administration under the FAST act.
“The FAST Act directed a full diagnostics and reboot of the CSA [Compliance, Safety, Accountability] system, yet, this provision would disregard that legislative directive, as well as the ongoing work at [U.S. Department of Transportation] to improve CSA, instead returning CSA to a system of inaccurate scores,” the groups wrote in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby and ranking member Patrick Leahy on August 20.
The groups point out that both the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the National Academy of Sciences found that the CSA system used unreliable data in creating truck safety scores.
