Transport Topics

The ABCs of the CSA’s Unsafe Driving BASIC

Unsafe driving behaviors by commercial motor vehicle drivers were cited over 250,000 times last year by law enforcement under the FMCSA’s CSA program. 1 And those were the behaviors that were caught, ...
CCJ

CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 1: CSA’s flawed scoring doesn’t stop third parties from judging carriers

Three and a half years after Compliance Safety Accountability began its radical scrambling of how trucking safety is regulated and scored, carriers and owner-operators continue to suffer from its ...
Truckinginfo

Vigillo Adds BASIC Measure Analyzer to Carrier Select

With the new way CSA data is being presented online by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Transportation data mining and analysis provider Vigillo has added a new BASIC Measure Analyzer ...
Fleet Owner

FMCSA modifies CSA BASICs, enables fleets to see impact of changes

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) yesterday announced “planned improvements” to the Carrier Safety Measurement System (SMS), which was first implemented in December 2010 as part ...
Transport Topics

Opinion: CSA Data Too Flawed to Be Made Public

This Opinion piece appears in the Aug. 26 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration enforcement mechanism dubbed Compliance, ...