It’s become increasingly clear that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will make some movement soon on the issue of sleep disorders and the trucking industry. Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea are an important safety issue because they can …
While there may be a number of potential divisions between the government and the trucking industry, few seem as difficult as the reporting of crash history. Those divisions are playing out as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration considers changes …
While there may be a number of potential divisions between federal transportation regulators and the trucking industry, few seem as difficult as the reporting of crash history, writes Rose McMurray, Chief Transportation Advisor to FDRsafety. Read the full article.
In recent weeks, the truck and bus industries have been vocal in criticizing the USDOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) slowness in reacting to, and adjusting, its 17-month-old Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program which uses safety performance data to …
It’s been one year since the Department of Transportation launched its CSA program to better monitor fleet safety and indicators of success have begun to emerge, although not everyone agrees that they are dramatic. DOT reports that, in the first …
Even as the motor carrier industry and its customers get accustomed to the government’s new safety measurement system -—Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) — the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is making certain improvements to the program. The most important revisions …
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I am pleased to announce that Rose McMurray, who retired in January as Chief Safety Officer of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has joined FDRsafety. Rose, who is one of the most distinguished figures in the world of transportation …