JOC Staff | Feb 08, 2013 2:05PM EST
The American Trucking Associations has repeated its call for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to establish a process to remove crashes from motor carriers’ records when it was evident that the carrier was not to blame.
Currently, carriers’ scores in FMCSA’s safety monitoring system — Compliance, Safety, Accountability — are based on all carrier-involved crashes, including those that the companies’ drivers did not cause and could not have reasonably prevented.
“Including these types of crashes in the calculation of carriers’ CSA scores paints an inappropriate picture for shippers and others that these companies are somehow unsafe,” said Bill Graves, ATA president and CEO, in a written statement.
FMCSA shelved plans to make these sorts of determinations more than a year ago in favor of further study.
