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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) renews its compliance, security and accountability system to consolidate violations, simplify difficulty weights, update intervention limits- and more. At this point, carriers should still use the SMS site to review security benefits.

Ultimately, this new rule will reduce the effect of a single poor inspection on a motor carrier (MC) and standardize the severity of violations to smooth the rules of the game for all motor carriers.

FMCSA is currently in Phase II and accepts public comments on review. In this phase, motor drivers can log in to the CSA Prioritizing Prepiew Web site with their DOT number to catch a glimpse of what their ratings will look like under the new rule and give comments. Note that these changes are still under review and have not been implemented yet.

Here is a summary of the top CSA changes with the new rule:

1. Reorganized basic

Basic is now “compliance categories” and focuses on motor drivers with higher crashes and potentially uncertain behavior caused by dangerous driving, drug and alcohol violations and lack of truck maintenance. In addition, offenses outside of service will always be considered insecure violations of driving violations, regardless of the original violation.

Maintenance of vehicles includes both VEHICLE SETTERING driver observedor items that can reasonably be observed in a walk-around (level 2) inspection, and Maintenance of vehiclesthat contains all other maintenance violations that are often identified during a routine inspection or full road office (level 1) inspection.

Why it is important: This change helps motorcycle and law enforcement more precisely to find out the uncertain driver behavior and drug and alcohol violations as well as map the source of vehicle maintenance problems.

2. Reorganized violations by the roads

As many as 2,000 infringement codes have been reduced to 100 groups of security behavior. This prevents discrepancies with multiple violations. Quotes can be written for each violation, but because similar violations are now grouped, violation sets can be treated as a violation.

Why it is important: Identification of security questions is more important than how it is documented. Now airlines are held with similar security issues to the same standard. Motor companies can see dot officers and respective violations such as careful or ‘nitpicky’. When counting a set of violations as a violation of the group, drivers and carriers can focus on underlying questions rather than the frustration of several violations affecting their priority results.

3. Simplified severity weights

All Completion categories – including crashes and their consequences – are assigned a severity of 1 or 2 based on quoted violations:

Weight of 2 for:

• OOS -Crackings (except uncertain driving)
• Driver disqualifies violations (only for uncertain driving)

Weight of 1 if none of them apply.

Why it is important: It prioritizes MCs with higher crashes, which is clarified why some violations carry more weight. MCs have expressed their frustrations with severity for certain violations overrated. E.g. Satisfactions of the seat belt a severity of 7, but may not correlate with the higher crashes that faster.

4. Improved intervention thresholds

Three observations categories are targeted at carriers with the highest crashes.

Maintenance of vehicles: Both categories (maintenance of vehicles Maintenance and vehicle maintenance of vehicles) retain the same threshold as the current SMS vehicle maintenance basis.

Driver Fitness: Thresholds vary by carrier type:

• General Airlines: 80%-90%
• Passenger Companies: 65%-75%
• HM aircraft companies: 75%-85%
• Hazmat aircraft companies: 80%-90%

Why it is important: Higher thresholds help FMCSA focus on carriers with the highest crash risks.

5. Proportional percentiles

Removal of non-security-related percentage changes reflects more accurately monthly MC performance trends as the updated method uses the frequency of inspections and crashes to assign an MC-Percentile.

Why it is important: FMCSA can compare the performance of the carriers and see how it is in trending monthly.

6. Greater focus on recent violations

Percentage is calculated for compliance when a carrier has received a violation within the last 12 months. Violations over 12 months will not be awarded a percentile or included based solely on data on road office.

This applies to: Hours of service, vehicles maintenance, vehicle maintenance driver, observed dangerous materials and driver fitness.

Why it is important: FMCSA can focus on carriers with more timely violations and crash risks. Motor companies can do Duhul some inspections/violations as the cause of their score. Instead of tackling their shortcomings and improving, they see their score as a result of a few inspections that despair affecting their business.

7. Updated utilization factor

The utilization factor now applies to MCS with up to 250,000 miles mile traveled (VMT) per year. Average power unit (PU). This reflects better breakdown risk and enforcement needs for carriers with high mileage.

Why it is important: Expansion of the exploitation factor helps target carriers with the highest road exposure to intervention.

8. New segmentation

Expansion of Carrying Segmentation by Operation and Vehicle Type across more compliance categories for better comparisons. It used previously only on uncertain driving and the basic indicator’s basic indicator, but now also includes:

• HM aircraft companies: divided into load tank and non-cargo tank
• Driver Fitness: divided into straight and combined carriers

Why it is important: This new segmentation guarantees that carriers with similar operations and violation patterns are assessed in a similar way.

9. Exclusive not preventable crash

FMCSA excludes “non-prevalent” crashes by calculating SMS results.

Why it is important: FMCSA’s SMS methodology is consistent with its core safety mission and carrier needs.

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By Jaden Tareta

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