Posted on 10 March 2011 by Morgan Adams

The trucking industry has used again get to weaken the Obama management how the SMS data for public review. The current warning never went through the approval process and the industry brought an action to change the warning. The FMCSA would have removed the warning all together adopt the industry language. The FMCSA took the industry language.

Currently appear poor air carrier on an alert status (FMCSA already the color of red in changed with the introduction of CSA 2010 Bernstein at the request of the industry). Alert status has been changed now again as follows. In addition, warnings were saved under the old system in the historical data. Warnings no longer appear with the historical information.

The announcement of the FMCSA States:

FMCSA 02years
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Contact: Candice Tolliver
Tel: (202) 366-9999 or (202) 306-4580

FMCSA reaches settlement agreement in National Association of small trucking companies litigation security accountability compliance program

Washington, DC: The U.S. Department of transportation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it released a settlement agreement with three truck associations, the legal information on the website of FMCSA motor carrier enforcement program, compliance security accountability (CSA) has reached.

"CSA is a safety-critical program that helps to reduce commercial motor vehicle-related crashes and save lives," FMCSA said administrator Anne S. Ferro. "We solved problems of petitioners without adverse effect on the CSA program and its security benefits by this settlement agreement."

The National Association of small trucking company, Inc. (NASTC), to speed up the Alliance of North America (TEANA) and the air & expedited motor carrier Association (AEMCA) filed lawsuit on 29 November 2010 to FMCSA of the CSA program. In accordance with the agreement FMCSA CSAs safety measurement system (SMS) is changing public website address concerns regarding the display of information of a commercial motor carrier of safety.

The most important changes, the FMCSA on the public website of SMS from 25 March 2011 are as follows:

Replace all warning icon to read the exclamation point in a yellow TriangleRevise of the disclaimer language on the SMS Web site displayed currently in Orange on the SMS Web site with the following symbol:
"The data into the security performance data that is used by the Agency and enforcement is measurement system (SMS)". A symbol based shows on this data that FMCSA can prioritize motor carrier for further monitoring. The icon should imply no federal safety evaluation of the carrier in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31144. Readers should not conclusions about the carrier's General Security State simply based displayed on the data in this system. If a motor vehicle in the SMS unsatisfactory crash test in accordance with 49 CFR part 385 has received, or has otherwise no longer by operations the FMCSA is, appointed them entitled to maintain roadways in the nation. "Motor carrier safety ratings are available at http://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/ and motor carrier licensing and insurance status are available at http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/."

13 Dec 2010 FMCSA its CSA enforcement program to parse launched, to measure all security-based violations of to the roadside inspections and crashes, a commercial motor carriers on the road of safety level. Allows FMCSA reach CSA certain security issues addressing more interventions of the carrier of various corrective carriers once and deploy, the crashes can occur.

To learn more about the CSA settlement agreement, please visit the CSA website at http://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/.

Safety rated current, moved from the original location after SMS screen, it means:

The motor carrier safety Federal Administration (FMCSA) safety management system (SMS) is an automated system of FMCSA used to motor vehicles on the road safety to monitor performance. FMCSA analyzes security by grouping data carriers in the SMS in seven behavioral analysis and safety improvement categories (basics), which in turn are used to identify potential security issues with individual carriers and determine when an enforcement intervention may be suitable.

The data and the basics of the enforcement community serve investigations and to prioritize roadside inspections. SMS data system determination (SFD) fitness is no security, is part of 385 no security according to 49 c.f.r. and does not appear to be FMCSA final decision about the accuracy of the data in the SMS.

Use of SMS data system for other than the above could result in undesirable results and inaccurate conclusions. FMCSA recommends, on all motor carriers periodically review the SMS data system and if you check the accuracy of their SMS data through DataQs, correct an electronic data system in which vehicles can request you data. The DataQ system is available online at http://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov/.

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