The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has the compliance security accountability (CSA) program, higher requirements for commercial motor carriers adopt started.

One of the measures is a new safety measurement system (SMS) which helps with high-risk motor carriers as to identify with a history of compliance problems. The new program evaluates the carrier in seven areas prevention are critical to crash, and this data is updated monthly. These seven criteria, called bases, stands for behavior analysis and improvement of security categories and determine the carrier's crash test.

The basics are:

insecure Driverfatigued driver driver fitness driver use of controlled substances or Alcoholvehicle Maintenancecargo problems and dangerous Materialscrash indicator (number of population crashes)

In addition to this new safety measurement system the FMCSA has implemented other regulatory changes that impact how truck companies are monitored. The new job of screening program (PSP) has been developed, to commercial vehicle screen applicants for past violations of security help. This program is has to go a truck company operated by the FMCSA and allows online, numbers a fee and access to agency information a driver history, including three years of test data and five years of crash data.

An other security measures go into effect is the increased use of electronic on board recorder. These are digital logbooks, which by a truck driver to track his hours driven, its routes, stops, and distribution points are kept. Drivers have been known to cheat protocols, so that the FMCSA commissioned in April 2010, on paper that 10 per cent or more injury rating to their inspected protocols had a any carrier must install recorder in all their vehicles.

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