Posted on 10 March 2011 by Morgan Adams

The truck industry has used again get administration to weaken the Obama 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 industry to adopt language warning all together. 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, March 9, 2011
Contact: Candice Tolliver
Tel: (202) 366-9999 or (202) 306-4580

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

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

"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 the concerns of petitioners without affecting the CSA program and its security benefits by this settlement agreement."

The National Association of small trucking company, Inc. (NASTC), which is to accelerate Alliance of North America (TEANA) and the air & expedited motor carrier Association (AEMCA) submitted action program on the 29 November 2010 to FMCSA of CSA. Under the agreement FMCSA of CSA is measurement system (SMS) security public website address concerns regarding the display of information of a commercial motor carrier of safety change.

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

Replace all warning icon currently displayed in Orange on the SMS Web site with the following symbol of the exclamation point in a yellow TriangleRevise the disclaimer language on the SMS Web site to read:
"The data in the safety measurement system (SMS) is used performance data of the Agency and the enforcement community." A symbol, on the basis of this data indicates that FMCSA can prioritize motor carrier for further monitoring. The icon should imply no federal security review of the carrier in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31144. Readers should not displayed carrier's overall health security simply based on the data in this system conclusions. Unless, of course, a motor carrier in the SMS one unsatisfactory crash test in accordance with 49 CFR part 385 has received, or has otherwise no longer by operations the FMCSA is been ordered it is entitled, on roads of the country. 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/.

On Dec. 13, 2010 FMCSA its CSA enforcement program launched that uses is, to all security-based violations of to the roadside inspections and crashes a commercial motor of carrier's on the road safety performance measure analyze. CSA allows reach FMCSA more airlines earlier and provide a series of corrective measures to the carrier's certain security problems prevent before crashes can occur.

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

The current crash test, SMS from the original location, moved to the initial screen is it:

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

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

Use of SMS data for purposes other than the above mentioned can lead to unwanted 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 the carrier you can request data. The DataQ system is available online at http://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov/.

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