CSA Scores: The Latest
Over the past week, the House of Representatives received a bill that requests to pull the CSA scores from the view of the public eye. The bill also included the call to improve the CSA program while also making changes to help with law enforcement on the roads. The trucking industry has come together over this cause in hopes of changing the CSA scores and the algorithm used to generate said scores. The industry feels as though these scores are being used in a way that is unjust and unfair.
The new bill calls for a pairing between the CSA and the National Academy of Public Administration to help change the program with different goals in mind. These goals are:
- To address the difference between bus companies and trucking companies
- To avoid harm to small carriers “as a result of limited safety data availability”
- To utilize only the data that directly correlates to “be predictive of motor carrier crashes”
- To control the variations of state reported data and self-reported data with accountability for crash faults and “geographical differences”
Should the bill pass, the National Academy of Public Administration would be required to begin studying new ways to improve the program over a one year span. Any recommendations made by NAPA would then be required to be implemented by FMCSA over a 90 day period of receiving the report.
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