February 4, 2014
In a recent report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated that the federal government should revise part of its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program because of limits on access to needed data.
The report said the Safety Management
System (SMS), a key part of CSA, faces challenges because “most regulations used to calculate SMS scores are not violated often enough to strongly associate them with crash risk for individual carriers.”
A spokesperson for the FMCSA said that the GAO’s latest recommendations will be carefully considered, and also defended the CSA SMS by saying that research shows it is more effective at identifying dangerous motor carriers than the system it replaced in 2010.
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