CSA Data Trail
10 toughest states for hours of service in 2015
2015’s data shows an upward trend in the hours of service violations doled out by the top 10 states. When reporting began in the CSA’s Data Trail series in 2013 ...
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 3: The ‘ugly little secret’ of CSA
In the final part of the CSA's Distorted Rankings series: An in-depth look at how severity weights and peer groups lead to other CSA problems.
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 2: SMS, safety rating system disconnect compounds problems
The difference in results between CSA rankings and the safety rating system is marked. In some quarters, eliminating that disconnect is seen as at least a partial solution to public ...
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 1: CSA’s flawed scoring doesn’t stop third parties from judging carriers
Three and a half years after Compliance Safety Accountability began its radical scrambling of how trucking safety is regulated and scored, carriers and owner-operators continue to suffer from its fallout, ...
CSA is ‘unreliable’ and here’s why – and what to tell customers, says ATA
Trucking continues to question the accuracy and application of data at the heart of the federal government’s regulatory program, and a powerful political voice for the industry has issued a ...
CSA is a ‘whim,’ ‘abandonment of duty’ by regulator, transport law expert says
Almost three years since its launch, Compliance, Safety, Accountability remains a source of confusion and for the American trucking industry. CSA is "an abandonment of FMCSA’s duty to regulate safety,” ...
Risk & Reward: How CSA’s data shows discrimination toward small carriers
CCJ takes an in-depth look at data from CSA in its first two years — Here's what it says.
Infographic: Small Fleets loom large on inspectors’ radar
The smallest fleets' trucks get inspected much more frequently than those of large fleets. Click here to see the comparisons between one-truck independent owner-operators versus ...
Risk & Reward: Industry, FMCSA at odds over CSA
Trucking advocates have said that CSA does not allow all carriers to play on a level field. FMCSA argues otherwise. Whose argument will win?
CSA’s crash flaw: Enforcement, accident rates do not mesh
FMCSA’s massive safety program shows gaps in correlation between enforcement and accident rates by carrier size.
Crackdown: FMCSA’s putting extra muscle into shutting down truck fleets
From in-depth coverage and data review, it's become clear that FMCSA is putting extra muscle into shutting down truck
and bus fleets. Small carriers are most vulnerable.
Risk & Reward: CSA data shows independents at risk
Independent wner-operators have a much greater chance of getting inspected and put out of service than owner-operators and company drivers at large carriers, CSA's data shows.
