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FMCSA unveils five-year strategic plan ATA says draft comes up short for crash causation The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released a draft version of its “2011-2016 Strategic Plan: Raising the Safety Bar,” a document that outlines a framework to carry out its safety mandate and places ...

By CCJ Staff Published September 1, 2011

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FMCSA wants to release driver safety data Agency seeking regulatory authority over drivers in highway bill The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants authority to release driver safety data, in effect reversing its earlier stance that drivers would not be ranked publicly under the Compliance Safety Accountability ...

By CCJ Staff Published August 5, 2011

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ATA, OOIDA seek truck crashworthiness standards Equipment improvements would lower fatalities, groups say For nearly four decades, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has focused on improving survivability rates for passenger car drivers involved in crashes, but two industry groups say more attention also needs to be ...

By CCJ Staff Published July 1, 2011

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CVSA: Fewer funds could raise truck-related accident rate The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance last month warned Congress that funding commercial motor vehicle safety programs at lower-than-current levels would weaken state enforcement efforts, and that large truck-related injuries and deaths could tick upward. “We are finally heading in ...

By CCJ Staff Published May 1, 2011

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NHTSA to consider speed limiter rule in 2012 More than four years after the trucking industry asked the federal government to mandate speed limiters on new heavy-duty trucks, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it would launch a rulemaking on the issue in 2012. ...

By CCJ Staff Published February 13, 2011

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Preventable or Not Doe messes up Muffy’s Mustang Cautiously piloting his tractor-trailer along sunny two-lane Second Avenue at the posted speed limit of 35 mph while intermittently burping from the huge morale-boosting helping of “Kid Flesher’s Awesomely Hot Two-Gun Chili” he’d wolfed down at Tommy’s Texas Diner, ...

By CCJ Staff Published January 1, 2011

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Colorado carrier chooses EOBRs over fine Agency uses settlement process to push technology The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Nov. 4 that it had ordered Greeley, Colo.-based JBS Carriers Inc. to install electronic onboard recorders or pay $81,780 in civil penalties. The settlement agreement requires JBS ...

By CCJ Staff Published December 3, 2010

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NTSB calls for new safety technology Event data recorders, collision warning systems on list In late September, the National Transportation Safety Board called upon the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to require all heavy commercial vehicles to be equipped with video event recorders, improve its fatigue educational ...

By CCJ Staff Published November 8, 2010

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Truck-involved fatalities down 20% Industry cites hours rules for improved statistics Updated 2009 fatality and injury data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) released last month showed 3,380 truck-involved traffic fatalities in 2009, a 20 percent decline from the 4,245 fatalities ...

By CCJ Staff Published October 1, 2010

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FMCSA amends SMS Agency wants to better identify high-risk carriers Addressing concerns raised by the American Trucking Associations and other industry groups earlier this summer about the design of Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced updates to the Safety ...

By CCJ Staff Published September 2, 2010