Would a map that pinpoints areas where commercial vehicle enforcement is particularly aggressive, along with the targeted trucking regulations, come in handy for a fleet and its drivers?
The folks at Vigillo, who provide CSA data services to 2,500 fleets and their 1.2 million drivers, believe so. The State Enforcement Disparity Analysis is the latest product from the IQ Lab, Vigillo’s custom-data unit.
The dataset is not designed to help carriers evade enforcement, but to help them prepare for enforcement that varies greatly from state to state and from lane to lane, Vigillo founder Steve Bryan explained to me after he introduced the package in a Sept. 5 webinar.
The difference, Bryan emphasizes, is “just knowing what to expect.”
“There is all kinds of discussion and analysis around CSA, encouraging people to focus on those things that are the most predictive of future crashes,” he says. “That’s where the pressure is on the industry. But if enforcement is focusing on other things, then that’s where we’re at a crossroads.”
Simply, in order to protect CSA scores and a carrier’s public reputation, targeted enforcement of the myriad trucking regs leads inevitably to targeted compliance.
“You can’t do everything,” Bryan says. “You’ve got to know what is most critical. That’s what we are trying to do. If you’re working on everything, you’re working on nothing.”
