This story appears in the 2011 MATS digital directory. After several years of anxious waiting, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) formally unveiled its Compliance, Safety, ...

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More than 77 percent of drivers incorrectly believe that a trucking company inherits past violations from new hires, while nearly two-thirds of drivers are somewhat or extremely concerned that they ...

Before CSA went into effect, there were plenty of dire predictions about the number of drivers the new safety rating system would wash out of the workforce. According to a recent survey of motor ...

The American Transportation Research Institute has released a new white paper showing a majority of the nation’s truck drivers do not have an understanding of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...

There's little doubt among many industry stakeholders that the data and rankings in the Compliance, Safety and Accountability program, or CSA, can lead some to think that a carrier is unsafe when its ...

To help drivers with the new CSA 2010 enforcement regime, J. J. Keller offers its ‘CSA Handbook: A Complete Guide for CMV Drivers’. The handbook helps commercial truck drivers understand how their ...

Thanks to a combination of government regulations and market pressures, operating trucks safely has never been more mutually beneficial to fleets and drivers. Ad Loading... On one hand, motor carriers ...

The new numbers are in and commercial truck drivers continue to doubt the effectiveness of Compliance, Safety, Accountability and often misunderstand how it works – while enforcement personnel ...

CSA consists of seven categories: unsafe driving, hours of service violations, driver fitness (which Bryan said should be relabeled something like driver qualifications), vehicle maintenance (which ...

One question I put to Keppler probed top law enforcement concerns with the program. Based on conversations I’ve had with officers around the country as well as drivers, I expected some disconnect ...