9 changes to FMCSA CSA registration: What you need to know

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The FBCSA Safety Department renews the compliance, safety and accountability system for unifying violations, simplifying the weights of intensity, and modernizing intervention thresholds – and more. At this time, transport companies still have to use SMS to review safety performance.

In the end, this new rule will reduce the impact of a single bad examination on the engine transport company (MC) and unify the severity of violations to settle the stadium of all transport companies.

FMCSA is currently in the second stage and acceptance of the general reviews of the review. During this stage, the engine transport companies can log in to the CSA priority preview site with their point number to get a glimpse of what their classifications will appear under the new rule and provide comments. Please note that these changes are still under review and have not yet been implemented.

Here is a summary of the highest CSA that changes with the new rule:

1. The reorganized basics

The basics are now “compliance categories” and focus on motor transport companies with high fault rates and insecure behaviors caused by dangerous driving, drugs and alcohol violations, and truck maintenance lack. In addition, violations outside the service will always be considered an invalid leadership, regardless of the initial violation.

Maintenance of vehicles includes both Vehicle maintenance driver was observedOr the elements that can be observed reasonably in inspection (level 2) walking (level 2), and Maintenance of vehiclesWhich contains all other maintenance violations, which were usually identified during a routine examination or complete inspection on the road (level 1).

Why is this important: This change helps to transport car and law enforce more accurately in determining the behavior of the unsafe driver, drug and alcohol violations, in addition to identifying the source of vehicle maintenance problems.

2. Violations on the side of the reorganized road

Up to 2000 violating icons were reduced to 100 groups of safety behaviors. This prevents contradictions with multiple violations. Certificates can be written for each violation, but since similar violations are now assembled, breach groups can be dealt with as one violation.

Why is this importantSetting safety issues is more important than how to document them. Now, transport companies that have similar safety problems are held in the same standard. Car transport companies may look at DOT officers and the concerned violations as accurate or “nitpicky”. When calculating a group of violations as one violation within the framework of the group, drivers and companies can focus on basic issues rather than thwarting multiple violations that affect the levels of priority.

3. Weights of simplified severity

All compliance categories – including accidents and their consequences – are appointed with a severe weight of 1 or 2 based on violations cited:

Weight 2 for:

• OOS violations (except for unsafe driving)
• Driver is not qualified for violations (only for unsafe driving)

Weight 1 if neither of them applies.

Why is this important: It gives priority to MCS with high collapse rates, and clarify why some violations bear more weight. MCS expressed frustration of the weight of the intensity of some of the estimated violations. For example, the seat belt violations carry a severe weight of 7 but may not be associated with high collapse rates such as speed.

4. improved intervention thresholds

Three compliance categories target transport companies with the highest rates of failure.

Vehicle maintenance: Both categories (vehicle maintenance and maintenance of the car that has been observed) retain the same current SMS maintenance threshold.

Fitness driver: Slaves differ according to the type of carrier:

• Public transport companies: 80 % -90 %
• Passenger holders: 65 % -75 %
• HM carriers: 75 % -85 %
• Hazmat holders: 80 % -90 %

Why is this importantTop thresholds that help FMCSA focus on transport companies with the highest risk of disruption.

5. Celsius

The disposal of the most important percentage of safety changes reflects more accurate MC performance directions because the updated methodology uses the frequency of inspection and disruption to set the MC Celsius.

Why is this importantFMCSA can compare the performance of transport companies and know how to go monthly.

6. The greatest focus on modern violations

The percentage of compliance is calculated when the carrier received a violation during the past 12 months. Violations over the age of 12 months will not be allocated on the basis of road inspection data.

This applies to: service hours, vehicle maintenance, vehicle maintenance driver, dangerous materials and driver fitness.

Why is this importantFMCSA can focus on transport companies with more timely violations and disruption risks. Cars transport companies may have some inspections/violations as a reason for their degrees. Instead of treating shortcomings and improvement, they look at their degrees as a result of some inspections that desperately affected their company.

7. The updated use factor

The use factor now applies to MCS with up to 250,000 miles a traveler vehicle (VMT) per unit of medium generation (PU). This better reflects the risk and enforcement needs of high -resolution transport companies.

Why is this importantExpanding the use factor helps to target transport companies with the highest exposure to roads to intervene.

8. New fragmentation

Expanding the carrier fragmentation by operating and type of car through more compliance categories to make better comparisons. It has been applied only on the basics of driving indicators and insecure breakdown, but it also includes:

• HM carriers: division into a cargo tank and a non -Cargo tank
• Fitness driver: split into straight and complex transport companies

Why is this important: This new retail guarantees that transport companies with similar operations and violation are evaluated in a similar way.

9. Except for unimaginable incidents

FMCSA excludes “non -parkable” when calculating the results of SMS.

Why is this importantFMCSA SMS methodology is in line with the basic safety task and carrier needs.

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Written by Gadin Tarita

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