- A March 20 fatal crash (http://abcn.ws/1GUmWVc) where a car carrying three off-duty New Jersey police officers driving the wrong way on a divided highway hit a truck;
- A March 20 fatal crash in Texas (http://bit.ly/1btfruB) where a suspected drunk driver driving the wrong way on Interstate 27 hit a truck head on;
- A March 24 fatal crash in Washington, DC (http://bit.ly/1COPa4r) where a passenger was killed when a drunk driver struck a parked tractor trailer.
ATA Again Asks FMCSA to Make Common Sense Fix to Safety Measurement System
By: American Trucking Associations | Mar 26 2015 at 09:41 AM | Intermodal
In comments filed with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the American Trucking Associations again urged the agency to make a common sense change to its Compliance, Safety, Accountability safety measurement system – the removal of crashes trucking companies and their drivers did not cause.
“ATA identified the inclusion of all crashes, regardless of responsibility, as a serious shortcoming of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability system over five years ago,” the trucking group said in comments filed March 25 (http://is.gd/CSACmmnts). “It is illogical, and a poor use of scarce enforcement resources, to label carriers as unsafe based on crashes they did not cause.”
Currently, FMCSA insists on using all crashes against carriers, even ones the commercial vehicle obviously did not cause like: