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FMCSA Issues Revised CSA 2010 Implementation Schedule

New Program to be phased in over 2010 – 2011 period

Based on feedback from industry, enforcement and the operational model test in nine states, FMCSA has pushed the rollout date of CSA 2010 from the summer of 2010 to the fall 2010. The delay will allow FMCSA to incorporate comments and lessons learned into the CSA 2010 model prior to national rollout. The FMCSA is also currently considering refinements to the new system with regard to issues such as methods of measuring exposure, peer grouping, and violation severity weighting.

Although the roll-out will be delayed until November 30, 2010, FMCSA starting April 12, 2010 will allow motor carriers to preview their performance data as it will appear in CSA 2010. Carriers can access their previews at the CSA 2010 website: http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov . To view their data, motor carriers will have to enter their Personal Identification Number (PIN). Motor carriers that do not have a PIN, or those that have forgotten their PIN, can go to the following web address for assistance: https://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/PKG_PIN_START.PRC_INTRO .

Carriers will have approximately 7 ∏ months to preview their roadside violations data from the CSA 2010 perspective—mid April through November 2010. For the first 3 ∏ months – mid-April through July 2010 – carriers will see their violations categorized by Behavioral Analysis Safety Improvement Categories (BASIC). Beginning in August, after the refinements are complete as noted above, motor carriers will be able to see an assessment of their violations through CSA 2010 (e.g. peer group comparisons). The purpose of this data preview period is to provide individual motor carriers with the opportunity to view their data from the CSA 2010 perspective, and to use the time to identify and take actions to correct deficiencies if any in their operations.

On November 30, 2010, FMCSA is planning on: (1) Replacing its current measurement system, SafeStat, with the new Carrier Safety Management System (CSMS), (2) sending warning letters nationwide, and (3) implementing a revised nationwide Inspection Selection System for roadside inspectors that will be based on CSMS rather than SafeStat. The nine states currently operating in the operational model test will carry out the full array of CSA 2010 interventions after the test concludes in June 2010. These States are Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, and New Jersey. This will only affect carriers based in these states. For the remaining 41 States the new CSA 2010 interventions will be phased in during 2011. Ontario based carriers will be phased in during 2011 with the remaining 41 States.

When the new CSMS is implemented on November 30, 2010, motor carrier BASICs will be publicly displayed at http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov in the same manner that the Safety Evaluation Areas (SEAs) are displayed today under SafeStat. In the past FMCSA removed public access to the Accident SEA on SafeStat because of problems with the completeness of State crash data at that time and because the data do not include information on preventability or accountability. FMCSA is currently conducting a feasibility study on using police accident reports to determine motor carrier crash accountability before the crash data are entered into CSMS. Until this analysis is completed, the Agency will continue to follow its current policy under SafeStat: the crash data will be displayed publicly, but the CSMS assessment of a motor carrier’s crash history will not be publicly displayed.

For complete details on the implementation plan for CSA 2010 please refer to the attached April 9 Federal Register Notice.

Background

Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) is a major FMCSA safety initiative that will improve the effectiveness of the Agency's compliance and enforcement programs. CSA 2010 will help the Agency assess the safety performance of a greater segment of the motor carrier industry and allow it to intervene earlier with more carriers to change unsafe behavior and practices. The ultimate goal is to achieve a greater reduction in large truck and bus crashes, injuries, and fatalities, while making efficient use of the resources of FMCSA and its State partners.

In contrast to the Agency's current operational model, CSA 2010 is characterized by three principal components:

(1) A more comprehensive carrier safety measurement system;

(2) A broader array of progressive interventions to augment comprehensive on-site investigations (compliance reviews), including warning letters, off-site investigations, and on-site focused investigations;

(3) A new safety fitness determination (SFD) methodology based more on performance data and not necessarily tied to an on-site investigation. The third component, a new process pursuant to which FMCSA will formally propose and assign adverse SFDs-- for example, unfit determinations and resulting prohibitions on operations-- is the subject of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that will be published for comment at a later date during 2010.

FMCSA developed the BASICs (Behavioral Analysis Safety Improvement Categories) under the premise that commercial motor vehicle (CMV) crashes can ultimately be traced to the behavior of motor carriers and drivers.

BASIC’s include: Unsafe Driving, Fatigued Driving (Hours-of-Service), Driver Fitness, Controlled

Substances and Alcohol, Vehicle Maintenance, Cargo Related, and Crash History

There are three important ways that the new CSMS is different from the Agency's current measurement system, SafeStat. The new CSMS:

1. Is organized by seven specific behavioral areas (BASICs), while SafeStat is organized into four broad SEAs;

2. Uses all safety-based inspection violations, while SafeStat uses only out-ofservice violations and selected moving violations;

3. Uses risk-based violation weightings while SafeStat does not

ACI eManifest Roll-Out Delayed Again. This time by one month to Oct. 31.

(OTTAWA) - The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that is again delaying the implementation of the ACI eManifest program for the highway mode, this time by one month from September 30th to October 31st, 2010. ACI eManifest was initially slated to roll out in June of this year, but was pushed to September to allow CBSA to ensure the integrity of the program given the volumes of data being transmitted by highway carriers. According to CBSA the reason for the most recent delay is related to the software of other commercial programs, not ACI.

According to Jason Proceviat, CBSA’s eManifest Director, “While ACI is ready to go, we bundle some commercial programs together, and there are a few delays from other areas that need to be addressed before we can go live.”

Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) CEO David Bradley said "the trucking industry understands the challenges involved in implementing such a complex program, but we are frustrated by the latest delay.” He said he hopes CBSA will meet the new implementation date. “Carriers are seeking improved efficiencies at the border,” he said. “This includes electronic transmission of data through ACI, and we are looking forward to implementation sooner rather than later. We want to avoid the stop-start pattern that characterized implementation of the ACE eManifest program in the US.”

There is a keen interest from the trucking industry in getting the program rolled out. Carriers have been preparing for ACI eManifest for a number of years now. In fact, close to a hundred carriers approached CBSA just to participate in the early testing of ACI. CTA has been working closely on the development of the program and believes it will have a beneficial impact on cross-border efficiency.

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