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Among the good news in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed revisions to its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program is that the agency intends to expand its Crash Preventability Determination Program. Under that program, motor carriers can submit a Request for Data Review (an RDR) to FMCSA’s DataQs program, asserting that a crash was not preventable by the motor carrier or the truck driver.
Since the program started in May 2020, motor carriers have submitted such requests just over 39,000 times. Nearly 73 percent of those submitted crashes fell within the 16 categories of crashes eligible for review. Once those requests were reviewed, FMCSA determined that 96 percent were non-preventable by FMCSA, meaning that those crashes were not counted against the motor carrier or truck driver under the CSA Safety Measurement System (SMS).
Now FMCSA is looking to clarify those 16 categories of eligible crashes and to add four new categories:
ICSA is preparing comments in support of the crash preventability proposal to be submitted by the June 12, 2023 due date and we encourage members to file their own comments in support of the proposal. After reviewing the comments, FMCSA will make necessary adjustments to the DataQs program and announce a start date for the expanded Crash Preventability Determination Program.
CDL Holders Shouldn’t Start Using Just Yet
The trucking industry has universally opposed the EPA Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) regulations because the technology is not ready for prime time and the rule is oblivious to the realities of freight transportation.
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