Despite its praise for the efforts of Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010, the American Trucking Association voiced some of its concerns before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit last week. These concerns specifically relate to safety and equality. For example, the ATA suggested determining causation of a crash before entered into drivers’ records so they and their carriers would only be held accountable for accidents they cause. Additional suggestions include measuring a carrier’s exposure by vehicle miles travelled rather than number of units in order to make more equitable comparisons.
The American Trucking Associations supports Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 but has concerns with its current design and how these flaws will affect the industry and highway safety if not corrected, an ATA representative testified Wednesday, June 23, before a U.S. House subcommittee.ATA Backs CSA 2010, But Says Measure Needs Work
In testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Keith Klein said ATA fully supports CSA 2010’s objectives of targeting unsafe operators, changing their behavior and removing the most egregious actors from the road. Klein said ATA also supports the CSA 2010 initiative because it is based on safety performance rather than compliance with paperwork requirements; it focuses limited enforcement resources on specific areas of deficiency, rather than on comprehensive onsite audits; and it eventually will provide real-time updated safety performance measurements.
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