CSA Report Reflects Positive Feedback from Trucking Industry
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has released a report detailing the impact that Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) has had on the daily operations of trucking companies.
CSA, which was implemented in December 2010, gathers inspection and violation data about motor carriers, then assigns weights to them and gives scores to the carriers and drivers based on their compliance with safety regulations.
ATRI’s report also describes and analyzes motor carrier attitudes toward and comprehension of FMCSA’s new regulatory program, based on survey data collected from 695 motor carriers.
While first year CSA impacts have not been dramatic, carriers who self-reported having one or more BASICs above threshold were markedly more likely to experience negative changes to their shipper and broker utilization, and insurance rates.
Although insurance costs have remained largely unchanged in CSA's first year of deployment, a small proportion of carriers (12.2%) who did experience a change almost equally reported insurance costs rising versus lowering since CSA's national implementation.
It also appears that smaller carriers are more closely scrutinized than their larger counterparts even though they had fewer self-reported BASICs above threshold.
Overall, however, most carriers believed CSA represents an improvement over SafeStat, and that it will remove unsafe carriers and drivers from the industry and improve safety.
This is the second report released by ATRI examining CSA impacts. Earlier this year, ATRI released the results of its commercial driver CSA survey.
“Our plan is to conduct both of these CSA surveys annually,” commented Rebecca Brewster, ATRI president and COO, “and we believe that both surveys will become key annual indicators of CSA impacts and progress over time.”
Later this year ATRI will release its full CSA study, reflecting both carrier and driver CSA impacts, along with additional CSA statistical analyses.
A copy of the motor carrier and driver survey results are available from ATRI at www.atri-online.org.
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