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ATA Renews Call for FMCSA to Implement Crash Accountability

American Trucking Associations today reiterated its call for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to immediately establish a process to remove from motor carriers’ records crashes where it was plainly evident that the carrier was not to blame.

“Just last month, police gave chase to a driver of a stolen car who crossed a grassy median and struck a truck head-on,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. “It is clearly inappropriate for FMCSA to use these types of crashes to prioritize trucking companies for future government intervention, especially when responsibility for the crash is so obvious.  

“Including these types of crashes in the calculation of carriers’ CSA scores, paints an inappropriate picture for shippers and others that these companies are somehow unsafe,” he said. Currently, carriers’ scores in FMCSA’s safety monitoring system, Compliance, Safety, Accountability, are based on all carrier-involved crashes, including those that the companies’ drivers did not cause and could not reasonably have prevented.
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ATA Truck Tonnage Index Posts Best Ever January

American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.9% in January after jumping 2.4% in December. Tonnage has surged at least 2.4% every month since November, gaining a total of 9.1% over that period.
The jump made it the best January in the history of the index. Compared with January 2012, the SA index was up a robust 6.5%, the best year-over-year result since December 2011.

“The trucking industry started 2013 with a bang, reflected in the best January tonnage report in five years,” ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said.   “While I believe that the overall economy will be sluggish in the first quarter, trucking likely benefited in January from an inventory destocking that transpired late last year, thus boosting volumes more than normal early this year as businesses replenish those lean inventories.”

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Virginia General Assembly Passes Legislation Opposing Tolls on I-95

The American Trucking Associations and NATSO, representing America's travel plazas and truckstops, praised the Virginia General Assembly for taking a stand against tolling of existing interstates.   The transportation legislation that passed today by the Virginia General Assembly puts an end to the Virginia Department of Transportation’s plan to toll I-95 and is an overwhelming sign of growing opposition to tolls on existing interstates.

“By looking at, then rejecting tolls in favor of more efficient revenue sources, Virginia lawmakers have provided a solid example for states looking to finance needed transportation infrastructure,” ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said.
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ATA Applauds NTSB Most Wanted List Release

American Trucking Associations applauded the National Transportation Safety Board for the recent release of its latest Most Wanted List of transportation safety improvements – and expressed its shared interest in advancing several items on the list.

“The NTSB Most Wanted List identifies a number of areas where the Board and ATA have a shared interest in improving highway safety,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves.

Graves specifically cited the Board’s identification of the dangers of impaired and distracted driving, the need to repair and improve the nation’s infrastructure and the benefits of active safety technologies as issues important to the trucking industry.

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ATA Applauds Introduction of Hair Testing Pilot Bill

American Trucking Associations applauded Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wisc.) for his introduction of a bill requiring the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a pilot program to evaluate the use of hair samples to test commercial drivers for illicit drug use.

The legislation would allow fleets to use hair samples, which can be more effective in screening for habitual drug use than conventional testing.
"For many years, ATA has supported improving drug and alcohol testing procedures for commercial drivers," ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said. "From advocating for the first drug and alcohol test standards, to pushing for the creation of a clearinghouse of drug and alcohol test results, to ensure fleets are hiring only safe, clean drivers, ATA has been at the front of the process improvement line."

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