This story appears in the 2011 MATS digital directory. After several years of anxious waiting, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) formally unveiled its Compliance, Safety, ...

Most fleets don’t have a safety problem—they have a communication problem. Unsafe driving, HOS violations, maintenance issues—those don’t happen in a vacuum. They happen when expectations aren’t clear ...

Vigillo has improved its CSA scorecards and added additional tools so managers can further explore how drivers influence a fleet’s overall CSA ranking Vigillo has improved its CSA scorecards and added ...

Truck drivers may not have a solid understanding of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new CSA enforcement program, and a majority are concerned that it could cause them to lose their ...

Thanks to a combination of government regulations and market pressures, operating trucks safely has never been more mutually beneficial to fleets and drivers. On one hand, motor carriers are ...

Vigillo, creators of the CSA Driver Scorecard product used by many carriers to rate drivers in CSA safety performance categories as well as the free Roadside Resumé for drivers, has released its ...

More than 77 percent of drivers incorrectly believe that a trucking company inherits past violations from new hires, while nearly two-thirds of drivers are somewhat or extremely concerned that they ...

The first installment of “Who’s keeping score” examined issues surrounding driver PSP reports and carrier use of them in qualifying/screening procedures for new hires/lessees. Read it here. Vigillo’s ...

To help drivers with the new CSA 2010 enforcement regime, J. J. Keller offers its ‘CSA Handbook: A Complete Guide for CMV Drivers’. The handbook helps commercial truck drivers understand how their ...

CSA consists of seven categories: unsafe driving, hours of service violations, driver fitness (which Bryan said should be relabeled something like driver qualifications), vehicle maintenance (which ...

This story appears in the Aug. 15 print edition of Transport Topics. A survey of more than 4,500 truck drivers concluded that drivers have a poor understanding of the government’s Compliance, Safety, ...

The new numbers are in and commercial truck drivers continue to doubt the effectiveness of Compliance, Safety, Accountability and often misunderstand how it works – while enforcement personnel ...