* DC - Following pressure from trucking industry, lawmakers push back on FMCSA’s Safety Fitness rule
-- A group of 33 members of the U.S. House last week sent a letter to senior members of the House’s Appropriations Committee asking them to put a stop to the DOT’s Safety Fitness Determination (SFD) rulemaking (*). The 33 Representatives asked for a provision stating as much to be included in the coming drafts of the 2017 DOT funding bills... The ad-hoc carrier coalitions — which have included the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the Western States Trucking Association, the National Association of Small Trucking Companies, many state trucking associations and dozens of other trucking groups — argue the SFD rule violates the FAST Act’s CSA reform measures... The March 17 letter to top appropriators, likewise, argues the same, leaning heavily on the arguments made by the carrier groups’ letters. “Common sense dictates that FMCSA should complete the reforms to the CSA/SMS system before proceeding to a new method of evaluating safety fitness of carriers,” the letter states. “It is irresponsible and inconceivable that FMCSA would use the same data and analysis Congress said is faulty in a new safety fitness determination” ... The letter continues, “Incorporating misleading safety data and analysis into a new safety fitness determination will not provide the desired safety to the travelling public” ...
(*) The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Jan. 15 a rulemaking proposal designed to update FMCSA’s safety rating methodology by integrating on-road safety data from inspections, along with the results of carrier investigations and crash reports, to determine a motor carrier’s overall safety fitness on a monthly updated basis.
Washington, DC, USA -
CCJ Digital, by James Jaillet - March 21, 2016
Labels: rules and regulations, trucking industry news USA
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