Having a crash determined to be non-preventable, meaning at its essence that the driver of the truck did everything practicable to avoid the crash and/or couldn’t possibly have done so, in the Federal ...

After a decade of trucking companies complaining that the government unfairly counted crashes against their safety record that were not their fault, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ...

Trucking companies and their counsel have struggled to decide whether a carrier should conduct a preventability determination following an accident. Assessing how an accident happened and providing ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing to again broaden the definition of crashes that it includes in its Crash Preventability Determination Program. That program was developed ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued further guidance to clarify how carriers can dispute certain crashes initially ruled preventable and have them removed from their Compliance, ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on July 31 proposed a permanent crash preventability determination program to gain additional data to ...

I had a broken watch once, and even that was right twice a day. I have used that idiom time and again in personal and professional environments. I always get a chuckle out of most people when I toss ...

The Motor Carrier Regulatory Reform coalition certainly thinks so, according to a petition for such filed last month with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that, if pursued, would take ...

Transport Topics reports in its April 3 article titled “Crash Not Your Fault? FMCSA Says Soon It Won’t Hurt Your CSA Score” that the agency intends to identify no-fault crashes beginning in August.