2024 Facts for Drivers OCR - Copy_26-26.pdf

SAFETY & SECURITY This chapter contains information designed to increase the profes- sional truck driver's competency in, and knowledge of, the basic principles of safe and secure driving, the general rules of the road, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs...

SAFETY & SECURITY This chapter contains information designed to increase the profes- sional truck driver's competency in, and knowledge of, the basic principles of safe and secure driving, the general rules of the road, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs), and the Hazard- ous Materials (HM) regulations. This chapter is not intended to be the sole source on these topics. Nothing in this Facts for Drivers relieves a driver of responsibility to know and comply with the applicable U.S. federal rules and regula- tions and those of each state and locality in which the driver operates. Safety Regulations CSA The Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)’s safety monitoring and enforcement program designed to: 1) identify and prioritize unsafe motor carriers for enforcement intervention; and, 2) provide data to third parties (Le., shippers, brokers, insurers, etc.) to make safety-based business decisions. CSA uses roadside inspection data and accident records to prioritize carriers for FMCSA enforcement or “intervention.” The system does this by: 1. Collecting data from safety events such as roadside inspections and accidents; 2. Weighing the violations and crashes based on time and severity (more recent and more severe events bear more weight); 3. Placing the data into groups called Behavioral Analysis Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) and using statistical formulas to create BASIC Measures; 4. Scoring carriers based on their BASIC Measures relative to other carriers in their safety event (peer) group which ts roughly based on the number of safety-related events (violations, inspections, or crashes); and