You’ve heard it right—the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has modified the CSA program, and guess what? The CSA Scores are back online.
When Congress passed the FAST Act/Highway Bill last year, they instructed the FMCSA to remove CSA scores from public view until certain reporting problems could be fixed. The FMCSA has come back with their solution, and has now started posting the scores on an absolute basis instead of one that compares carriers to each other. There are many considerations to this, but suffice it to say that with this move the FMCSA has once again created uncertainty for shippers and carriers.
Watch this week’s video to find out one important change that’s been made to these scores.
Why are these changes important? If you're using a carrier that has poor scores and that carrier is involved in an accident, you're subjecting your company to the real possibility of costly litigation.
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