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 coalition has petitioned FMCSA to start a rulemaking on how it analyzes and publishes data on motor carrier crashes. A coalition of 10 trucking-related stakeholders, including several lobbies ...

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.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 31 proposed to make permanent a demonstration program that documents on a driver's or motor carrier’s safety profile instances when a crash ...

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 ...

Since August 2017, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has allowed motor carriers to use its DataQs system to submit crashes for evaluation of whether the crashes were preventable or not.

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 ...

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 ...

A formal rulemaking likely will not be required to make permanent a federal demonstration project that seeks to assign proper blame for trucking accidents. The 24-month "Crash Preventability ...

Ever watch a basketball game and notice the player who sits on the offensive side of the court looking for easy baskets? Basketball, soccer, or even hockey fans may recall instances of cherry-picking ...

Are oncology readmissions preventable? If so, what resources and changes in practice or culture would be required to reduce readmissions? Three independent reviewers analyzed 72 hospital readmissions ...