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CSA Fleet Compliance Ratings System Unfair To Small Business Truckers

OOIDA says in its current form, CSA system has inaccuracies, arbitrary weightings, no due process. These fleet compliance issues continue to hurt small fleet operators. Many small truckers are turning to smartphone apps like those from BigRoad to automate their driver logs and avoid CSA penalties, by eliminating common errors and omissions that roadside inspectors love to pick up on. OOIDA says in its current form, CSA system has inaccuracies, arbitrary weightings, no due process. These fleet compliance issues continue to hurt small fleet operators.  Many small truckers are turning to smartphone apps like those from BigRoad to automate their driver logs and avoid CSA penalties, by eliminating common errors and omissions that roadside inspectors love to pick up on.

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Wanted: Smarter, simpler, more streamlined trucking regulations

A very good article by Greg Fulton in Overdrive Online that is relevant to the CVSA conference I am attending in Denver this week.  Lawmakers and enforcement officials should take advice from Greg and his observations that recent statistics reflect that more than 90 percent of the trucking companies in the country are made up of businesses that have 20 or fewer employees.  Very few of these companies have a staff attorney, regulatory director, or tax specialist. Yet because of the increasing complex web of laws and regulations in our country, almost all of these companies at one time during the year will need to retain the services of one of these specialists.

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Driver Shortage – FMCSA And CSA To Blame?

Although I find some of the driver turnover numbers in this article hard to believe.. especially the small carrier numbers…but we know the driver shortage is a reality.

A worsening shortage of truck drivers is pushing up freight rates and delaying some deliveries, defying the weak economy, high unemployment and falling gasoline prices.

“It’s getting harder to get drivers,” says Mike Card, president of Combined Transport of Central Point, Ore., and incoming chairman of the American Trucking Associations. “I could hire 50 guys right now.” He now employs 393 drivers.

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