CVEO 3 Larry PascoSpokane

Washington State PatrolCommercial Vehicle DivisionDistrict Supervisor

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WHY?CMV Fatalities in Washington

2007 (60)2008 (54)2009 (30)2010 (24)

2011(3 YTD May)

Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

International not for profit organization

Compromised of law enforcement and industry

Goal is uniformity and reciprocity

CVSA Roadside InspectionsLevel 1

Full Inspection

Level 2Walk around

Level 3Paperwork/driver only

Compliance, Safety, Accountability

(CSA)

A New Way To Measure and Address Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

• Does CSA 2010 change the way we conduct our enforcement?

• No.• It will be business as usual. No laws have

changed, just the way safety scores are calculated.

• Knowledge of how CSA 2010 works will help you answer questions, head off rumors, and handle complaints.

• The way FMCSA measures carrier safety – Identifies unsafe carrier and driver behaviors that lead to

crashes– Uses all safety-based roadside inspection violations

• How FMCSA addresses carrier safety issues – Reaches more carriers earlier and more frequently– Improves efficiency of investigations

• Focuses on specific unsafe behaviors• Identifies root causes• Defines and requires corrective actions

What Changed?

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Methodology Overview

• Gather 24 months of on-road safety event data (i.e., inspections, crashes) to create a safety event history

• Place each carrier violation and/or crash into a BASIC

• Convert BASIC data into quantifiable measure/rate

• Develop a percentile rank for each BASIC based on each carrier BASIC measure

Safety Event Data

BASIC Data

BASIC Measures Percentile

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BASICs focus on behaviors linked to crash risk1. Unsafe Driving (Parts 392 & 397)

2. Fatigued Driving (Hours-of-Service);Parts 392 & 395)

3. Driver Fitness (Parts 383 & 391)

4. Controlled Substances/Alcohol (Parts 382 & 392)

5. Vehicle Maintenance (Parts 393 & 396)

6. Cargo-Related (Parts 392, 393, 397 & HM)

7. Crash Indicator

BASICs

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The Operational Model

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New Agency Plans for Drivers

• The new measurement system provides an internal tool to address CMV drivers called the Driver Safety Measurement System (DSMS):– Provides enhanced information on individual drivers to

investigators to identify drivers with safety problems– Allows for prioritizing driver sampling during carrier

investigation– Supports investigator follow up on significant violations (Red

Flag Violations)

• Under CSA, individual drivers will not be assigned safety ratings or safety fitness determinations

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Carrier Measurement: SMS Results

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Violation Details Provided in SMS

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Further Drilldown in SMS

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Further Drilldown in SMS

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Further Drilldown in SMS

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Further Drilldown in SMS

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How does a carrier improve and get out of the intervention process?

• “Good” Inspections

• “Get Well” Rules– Unsafe Driving and Controlled Substances/Alcohol BASICs

• No percentile assigned if no inspections with a violation in these BASICs in the last year

– Crash Indicator• No percentile assigned if no crashes in last year

– Fatigued Driving (HOS), Driver Fitness, Vehicle Maintenance and Cargo-Related BASICs

• No percentile assigned if:– No inspections with a violation in that BASIC within the past year; and– Most recent relevant inspection does not have a violation of that BASIC

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Carrier Access to Measures and Percentiles

• Carriers have access to full SMS results and BASIC measurements

• Public has access to SMS results and BASIC measurements except for percentile scores for the Crash Indicator and Cargo-Related BASIC

– Cargo-Related violations are available to the public• Decision regarding what to display was based on feedback

through out the field test and data preview

– List of Crashes are available to the public• Similar to the Accident SEA in SafeStat

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• Pre-employment Screening Program (PSP)– PSP was mandated by Congress and is not a part of

CSA – “Driver Profiles” from FMCSA’s Driver Information

Resource (DIR) are available to carriers through PSP– Driver Profiles will only be released with driver

authorization– PSP is currently available, access and additional

information can be found at www.psp.fmcsa.dot.gov

New Agency Plans for Drivers (cont’d)

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Quality data is key to CSA 2010 Current data is useful and meaningful;

improvements can always be made DataQs provides the public (including carriers

and drivers) the opportunity to challenge the accuracy of federal and state reported data

U.S. Department of TransportationFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

FMCSA Data Quality

The DataQs system is an electronic means forCarriers to file concerns about Federal and State data

Through this system, data concerns are automatically forwarded to the appropriate office for resolution (In Washington, CVD HQ)

The system also allows carriers to monitor the status of each filing.

The DataQs program (https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov)U.S. Department of TransportationFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

What is a DataQ?

Improper Challenges: Driver fired, please remove all these violations Crash not our fault, please remove Driver caused the violation, please remove Violation was committed by an owner operator

or other carrier that was leased to our operation when the violation occurred, please remove

Company with a valid lease agreement to an owner operator challenges that the violation should be assigned to the owner operator

Challenging Data= DataQ

Proper Challenges: Driver not in violation Vehicle not in violation Believe the officer has incorrectly applied the

regulation to your operation The officer did not allow for an exemption Error in documentation from another

government/state agency

Challenging Data= DataQ

With respect to crash and roadside inspection

data, the MCMIS documents the occurrence and results of these events as reported by the States. Any challenges to data provided by State agencies must be resolved by the appropriate State agency. Once a State office makes a determination on the validity of a challenge, FMCSA considers that decision as the final resolution of the challenge. FMCSA cannot change State records without State consent.

Challenging Data= DataQ

April 12 – November 30, 2010– Motor carriers were able to preview roadside inspections/violations and crash events by BASIC.

Summer 2010– June 30th – The Operational Model Test (Op-Model Test) ended.– July –July – The Test States partially applying the CSA 2010 Operational Model fully switched to CSA.– August

• The SMS Methodology wasmodified to increase its effectiveness.• Motor carriers were able to see an assessment of their violations based on the new SMS.

December 2010 – The SMS replaced SafeStat and made available to the public.– FMCSA/States began to prioritize enforcement using the SMS.– Roadside Inspectors began to use the SMS results to identify carriers for inspection.– Transitional elements were introduced to enhance the effectiveness of the phased rollout.

2011– In February, FMCSA began issuing warning letters to carriers with BASICs over the interventions threshold– Safety Fitness Determination Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is scheduled to be released.– Enforcement staff will be trained on the CSA enhanced investigation approach; later, new interventions

will be implemented state-by-state.

CSA Rollout Schedule

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CVD Headquarters at 360-596-3800 questions@wsp.wa.govCVEO 3 Larry Pasco at (509) 227-6561Larry.Pasco@wsp.wa.gov