Patterns of Safety Violations by Motor Carrier Management

NTA • May 10, 2020

I want to remind everyone that the FMCSA amended its regulations to enable the Agency to suspend or revoke the operating authority registration of for-hire motor carriers that show egregious disregard for safety compliance, permit persons who have shown egregious disregard for safety compliance to exercise controlling influence over their operations, or operate multiple entities under common control to conceal noncompliance with safety regulations.

These amendments implement section 4113 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), as amended by section 32112 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), and are designed to enhance the safety of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operations on our nation’s highways.

If you even have just one (1) Alert on your SMS Record, you have already set the “Pattern of Safety Violations” in motion. Don’t be idiotic and think these violations will just melt away into smoke.

If you’re smart, you will treat your SMS Record the same way a doctor treats a cancerous tumor. Analyze the section that is giving you a problem. Isolate the individual(s). Rank the individuals in order of their importance, so you know where to start.

You now have two options; 1) you can either surgically remove the problem by terminating the individual’s contract or by firing the person or 2) by trying to salvage the problem by treating it with radiation treatment, or in this case, the applicable FMCSA CSA Basic Corrective Action Course to retrain or refresh the person.

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