The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration releases its proposed hours-of-service rulemaking.  Click here to view.

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Access to CSA data is now available to the public, following a battle in the federal courts led by several groups representing small trucking companies.  Over the weekend, the Federal Motor Carrier Administration (FMCSA) proceeded with its plan to expand access to CSA data beyond carriers themselves. 

CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) was formerly Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010, but the name changed with the official rollout of the program. 

One of the major changes under CSA is a new safety measurement system that replaces SafeStat.  Motor Carrier Measurement System (SMS) data is available at http://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov.  Individual carriers’ CSA scores are available at http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Data/Search.aspx.  Visitors to the site can search for a carrier by name and state or enter a carrier’s DOT or MC number. 

To learn more about CSA, visit http://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov.  To learn more about RAIR’s solution for helping carrier improve their CSA scores, click here or contact RAIR at info@rair.com or 888-444-7010.

Education, data management, scoring, analysis and prevention

Log auditing, GPS verification, EOBR integration, accuracy checks

Driver qualification file auditing and management, drug and alcohol testing

DVIRs, maintenance records, registration, permits

Qualcomm and RAIR have announced their collaboration to enhance the value of Qualcomm Hours of Service (HOS) by offering more robust auditing and analysis of HOS data, which can be captured electronically or on paper.  The combination of Qualcomm’s HOS and RAIR’s service provides customers the most complete and easy-to-use solution for managing and auditing driver logs.

The RAIR solution is ideal for fleets using both electronic and paper logs as it can compare electronic positioning data provided by Qualcomm to data provided by drivers in their paper logs, thus adding an additional degree of accuracy to hours of service reporting. RAIR also can process DVIR information and support driver notification for violations.

“Our collaboration with RAIR, a leader in managing HOS compliance with paper or EOBR-generated logs, delivers enhanced value and options to our Hours of Service customers,” said Norm Ellis, vice president of sales, services and marketing for Qualcomm Enterprise Services.  “With safety and compliance top of mind for fleets of all sizes, this innovative solution helps assure visibility to accurate and complete information regarding driver hours of service.”

“RAIR is delighted to have been chosen by Qualcomm to provide our best-in-class log auditing services to complement Qualcomm’s Hours of Service,” stated JJ Singh, president and CEO of RAIR.  “Our ability to work with and comprehensively audit paper logs, as well as logs generated by EOBRs, or any combination of the two, provides flexibility to carriers that helps make a seamless transition from paper logs to e-logs when they install EOBRs.” 

Click here to view the press release announcing this collaboration.

RAIR congratulates Dean Newell, CDS, of Maverick Transportation (North Little Rock, AR) on being named the National Safety Director of the Year by the American Trucking Association (ATA).  The award was given at the ATA’s Safety & Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition in Rogers, AR last week.  This marks the 50th year of the National Safety Director Award, which is given in recognition of the outstanding achievements of a motor carrier safety executive.

RAIR is committed to improving the safety of our nation’s highways, one carrier at a time.  We are honored to be Maverick’s partner in this effort.  Congratulations on this well deserved honor.

RAIR, a leading provider of safety and compliance services to the trucking industry, announced today the launch of its drug and alcohol testing program.   The new program offers a complete range of drug testing services including collection, testing, reporting, and Medical Review Officer (MRO) duties.  Mary K. Tappa, RAIR’s Executive Vice President of Operations, has more than 20 years of experience in administering drug testing programs and will oversee the new service.     

“Our goal is to offer a complete menu of services aimed at reducing carriers’ exposure to the risks of non-compliance with federal safety regulations,” said JJ Singh, president and CEO of RAIR.  “Drug testing is a natural fit.”  RAIR’s drug-testing business will be web-based like the company’s existing services of driver log auditing, CSA 2010 compliance, driver management and vehicle management.

“This takes us back to our roots,” said Henry M. Goldberg, MD, founder and chairman of RAIR.  While this is a new service for RAIR, the company was borne out of the drug testing industry:  Goldberg was formerly president of Substance Abuse Management Inc. (SAMI), a third-party administrator of drug testing services that served many of the country’s largest trucking companies, prior to founding RAIR.  “Now these same trucking companies have asked us to get back into the drug testing business,” said Goldberg.  

This is a timely introduction as the DOT’s new drug testing rule goes into effect on October 1, 2010.  The new rule changes the training of and procedures used by Medical Review Officers.