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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association said Monday it has filed suit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regarding FMCSA’s pre-employment screening program and appeal process.

In connection with recent requests by American Trucking Associations and others to release the detailed study information used to develop the Compliance, Safety, Accountability scoring system for carriers, I have come across an that should be interesting for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — creator of the CSA program — to explain.

Trucking industry leaders called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Tuesday to make changes to its safety monitoring system, which they said assigns scores that have little correlation to carriers’ crash risks.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it hopes to significantly reduce truck-related crash fatality rates over the next five years by developing new credentialing and driver safety fitness standards, expanding its regulatory reach to include shippers and other industry players, and creating new programs aimed at weeding out high-risk motor carriers.

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Nearly two months after announcing an indefinite delay of a highly anticipated process to assess and assign fault on carriers’ safety records for truck-related crashes, the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the agency has begun to answer critical questions about the issue.

The American Transportation Research Institute is soliciting truck drivers’ opinions on the federal government’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.

Federal regulators have bowed to anti-truck groups and unfairly called into question the integrity of police accident reports by delaying development of a process that could remove unpreventable crashes from carriers’ safety records, American Trucking Associations officials said Tuesday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay its plans to implement a much-anticipated Compliance, Safety, Accountability program process that would have allowed carriers to seek an accountability review of crashes that went on their safety records, a top American Trucking Associations safety executive said.

Most trucking companies believe the federal government’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is an improvement over the SafeStat system it replaced, the American Transportation Research Institute said.

Vigillo LLC said it has released a new product called Carrier Select, which allows freight brokers, shippers and insurance providers to analyze carrier performance.