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FMCSA Decides to Heed Advice of CSA Panel, Baffling Some Truckers

A decision by federal trucking regulators to adopt sweeping recommendations of an elite academic panels study assessing the way truckers are safety-rated has been mostly well received by the industry; yet some truckers admit they are a bit baffled by the complex item response theory, or IRT, approach to revamp the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.

July 6, 2017