Compliance Blog Category: Safety Improvement

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Operation Safe Driver 2020

What is Operation Safe Driver and its Purpose? The CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver program was created in 2007 to help reduce the number of crashes, deaths, and injuries involving large

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Crash Preventability Program Expanded

The FMCSA’s Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP) Expands After a decade of trucking companies citing that the government unfairly counted crashes against their safety record that were not their fault,

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What is the CSA Program?

Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) What is the CSA Program and its Purpose? The Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program is run by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).  It is

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Increase in Drug Testing Rate

Ten Things to Know Regarding the Increase in Random Drug Testing Rate for 2020 The FMCSA Administrator will increase the minimum annual percentage rate for random controlled substances to 50

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Important MVR Information

What Is an MVR? Full name is a Motor Vehicle Report. Also known as a Driver’s License Verification, or a Driver’s License Background Check. The MVR checks the driving record of

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What is Brake Safety Week 2019?

The CVSA’s Brake Safety Week is part of CVSA’s Operation Airbrake Program in partnership with FMCSA and the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators.  The goal of Brake Safety Week

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What is the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse?

Why was the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Created? In 2012, Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish a national Clearinghouse containing CMV operators’ violations of FMCSA’s drug and alcohol

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