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February 2014
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Lack of Data Undermines CSA Program, GAO Says
Feb. 4, 2014, Avery Vise
Reprinted from fleetowner.com
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration’s Safety Measurement
System doesn’t capture enough safetyrelated data on carriers to establish a
link between carriers’ SMS scores and
their crash risk or to reliably compare
carriers to one another, the Government
Accountability Office concluded in
a report released Feb. 3. In its longawaited review of the Compliance,
Safety, Accountability program, GAO said
that even as an internal agency tool for
targeting SMS, the program lacked the
precision to be as effective as it should
be, and it questioned both the way
FMCSA presents SMS data to the public
and FMCSA’s plan to use SMS scores to
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are inspected infrequently, providing
insufficient information to produce
reliable SMS scores,” GAO found in the
report, which was ordered by Congress
in a recent appropriations act. “FMCSA
acknowledges that violation rates
are less precise for carriers with little
information, but its methods do not fully
address this limitation.”
Even though FMCSA requires a
minimum level of information to generate
an SMS score, that minimum still
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For SMS to be a more effective
enforcement tool, GAO said FMCSA
should score only carriers with more
information than those scored today,
allowing it to better identify high-risk
carriers likely to be involved in crashes.
To test the impact of this idea,
instead of the few inspections
now required to qualify for SMS
scoring, GAO considered an
alternative that eliminated the
use of safety event groups and
set at least 20 inspections or 20
vehicles, depending on the CSA
BASIC, as the minimum threshold
for a CSA score.
Using this approach, GAO said
that 67.1% of high-risk carriers
would have had a crash during
the period it reviewed as opposed
to 39% under FMCSA’s current
approach. “This illustrative approach
involves trade-offs; it would assign SMS
scores to fewer carriers, but these scores
would generally be more reliable and
thus more useful in targeting FMCSA’s
scarce resources.”
Carrier fitness and public awareness
If SMS isn’t precise enough to be used
as an effective internal tool, GAO raised
further questions about using them for
safety fitness determinations as FMCSA
currently plans. It said that “basing a
carrier’s safety fitness determination
on limited performance data may
misrepresent the safety status of carriers,
particularly those without sufficient
data from which to reliably draw such a
conclusion.”
GAO also questioned how FMCSA
presented SMS data on individual
carriers, although it stopped short of
suggesting that the agency pull the
data altogether. The watchdog agency
noted a contradiction between FMCSA’s
official disclaimer about SMS scores
being intended for agency and law
enforcement purposes and the agency’s
own statement that SMS provides
stakeholders with valuable information to
make safety-based business decisions.
FMCSA itself has released a mobile
phone application – SaferBus – to
provide safety information, including
SMS scores, to consumers selecting a
bus company, GAO noted. Meanwhile,
the Dept. of Defense has written SMS
scores into its minimum safety criteria
for selecting carriers of hazardous
munitions, and multiple stakeholders
have reported that entities such as
insurers, freight shippers and brokers,
and others use SMS scores. “Given such
uses, it is important that any information
about SMS scores make clear to users,
including FMCSA, the purpose of the
scores, their precision, and the context
around how they are calculated.”
Industry reaction
Given that criticism of CSA and SMS
has grown over the past three years, it’s
not surprising that the trucking industry
welcomed the GAO report.
“The GAO’s review of FMCSA’s
Compliance, Safety, Accountability
program was comprehensive, thoughtful
and balanced,” said Bill Graves,
president of the American Trucking
Assns. “While ATA has long supported
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CSA’s objectives, we can’t help but agree
with GAO’s findings that the scores
produced by the program don’t present
an accurate or precise assessment of the
safety of many carriers.”
“Given GAO’s findings, FMCSA should
remove all carriers’ scores from public
view,” said Dave Osiecki, ATA executive
vice president and chief of national
advocacy. “Since scores are so often
unreliable, third parties are prone to
making erroneous judgments based
on inaccurate data, an inequity that
can only be solved in the near term by
removing the scores from public view.”
Osiecki also said that that “it would clearly
be improper” for FMCSA to proceed
with the rulemaking on carrier fitness
determinations based on the data until
FMCSA corrects problems that GAO
identified.
The Alliance for Safe, Efficient, and
Competitive Truck Transportation
(ASECTT) – a group that has challenged
FMCSA in court over CSA and SMS –
said that “the GAO’s own words are a
powerful endorsement of many of the
arguments [we have] been making for
years.” Several years ago, ASECTT’s
legal challenges resulted in changes
in how FMCSA presents SMS data on
its website, and the coalition is still in
litigation with FMCSA over SMS and
CSA. GAO confirmed SMS’s bias against
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smaller carriers, ASECTT said.
ASECTT said it agrees with GAO’s
recommendation against using SMS as
it is today for determining carrier fitness,
but the group “continues to also believe
that until the system has been fully
validated for individual carriers, SMS data
should not be presented to the shipping
public. The FMCSA should live up to its
federal duty to determine which carriers
are safe to operate on the highways and
shut down the unsafe operators.”
Meanwhile, FMCSA tried to put GAO’s
findings in perspective, saying that it
uses a “strategic, data-driven approach”
to identifying and prioritizing high-risk
carriers.
“While we are always looking for ways to
improve our safety oversight methods,
and will carefully consider the GAO’s
latest recommendations, research shows
that CSA is already more effective at
identifying motor carriers with a greater
risk of crashing than the system we
replaced in 2010,” FMCSA said. The
agency added that under the Obama
Administration it has tripled the number
of unsafe bus and truck companies taken
off the road.
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3 Great Books on the Art of Selling
BY ILAN MOCHARI
reprinted from inc.com
Sales and leadership guru Daniel Pink
recently recommended six of his all-time
favorite books on the art of selling. Here’s a
brief look at his top three picks:
1. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas
Survive and Others Die (2007) by Chip
Heath and Dan Heath. For an idea to
survive, argue the brothers Heath, it must
elicit a “yes” answer to each of the following
six questions:
Is it simple? Is it unexpected? Is it concrete
(tangible, of this world, and not abstract)?
Is it (or is its inventor) credible? Does it tap
emotions? And is there a story you can tell
around it?
An example of an idea that fulfilled all six
criteria was President John F. Kennedy’s
1961 call to put a man on the moon.
Kennedy articulated it smoothly too. The
goal was to “put a man on the moon and
return him safely by the end of the decade.”
Note how basic this description is. It’s one
sentence, with a who, what, where, and
when. There was no need, in 1961, for a
why.
Had JFK been a CEO, joke the Heath
brothers, he would’ve explained it like this:
“Our mission is to become the international
leader in the space industry through
maximum team-centered innovation and
strategically targeted aerospace initiatives.”
2. How To Win Friends And Influence
People (1936) by Dale Carnegie. Don’t let
the prewar date fool you. Carnegie’s advice
remains especially relevant for our day
and age. Social networks make it easier
to “follow” friends and stay in touch, but
getting through to someone’s heart is still
what matters.
And in many ways, Carnegie was ahead
of his time. For example, he preached the
importance of customer empathy, long
before it became fashionable. He tells
the story of a Philadelphia fuel salesman
named C.M. Knaphle who hated the
advent of chain stores. Why did Knaphle
hate chain stores? Mainly because a chain
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to debate other students in Carnegie’s
courses about whether chain stores were
good or bad. The catch? Knaphle had to
defend the chain stores. To prepare for the
debate, Knaphle went back to the store
that wasn’t buying his fuel. He asked the
buyer for advice that could help him make
the case that chain stores were a good
thing. “I must confess that he opened my
eyes to things I had never even dreamed
of,” wrote Knaphle.
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3. Influence: Science and Practice
(1984) by Robert Cialdini. “Anybody writing
about persuasion and influence today
stands on Cialdini’s shoulders,” gushes
Pink. “If you’ve got time for only one book,
this is it.” High praise, and here’s one
reason why: Cialdini mixes academic rigor
with real-world experiments.
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For nearly three years, he writes, he
enhanced his academic research by
“systematically” immersing himself in
the world of “compliance professionals-salespeople, fundraisers, advertisers,
others.” In other words, Cialdini studied
how sales pros of all stripes practice
persuasion.
His “most instructive” takeaway was that
persuasion tactics typically fall into one of
six categories, each of which is “governed
by a fundamental psychological principle
that directs human behavior and, in so
doing, gives the tactics their power.”
Those six principles are reciprocation,
consistency, social proof, liking, authority,
and scarcity.
On the heels of Facebook’s tenth birthday,
it’s worth noting the presence of “social
proof” and “liking” on Cialdini’s list, all those
years before The Social Network was born.
Cialdini’s book will remind you that, long
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In Remembrance
JOHN F. NORRIS passed away on January 13, 2014. John was a member of Holy Name Catholic Church in
Beech Grove. He was a veteran of World War II serving as a nose gunner on a B24 in the European Theater.
John was a life member of The Indianapolis Traffic Club.
Our sympathies go out to his wife Betty Norris; his children, Phillip Norris, Clare Welden, and Nancy Moore.
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