The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will be holding two public listening session webinars in December about the Agency’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) initiative.  Previous listening sessions collected public input regarding ways FMCSA could improve its process of monitoring and assessing the safety performance of the commercial motor carrier industry.

The FMCSA will use the upcoming listening session webinars to inform the public on the latest progress of CSA 2010 and answer questions from stakeholders.  The first webinar will be held on Thursday, December 3, 2009 and present CSA 2010 Overview and Operational Model Test Results.  The second webinar will be held on Thursday, December 10, 2009 and present CSA 2010 from a Motor Carrier and Driver Perspective.  

Your participation in these listening session webinars is encouraged.  To register and submit questions for the webinars, please visit http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/listeningSessions/ by November 30, 2009.  Also, written comments regarding CSA 2010 can be filed to the Federal Docket Management System at http://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID Number FMCSA-2004-18898. 

Earlier this month, Delaware became the ninth state to join the CSA 2010 Operational Model (OM) Test!  The OM Test now includes 92,094 motor carriers, and test results are promising. 

• Safety Investigators are conducting 20 percent more investigations per investigator
• Approximately 50 percent of investigations have resulted in a follow-on intervention such as a Cooperative Safety Plan, Notice of Violation or Notice of Claim
• More than 4,000 warning letters have been sent to motor carriers, and about half of those carriers have followed up to learn more about their safety performance.