The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is responsible for enforcing the trucking laws and regulations that govern safety among the U.S.’s commercial truck drivers and bus drivers. In order to keep track of safety information, the FMCSA uses a Safety Measurement System (SMS). The SMS tracks several safety-related variables to ensure that drivers and trucking companies are addressing safety issues when they appear.
The SMS measures safety in several different categories, known as Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs). Data on each trucking company’s or owner-operator’s BASICs is fed into the FMCSA’s computer database, which ranks drivers and companies based on how well they’re performing when it comes to safety. Truckers who are involved in a high number of safety violations or accidents are flagged by the system, and the FMCSA focuses on improving safety with these drivers and companies by enforcing safety rules – including [...]
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