House Panel Seeks CSA Inquiry

A House transportation subcommittee has asked the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General to do an in-depth audit of the government’s safety program, including a look at the relationship between motor carrier safety scores and crash risk.

The audit request, made by the chairman and ranking member of the House Transportation Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, requested that the Inspector General specifically answer 11 questions related to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.

The audit was a follow-up to a CSA hearing last month held by the subcommittee.

“Witnesses at the Sept. 13 hearing raised concerns that a lack of adequate safety data, inappropriate weighting of violations, and other scoring problems are causing CSA to erroneously label carrier safety performance,” the audit request said.