FROM REGULATOR TO GAME MASTER

In issuing its guidance to shippers, brokers and carriers on May 16th, the FMCSA changed its role from a regulator to a game master.  No longer does it determine who is safe to operate on the nation’s roadways under objective criteria as required by statute and regulation.  Instead, it has set up an intricate game of Dancing With The Stars in which it functions as the “expert” assigning points to the remaining contestants.

A Call for Action to Shippers & Brokers

Please click here for a two page summary of advice which was released by the FMCSA on May 16.  This guidance repudiates the effectiveness of the Agency’s ultimate safety fitness determination required by statute.  Without rulemaking it raises SMS methodology to coequal status with the Agency’s fitness finding.  See https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/resources.aspx?locationid=115

Why CSA Is Not Fit For Shippers and Brokers To Use

Please see the attached edited transcription of a December 20, 2011 conference call hosted by Stifel Nicolaus, which featured Tom Sanderson, CEO of Transplace, a leading provider of transportation management services, and Henry Seaton, Esquire, partner in the Seaton & Husk law firm and member of the Association for Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy.

Why CSA is Not Fit for Shippers and Brokers to Use - Conference Call Transcript 1.5.12