In late 2016, just a few weeks before the Obama Administration handed the White House keys to the Trump Administration, the FMCSA published far-reaching “entry level driver training” (ELDT) rules designed to raise the training bar (a) for individuals…

In the December 2018 edition of this newsletter, STC highlighted that FMCSA was nearing a decision on its crash preventability demonstration program, slated to end on June 30, 2019. FMCSA was encouraging fleets, at that time, to use the…

FMCSA continues to test small scale IRT models to determine whether IRT is a better scoring and resource prioritization system than the longstanding Safety Measurement System approach, created more than a decade ago for the CSA program. While some…

The “Top 5 Stable Crash Predictors” for truck drivers, according to analysis performed by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) are: A past crash; An improper lane/location conviction; A reckless/careless/inattentive/negligent driving conviction; An improper/erratic lane changes conviction; and, An…

Did you know the Scopelitis Law Firm, and its affiliated Scopelitis Transportation Consulting (STC) subsidiary, has an office in the heart of our nation’s capital and is well-suited to help companies with creative solutions to DC-oriented problems? STC helps…