The new CAB website will be up and running any day now! We are excited about the changes which are being implemented on the site. If all goes well the new interactive site will be up and running in November. We plan on incorporating industry polls and RSS feeds, as well as providing an open forum to allow readers to share comments with the industry. Comments are appreciated and we look forward to your feedback on items that we can add to the site to better inform the industry of relevant events and to facilitate interaction between companies insuring the transportation industry.

For our premium subscribers, we also note an addition to the Submission Report™ . We now include the ISS-D (Inspection Selection System-Driver) and SEA (Safety Evaluation Scores) scores for your motor carrier. For those of you not familiar with these scoring categorizations, both are promulgated by the FMCSA to evaluate the safety performance of a motor carrier. As a general principle that will occur if the motor carrier has, within the past 24 months, either a poor safety record or has had very few safety inspections relative to the number of vehicles it operates.

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Here we are again. Another fall season is upon us.  Just amazing how time flies.  It never seems like there is enough time to get everything done and it seems like I am always writing one of these articles.  Hope things are going well for you. This month we report:

NAFTA – The Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation has released a report on the status of the FMCSA cross-border operations. While recognizing the inroads which have been made by the FMCSA, the report indicates that there remain inconsistencies in reporting traffic convictions of Mexican drivers, and there are still questions about Mexican drivers holding multiple licenses in order to avoid the impact of an offense which would otherwise disqualify them from operating in the U.S.  A full copy of the report can be viewed here.

In other NAFTA news, the BTS reports that inter-country trade was down 31.5%. Surface transportation, or freight movements by truck, rail and pipeline, accounts for about 88 percent of U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico. The value of imported trucked goods from Canada was 34.8 percent lower, with the value of exported goods dropping 28.8 percent. In trade with Mexico the value of the imported goods dropped 18 percent and exported goods dropped 14.3 percent. Read More