Zeroing in

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long awaited effectiveness analysis of FMCSA's Safety Status Measurement System (SafeStat) last month. The GAO analysis found that SafeStat's effectiveness in targeting carriers with high crash rates could be increased about nine basis points by using a statistical regression model rather than the current “expert judgment” approach. Researchers noted that while an increase of nine basis points may seem modest, the regression model identified a group of high-risk carriers that had nearly twice as many future crashes as the group identified by the current method. The study looked at 4,989 high-risk ...

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