Federal officials are seeking authority to shut down motor carriers that employ officials who have shown “egregious disregard” for safety regulations.

Motor carrier scores in two of the five public safety categories in the federal government’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program are “defective” in predicting crash risk, according to a new study.

An American Transportation Research Institute study of 471,000 motor carriers’ Compliance, Safety, Accountability data found that CSA percentile scores in two of five categories are “defective” in predicting crash risk.

PORTLAND, Maine — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board urged commercial vehicle inspectors meeting here to look for patterns of motor carrier safety violations that could lead to fatal crashes.

Two prominent groups called on Congress to support the nation’s priority highway safety grant program when it considers federal funding legislation, saying that failure to do so would result in increased highway deaths and injuries.

An analysis of crash data by the American Transportation Research Institute found that trucks equipped with roll stability control systems had fewer rollovers and less crash-related costs than trucks with more expensive electronic stability control systems.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will research how it could assign blame for truck crashes based on a carrier’s fault, and publish the results of its study in summer 2013, the agency said Monday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it ordered Lebanon, Tenn.-based trucking company Three Angels Farms shut down for safety violations.

A truck-related crash accountability system in Canada that has been in place for decades is drawing the attention of U.S. regulators and trucking industry officials.

There’s no denying that finding the best, most accurate way to determine whether a motor carrier should be deemed accountable for a crash is a difficult and complicated task.