On Wednesday, July 11, 2012, at 1:00 P.M., the Committee on Small Business conducted a hearing titled, Is FMCSA’s CSA Program Driving Small Businesses Off the Road? The hearing was held in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The purpose of the hearing was to examine the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program and its effects on small businesses. The CSA is the federal government’s primary tool to regulate commercial motor vehicle safety. Since the initial implementation of the program in 2010, a number of small businesses in the highway commercial freight industry have identified a variety of issues that they believe call into question the overall accuracy of the program and create disparate effects on small businesses.

 

Opening Statement:

Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO)

Witnesses and Testimony:

Panel 1

Bill Bronrott, Deputy Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Washington, DC

• Testimony 

Panel 2

Daniel A. Miranda, CEO, Hit Em Hard Transportation, Elverta, CA

• Testifying on behalf of Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
• Testimony 
• Witness Disclosure

Dr. Michael Belzer, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 

• Testimony 
• Witness Disclosure

Anthony Gallo, Senior Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Baltimore, MD

• Testimony 
• Witness Disclosure

Jeff Tucker, CEO, Tucker Company Worldwide, Cherry Hill, NJ

• Testimony 
• Witness Disclosure

 

Additional Items:

Official Witness List

Official Hearing Notice

Official Hearing Memo

Hearing Video

Press Release