Our seven-week coverage of the CSA 2010 BASICs wraps up today with Crash Indicator, which the FMCSA defines as: “Histories or patterns of high crash involvement, including frequency and severity, based on information from state-reported crash reports.”

The CSA 2010 regulations continue to change as the rollout deadline approaches on November 30, and transportation professionals who aren’t on top of the updates could suffer.

There are 7 Steps to managing your cash flow. In this post and the next, I’ll cover the details; I’ll explain the first three here.

One: Your accounts receivable and your Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) figure:

Any experienced transportation professional can easily discuss their frustrations with our country’s frequent highway congestion. Long hours stuck in traffic are not uncommon experiences while on the road.

Recognizing this common problem, in 2009, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) and the Federal government conducted their “2009 Bottleneck Analysis of 100 Freight Significant Highways Locations” study. To gather data, the team used GPS-based technology to study chokepoints in 100 U.S. cities, where freight deliveries were slowed by heavy traffic.

Like last week’s Vehicle Maintenance post, we continue our CSA 2010 coverage with Cargo-Related, another BASIC that focuses more on how safely companies are trucking freight than on drivers’ actual behavior and health. The FMCSA defines the Cargo-Related BASIC as “Failure to properly prevent shifting loads, spilled or dropped cargo, overloading, and unsafe handling of hazardous materials on a CMV.”