The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) will now operate the North American Fatigue Management Program, a multipronged approach toward reducing the incidence of fatigue behind the wheel.
The program, known as NAFMP, was awarded to CVSA to manage after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a “sole source contract” to CVSA, according to Rodolfo Giacoman. He is the Fatigue Management Program specialist at CVSA and responded to a series of questions sent to him by FreightWaves.
CVSA’s activities will be supervised by the NAFMP steering committee, Giacoman said. That committee consists of representatives from such groups as FMCSA, Transport Canada and the American Transportation Research Institute, which is an arm of the American Trucking Associations. “The goal is to leverage CVSA’s events and channels of communication for increasing the NAFMP usage and solicit user feedback to improve it,” Giacoman said of one of the key reasons why CVSA was chosen to operate the program.
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The program, known as NAFMP, was awarded to CVSA to manage after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a “sole source contract” to CVSA, according to Rodolfo Giacoman. He is the Fatigue Management Program specialist at CVSA and responded to a series of questions sent to him by FreightWaves.
CVSA’s activities will be supervised by the NAFMP steering committee, Giacoman said. That committee consists of representatives from such groups as FMCSA, Transport Canada and the American Transportation Research Institute, which is an arm of the American Trucking Associations. “The goal is to leverage CVSA’s events and channels of communication for increasing the NAFMP usage and solicit user feedback to improve it,” Giacoman said of one of the key reasons why CVSA was chosen to operate the program.
CVSA gets contract to run FMCSA’s fatigue management program
The international agency will use its platform to conduct outreach while training the industry on how to combat fatigue.
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