The safety records of Trinity – along with three of the other cross-border program participants from Mexico – were called into question by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association in the Association’s lawsuit challenging the cross-border program.
Dec. 3, 2007, the Association filed a brief in its challenge of the cross-border program with the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco.
In the brief, Rick Craig, OOIDA’s director of regulatory affairs dissected data from FMCSA’s own SafeStat database collected and analyzed by OOIDA staff and a paralegal at The Cullen Law Firm, OOIDA’s legal counsel.
“Trinity was cited for 1,123 safety violations in the 12-month time period I reviewed,” Craig testified in the brief. “That is an average of 112 safety violations per vehicle registered with the FMCSA by Trinity.”
