FMCSA indefinitely removes SAFESTAT SEA scores from public access

I am pretty sure that its been that way for quite awhile.

 

If it's unreliable, they should not use it at all. Hiding it from public view is just suspicious. It reminds me of what they used to do with credit scores before the government forced them to let us see it.

 

California Man Gets 70-Months in Prison, Pays Restitution of $2.9 Million, and Forfeits $1.4 Million for Defrauding Trucking Companies


Date:June 29, 2009

Type:Investigation

Summary:On June 29, Nicholas Lakes, aka Dimitry Livshits, a Russian citizen of Glendale, California, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for computer fraud, mail fraud, and aiding and abetting following a guilty plea. Mr. Lakes pled guilty to superseding information in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Lakes and his business partner, Viacheslav Berkovich of Los Angeles, CA, were involved in a scheme to defraud trucking companies. In June 2008, OIG began the investigation based on numerous complaints from other trucking companies. In their scheme, Mr. Lakes and Mr. Berkovich fraudulently established a trucking company and a broker company by illegally gaining access to the Safety and Fitness Electronic Records System or (SAFER) System, which is maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Mr. Lakes and Mr. Berkovich accessed these websites to register and use fictitious brokerages to offer trucking loads and collect payment from the original brokers. This allowed them to "double broker" the trucking jobs to legitimate trucking companies that were never paid for their actual deliveries. Mr. Lakes and Mr. Berkovich then tricked legitimate brokers into paying them by attesting that their fraudulent companies actually transported loads. On October 28, 2008, an indictment charged both with computer fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Mr. Berkovich subsequently pled guilty on February 23, 2009, and will be sentenced later this year. Mr. Lakes was ordered to pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $2,897,629. Mr. Lakes will also forfeit a TD Ameritrade account containing $1,455,697.


http://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2509.

Maybe this is part of it.

 

The Safestat accident SEA value has been offline for quite some time now. Main reason- Individual states can't get their s*it together, which results in inaccurate data being reported. ISS-D recommendation values and individual crash event data is still available.

dieselbear, I don't see the connection...?

 

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You should tell this to some of our Shippers.

It would seem there is some rather underhanded tactics being used by company salesmen to gain access to freight. By producing SafeStat scores to shippers, and comparing it to their own.

We've ran into this recently. Even though we currently have good numbers. Those that were presented to the customer, were waaaay off the scale.

 

I guess that's what I get for half a z z reading your earlier post. I had just read about the USDOT-OIG case with SAFER. Sorry for confusing anyone.

 

JUST ANOTHER CASE OF THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT US, AND ( we dont have the need to know. )