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DISCUSSION On the basis of survey results and supporting interviews, there appears to be consensus that alternative inspection technologies are necessary and the desired trend for future enforcement activities. State personnel perceive these alternative technologies as a key strategy to "do more with less" as they are confronted with rapid growth in commercial vehicle traffic and stagnant or declining enforcement resources.
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are not widely known and/or understood by the industry; • The current inspection selection aids may not identify the correct vehicles for targeted enforcement; • Quality issues (e.g., associating a crash with the wrong motor carrier) in the data used by FMCSA to calculate the screening algorithms undermines the accuracy of the screening decisions; • The lack of "at fault" determinations for the crash data used in the calculation of screening algorithms is unfair and may result in a carrier being targeted for enforcement actions based on incidents that were beyond its controls (e.g., having its vehicles rear-ended by another vehicle)
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