New ICSA Member Requirements Will Reduce Safety Risk

Revised Terms & Conditions Take Effect July 1

Last week members received an important email from ICSA’s Executive Director Karen Rasmussen announcing forthcoming changes to the Membership Terms & Conditions. If you haven’t taken the time to read the email all the way through, we urge you to do so and to contact us with any questions. The majority of the changes are effective for all new members who join after July 1, 2023, but two key requirements apply to all current and future ICSA members, as follows:

• Members will be required to assign each of their event recorders to the specific driver operating each power unit and to notify ICSA of these assignments.
• Members will authorize ICSA access to their telematics data. To simplify this new requirement, ICSA is contracting with a third party to collect and analyze ELD data and will implement a small monthly telematics fee to cover these costs. For current members, this requirement will take effect at the time their insurance renews.

Click here to download a copy of the new Membership Terms & Conditions.

The principal reason for these two requirements is two-fold: 1) to collect mileage exposure by state so that insurers can more accurately determine a carrier’s risk and provide sufficient coverage; and 2) validate drivers to ensure they are being covered in the insured’s policy. In no cases will ICSA share a carrier’s or driver’s private data with any enforcement entity. Rather, these requirements will ensure underwriters have sufficient information to keep everyone’s insurance costs as low as possible.

You will also note that all ICSA members who join after July 1, 2023 must electronically limit their power unit speeds to no more than 68 mph. This requirement is intended to reduce the excess speeds as well as speeds unsafe for conditions that are the principal cause of crashes being experienced by ICSA members. ICSA is not mandating speed limiting for current members, but we encourage you to voluntarily adopt this critical safety countermeasure in anticipation of a mandate by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which we anticipate seeing by the end of 2023.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions about the new Terms & Conditions. Send an email to contact@safecarriers.org, provide a number where you can be reached and someone will call you as soon as time permits. ICSA appreciates every member’s attention to compliance and their role in reducing truck-involved crashes.