The federal government’s new program for measuring the safety performance of truck and bus companies—the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) initiative—is having a significant impact on the commercial laundry business.
 
The CSA is the most significant change in decades in the way the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the states oversee transportation safety, and it applies not only to trucking companies, but to any organization that operates trucks in its business, such as textile services companies. These regulations under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) apply to commercial vehicles that engage in interstate commerce, carry hazardous ...