(1) Assess the data upon which the company will be judged by FMCSA

(2) Calculate the score they are likely to receive based on that data

(3) Run reports that will help them manage their CSA 2010 and safety risks and

(4) See and take action on the specific areas (AND DRIVERS) that need work to improve their safety score.

The Vigillo CSA 2010 Scorecard has a driver component that allows the trucking company to see a driver’s safety record, including violations, warnings and crashes, thus allowing them to take “appropriate actions.”

This scorecard is provided to trucking companies at a month to month subscription fee. Trucking companies will pay for this service, much like the ‘ole DAC REPORT.

More abuse against drivers in the making? 32 years of experience tells me “yes.”

http://www.atabusinesssolutions.com/t-csa2010scorecard.aspx

Allen

I hope your article is not the only one being written. The CSA 2010 seems to be yet another well intentioned cause of unintended outcomes. We continue to repeat out mistakes. Follow the money!

Johnny

Officers are trained to spot various signs of fatigue such as poorly kept log books, an unwashed vehicle, yawning, red eyes and so forth. Actually confirming a driver is over tired, I agree, can be a bit of a stretch.

At times, DOT will set up certain days and time for periodic inspections, even advising trucking companies and the general public as to when such inspections will be scheduled. Other than that, inspections are done on a random basis. It’s hard to put a number on it, but overall, I believe inspections are not done on a hard core basis …. in over thirty years of driving, I can count on one hand the times I have received inspections.

Pushing drivers by dispatch is a very common problem and is done so on a daily and regular basis. It comes with the long haul trucking life style.

The purpose of the apnea testing is that studies have shown sleep apnea to be a very serious health problem. Drivers have been killed while suffering from this condition, thus the reason for the pre-screen apnea testing – often people do not even realize they have sleep apnea – therefore, testing and catching it before they hit the road driving, is their way of stepping up safety procedures for professional truckers, as well as for the general public.

I’ve got a couple of questions:

About these road-side inspections: is that when a truck gets pulled over by highway patrol? How in the world is the DOT going to know if a driver in the middle of Nebraska is tired?

How often, say how many times a year, does a driver get inspected by a dot authority?

About those dispatchers: how often do they push drivers to violate sleep regs to deliver a “hot” load? Is that pretty common?

For the medical checkups, why do they care if a driver has apnea? That seems to make no sense. If you’re driving asleep you’ve got bigger problems than apnea.

Thanks for the help!!!

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I believe the D.O.T. U.S.A. and Canada are trying to find a way to monitor and police an industry which is too large for them to do efficiently with enforcement. Since they can’t stand over the shoulders of dispatchers, safety and compliance officers and maintenance departments they are targeting the diver sector with the fear of road side inspection scoring.

I believe the FMCSA’s intention is to get drivers to take a stand and enforce their own compliance needs in hopes that the trucking companies will wake up and adjust their operations to comply with regulations.

It appears to me that with the loss of truckers through tougher qualifying criteria is setting a pre-requisite standard for the commercial driver. Soon new drivers will have a higher entrance standard and existing drivers will have a higher standard of job quality to maintain their driving status. It will be a rough and confusing road ahead. We will likely lose many good drivers and truly have a driver shortage.

Unfortunately we can’t stop the progress and only do our best to adapt to it. Hopefully without being knocked out of commission from it. If it is like the other new regulations it will take a few years for it to be fully implemented.

Good luck!

“Within each peer group, a percentile is computed on a 0 –100 scale for each entity that receives a non-zero measure, with 100 indicating the worst performance.”

“Entities with percentiles above a certain threshold and meeting minimum data sufficiency requirements can be deemed poor safety performers. These entities will be identified for CSA 2010’s Intervention process.”

I’ll keep looking, but seems the actual number has not been determined yet. You can read more on the 97 page SMS Methodology Version:

http://tinyurl.com/yhasznl

Allen