Fighting back against CSA

I was just going to post about CSA, I dont understand the whole thing? I guess im not up on all the big words they use in the articles on the sites ive been to about CSA. I just read about it on land line. How does CSA affect me?

this site is honestly starting to depress me. I havnt driven full time since 2008, and i really want to go back trucking. but dang. from what i read here on truckers report its hell out there.

 

I say you're more paranoid than I am. that can't be good.

 

The "Patriot Act" is currently taking the place of our Constitution. That's why campaigns like CSA 2010 are thriving, Uncle Slam is trying to corral and control threats to "our safety". (That threat is US, according to Uncle Slam).

The original Constitution and Bill of Rights are currently in a state of indefinite suspension.

Welcome to Amerika Comrade. Assume the position".

 

I just go with the flow.

I've been a dish washer, janitor, auto salesman, security officer, silk screener, machinist, bartender, waiter, delivery driver, auto mechanic, computer tech...
and now a truck driver.

Funny, but out of all those, a single small mistake can end the entire career of just one of those.

Mainly because of the insurance companies and CSA.

Then, again, we do have at out command an 80,000 pound big rig as our toy and plaything.

Think our profession is over-regulated? Sometimes, so do I.

I am still new at this, being at this job/lifestyle less than a year. I am still nervous in backing and heavy traffic situations.
I still realize that one little mistake, be it being a foot too far to the right or just a little too fast in a corner, can cost not only my life - but the lives of several other people as well.

Seeing how some truck drivers drive, I think they have lost something.
They have lost the respect for the machine that they command. They have lost that feeling of not being in complete control.
Personally, I hope I never lose that. I never want to be so secure in driving a big rig.

Because, face it, we are never in complete control of our environment and of the machine we 'command'.
All it takes is as simple a thing as a tire failure - which many/most of us have experienced.

I see truckers less than a car length from the bumper of the car they are following, trying to 'push' them out of the way.
Always trying to get that extra mile per hour, they put so many lives at risk.

All it would take is a blowout, or an animal running out, or just a sudden slowdown of traffic for an accident to occur. And I seem to read about those kinds of accidents on a regular basis.


CSA was brought about for a reason.
That reason is probably all the prima donna super truckers that think they own the road.

Thank them! And, blame them!

 

CSA is not unconstitutiona, it is simply recording data.

The patriot act is but for another discussion.

The only result of aquiring points in the SMS is a compliance review where you will face your accuser, have an avenue for appeal, and if you are a big enough screw up a jury of your peers.

Notice I said SMS. If you are not a carrier sadly CSA has little effect on you. Oh yes they will record your failures for future employers to see but no other action yet. Hopefully that changes to remove those incapable of doing their job. About 25% of current CDL holders need removed in my opinion. And we need real training and testing standards for CDLs and four wheelers. Let's be honest they issue licenses like toilet paper and in general do nothing to remove them until a driver really screws up.


So yeah CYA, but you should have been all along.

 

I believe OOIDA are fighting it.

 

Nothing to fight. And they are to busy keeping career politicians in DC to worry about your problems driver

 

Ive been given little tickets and i was totally in the right. A 40 dollar mudflap ticket in Colorado. I had a mudflap last time i stopped I knew it was there because i went back and cleaned off my lights, but they fined me anyway..