What does this mean?

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Gunner75, Aug 21, 2016.

  1. Gunner75

    Gunner75 Road Train Member

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    A local flatbed company found my resume on indeed.com and contacted me tonight to set up a time to have a phone interview tomorrow. After doing some searching on the interwebs on their safety ratings and such. They have 16 trucks, with a 20.2% oos rating on the trucks, and a 4.8% oos rating on the drivers, as of March 3, 2016 they had a compliance review, and as of May 2, 2016 they have a "conditional" safety rating.

    What does "conditional" mean. Should i steer clear?
     
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  3. NavigatorWife

    NavigatorWife Road Train Member

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    They will most likely have their trucks pulled to go over scale between A to B, no prepass for them I bet.

    If you could look at their trucks, that would be a good esitmate perhaps to how well they do the maintenance on them.
     
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  4. Riprap

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    Conditional safety rating means a motor carrier does not have adequate safety management controls in place to ensure compliance with the safety fitness standard that could result in occurrences listed in § 385.5 (a) through (k).
    Basically it means their office and shop is sloppy, has no policy, or doesn't put a lot of effort into dot compliance.
    Or it could mean during the audit they were about to have an unsatisfactory rating but the auditor gave them a second chance if they keep their nose clean- example- a probation deal, if company gets one more oos in the next year, then they will get another audit with a heavy fine.
     
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  5. Gunner75

    Gunner75 Road Train Member

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    Spoke with the owner this morning. His explanation was because when he first started up his insurance company wasn't a Trucking insurance company and they just allowed him to hire anyone, so he primarily hired new guys right out off school. I Feb of this year he had his first audit and csa hammered him because most of his guys at the time would just make out a log, or not files one out at all. So csa managed that they add elogs to his trucks at a rate of 2 a month and then reevaluate in 6 months. Now he has a Trucking insurance company that requires 2 yrs exp, and he has a guy who audits his logs weekly. Only has 15 trucks.
     
  6. Studebaker Hawk

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    So the owner is blaming his " new drivers" for him and his company for not being in compliance? He has that backwards my friend. He is making excuses for his incompetence or inexperience.
    Either way, do you want to lose money while this guy learns how to run a trucking company?
     
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  7. SLCTrucker

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    I really don't believe that, first off I know of no insurance company that does not check out drivers before insuring them, that's just plain stupid on their part if they did.
     
  8. Balakov100

    Balakov100 Road Train Member

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    What about the 20% OOS on the trucks. That's pretty high for 16 trucks.
     
  9. SLCTrucker

    SLCTrucker Medium Load Member

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    Its saying that maintenance is pretty poor.........
     
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