When the FAST Act was signed into law, it locked down funding for our nation’s roads for another 5 years, but it also answered the prayers of many carriers large and small – it removed CSA scores from public view.
Apparently the FMCSA saw the writing on the wall because almost immediately after the bill was signed, the CSA scores disappeared. On the FMCSA website where CSA scores used to be available, there is now nothing to be found. Similarly the FMCSA’s QCMobile app which was designed to make it easier to check carrier CSA scores from smart devices no longer shows them. It’s almost as if the CSA scores have ceased to exist.
According to many in the industry, that’s a very good thing. The response was an almost universal sigh of relief since the safety scoring system has been attacked by everyone from the ATA to OOIDA to even members of Congress.
In addition to removing the scores from public view, Congress mandated that the FMCSA perform a review and even do a complete overhaul of the system if it should be necessary. The scores will remain hidden until Congress approves the new program which also must include a crash accountability component.
“By ordering an evaluation and improvement of CSA, as well as removing the flawed scores the system produces from public view in the meantime, this bill is an important victory for data and accuracy in regulatory oversight,” said ATA Executive Vice President Dave Osiecki.
Source: fmcsa, truckinginfo, thetruckersreport, fleetowner
Is there any final rule about the insulin dependant truck drivers who are under the current diabetis exemption. FMCSA suggested that it be up to the DOT doctor if individuals receive a clearance to drive commercial vehicles on interstates or must they continue with the quartly check up proceedure?
They should do away with them all together. If you wanna make a “judging system” on drivers and companies make it reasonable. My accident where a drunk driver side swiped my rig, counts the same as if I was to get into a fatal accident because I was distracted. Their not even remotely the same thing but some companies won’t even look at you because CSA just shows you have an accident and they don’t look into the details of the accident.
I was told by an old trucker to always keep records of any accidents that I’ve been, fault or no fault. File them away safe at home.
absolutely…so you can show…what truly happened….
Amen. A driver rear ended my husband and he wasn’t at fault yet it counted the same as if he was.
I had a driver last winter spin out on black ice and hit me. It scores against me and is reported on my PSP as if I caused the accident.
I estimate 99;9 percent of drivers have said the same words.
So the CSA scores are “gone”? No, they are just “hidden”.
Is this for just carriers or drivers too.
Agree that it should all go away. The trailer I was pulling on 6/4/15 was placed OOS on a level 1 inspection because the self adjusting mechanism on the combination’s 5th axle was inoperative and the brakes were 1/4 inch out of adjustment past the limit. Totally a mechanical matter, but it shows on my CSA, and my PSP. I’ve been deemed ineligible for hire by two companies because of that. It’s in dispute with FMCSA, but I had to hire a lawyer to do an administrative dispute because there was no court appearance required on the citation, thus, no court disposition of the violations, as they were solely directed against the carrier, not me as the driver.
Although it’s won’t be public companies will require you to sign a waiver to look at it insurance, employer or they won’t hire you or cover you on insurance
This has a good and bad side to it the good side is now crappy company’s can hide how crappy they are. The bad side is you as a driver can’t look up how crappy a company is before you hire on ands its not only little companys its the big ones too.we as drivers get checked out from company’s but we have no avenues to check them out until its too late .drivers need protection too
I absolutely agree…with this…
Now I can’t check how a prospective employer is, double edged coin here.
Join a union. Be protected.
Yeah , right…the unions (the Teamsters, in particular) just protect whiners and slackers and keep productive people down…been there, done that…I’m in a non-union job and loving it…
its a win for bigness -the driver still shows his csa– changed for the company driver still taking in the rear
I wondered about that Bart! They still want to throw the driver under the bus! Geez!
I agree it should be done away with ,its not a fare system to the drivers or carrier’s.
Its like this when in doubt blame the driver not ever the companies fault without a proper deep digging investigation. Smart ass’ on the hill have law degrees and they know everything.
I guess we’ll just have to ask a perspective employer for the scores. They’re response will tell you a lot about the company. But it’s just more bullshit to throw in the driver and publics face and screw the transparency.
Theyll vote on it later and bring it back end of story
They need to fix it for us drivers too we always get the shaft we tell the company what’s wrong but they don’t care they say if we don’t do it they will put another driver in it guess what we lose again
Right when Swift fixed their unsafe driving basic, CSA goes hidden again. Expect Swift drivers to go back to living up to their reputation.
Well THANK GOD businesses don’t have to be effected by CSA scores. Individual drivers, on the other hand can still enjoy a system that unjustly penalizes them for accidents they didn’t cause. But the money can still flow unchecked to the mega-carriers who can avoid fixing their trailer fleets and small carriers who can ignore safety regulations and not loose business. There is nothing as American as screwing the peons and rewarding the big guys for breaking the rules!
Hidden from view? What does that mean when I pull through a scale and DOT can still see the score and decide to do a ‘random’?
A co-worker was “merged into” by a motorist who was cited for “failure to yield”.
The accident showed up on the driver’s MVR as an “accident” although, “no fault”.
Except, he became unemployable by good trucking firms who want no accidents on record.
He hired an attorney to collect compensation from the other driver for damage to his future employeability and didn’t even have to file suit as the other driver’s insurance company made a generous settlement.
Drivers need to take the time and, occasionally, money to go after motorists who damage our reputations.
If a company you are trying to get hired with rejects you strictly on the basis of your CSA score (without research/additional input from you) you probably don’t want to work for them anyway.
However, if you have a terrible CSA score (ie., accident(s) which you are at fault) and that company is willing to hire you with no explanation needed, then you can probably count on that company having a terrible CSA as well.
Be safe, drive smart!
What happen to the driver score when before Aug. 23,2014 . I went to court and some of the things were drop ( dis missed gone off the state record) , but cas will not take them off ?
I had a tire blow out in VA on 81 and pulled over 2/10ths of a mile from the exit. I got shut down put OOS and got crazy points along with it. I challenged it through the website and the cop denied me and said it was just. When I wrote back and pleaded my case further as I was trying to exit to a safe haven I was told to give it up the cop has final say. Shouldn’t a judge have final say? This whole CSA crap takes our rights to defend ourselves to the fullest constitutional limits away.
I got pulled over 2/10ths.
Sorry had to correct that.