The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced on December 2nd that it would be fixing one of the most common complaints about their CSA scoring system. They will be allowing the Motor Carrier Management Information System to be updated to reflect the current status of a previous citation. This will be good news for drivers and carriers who are issued a citation and then are able to get it repealed.
In the past, if a driver was issued a citation, say for being at-fault in an accident, that citation would show up on their report and impact the carrier’s CSA score. From then on, even if the driver was able to prove that they were not at fault, the citation would remain in the system. The FMCSA is now working on a way to mark the status of the citation.
According to the FMCSA, they will be modifying both the MCMIS and SafetyNet systems to show that:
– The citation has been overturned or resulted in a finding of not guilty
– The citation resulted in a conviction of a different of lesser charge
– The citation resulted in conviction of the original charge.
Unfortunately, the FMCSA is only planning on implementing this for citations issued on or after the date that the change goes into effect, meaning that every overturned citation issued before the change date will be irrevocable.
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Hey, who said they had to be fair? This is the DOT we’re talking about. Fascist and stubborn, no matter how many careers and lives they may ruin for otherwise innocent people.
The whole DOT needs a revision, not just this rule.
That is a major problem with the whole CSA system. You go to court and a Judge dismisses the charge but the officer still has the power to keep it on the driver and company profile. The officer has now become not only the one writing the violation, but is now judge and jury. This is above the law in so many ways.
If they are going to allow this type of behavior and rulings there is really no need to have a DataQ system and pay officers to handle DataQ requests. It is a waist of time and money.
This rule is complete b.s. I beat two tickets in court with a lawyer as they were blatantly easy to see as purely revenue generation tickets! Then they still show up on my CSA keeping me from returning to work for 9 months and being homeless for 4 of those months!!! The entire system gets abused nationwide DAYLY!!! We as an industry are about to be forced to either shut down, or operate illegally!
Highway safety cannot and will not be improved until we get them to stop using citations as a source of revenue generation, and start issuing them based solely on video evidence! Also they must issue them equally and cite the non commercial drivers over us based on the level of idiocy of the infraction! All this extra targeted enforcement is discrimination!!
I lost my CDL in 2006 in Fostoria Municipal Court,because no one stood up in my defence during the court proceeding. That was after my wife,and I drove 5 hrs to get there. I told my wife when we left Michigan at the Ohio line.”When we cross this line we’ll have no friends”. Now she knows how dishonest the court system is in Ohio.The Ohio Highway patrol notified Michigan that I’m a “danger to others on the highway”. It’s 2013,and I still don’t have a license, the state of Ohio is refusing Michigan to reinstate my license. It’s all politics in the legal system.
This is very vague. There is nothing here to give merit to your situation. Perhaps there should have been a lawyer involved.
What did you do to lose your cdl?
I don’t see what’s so complicated about designing a site that reflects the current status of a citation. I live in Virginia and you can go on the court website(Public site) and pull up any case in the court system and it shows every court date and a description of the hearing..eg arraignment, information of attorney and also final disposition. If someone looks up a case it says guilty, dismissed, nolproc etc.. It really isn’t that complicated.
When you get pulled over for ‘speeding’ and then the officer admits that he was only curious about the truck you were driving, and the PSP report says pulled over for speeding(no citation given ,just level two inspection), and your MVR says
“clean with no tickets” and you dispute the PSP report with the reporting officer’s agency, using the MVR as proof, the agency may just ignore your request to clear the PSP report.
Had that happen on a rental/ lease truck in Colorado. The truck didn’t have all the lettering it needed, and as I was a rent a wreck driver for Christmas season, it was a waste of time to talk to the client about the omission by Lease company. I was running ten under the speed limit with a broken ecm in a blizzard, which was refused service and fuel in Grand Junction, by Penske, by both client and rental company,at their terminal, even with fuel card in hand.
It ‘s hard to do your job when a CDL in hand becomes a Criminal Drivers License.