Land Star: We don't tell applicants why they weren't qualified

It's like this, companies now are going to use the CSA point system. The company I'm with now, says they will allow 50 points. After that, your done. You gotta go.

And the way they explained it to me, was when you get points, say something like a seat belt violation.. Thats 7 points. And for some stupid reason, the points are multiplied by 3. So one seat belt ticket will cost you 21 point. Throw in a couple of unexpected's, and whammo.. your looking for another job.. And if every company goes by the same 50 point scale, you won't be able to drive a truck.

 

Back to fishing....

 

Wrong again... They don't drop off for 3 years.. Remember, the data is collected for 3 years.. So they stay on your record for 3 years.

Everyone I know, tries to keep their points down. But sometime, things happen thats out of your control.

You 11 hours is up, and you can't find a legal place to park, so you keep driving. Bam..Points.
Go a few miles over the speed limit (even 2 mph) bam you got points. You may only get a warning. But the points are still there.

Turn on you light at dusk, one goes out. Bam, you've got points.
get a nail in your tire, and it goes flat before you can make it to a tire shop. Bam.. you've got points.

You must have been out here very long..

 

Going west on I80. Got inspected. I keep my truck in very good working order. When something goes wrong, I fix it. Lights, brakes, or anything else.

The inspector found a crack in one of my brake shoes less than an inch long. BAM....Points
She also found a slack adjuster that was about 1/16th out of adjustment.
I knew the show had a small crack in it. And was planning on getting new drums and pads on both sides as soon as they started getting close to being "too far gone". It was on the list...

But I wasn't going to spend $250 on a set of pads that were still in good condition. And the slack adjuster,... Well, I'm not going to check each one with a set of micrometers...But she did.

Funny thing about this... I went and had new drums, shoes and slack adjusters put on. And now, I've got some squealing when I stop. And hard vibration when I back up and apply the brakes....I'm pretty sure, it's just the new shoes and drums working themselves in. I've had it checked twice, and that's all they can find...

But according to the DOT, those loud squeals and vibration are OK.

But, in the end, I still have more points from something that didn't make me or anyone else, unsafe....

For the life of me, I can't see how anyone would support this CSA 2010. Unless they were lacking "common sense".