DOT Inspection

To me a very good company fixes stuff & keeps registration & stuff up.

 

What's a psp report? <<<< RHETORICAL

I have been inspected a lot when I was running hazmat out of Indiana, and when I went temp driving, my psp was ... well nothing about inspections on it.


Maybe I missed something, but then maybe one of the reasons i ignore it is because I do not think it matters.

 

Well as of late it means something and it matters more so than a clean MVR and CDLIS. Better get your head out of the sand driver, things are getting worse and you're not as safe as you think you are. But you'll figure that out soon enough I'm sure. There are things at play here that you don't understand yet. But again you will. While you're busy working hard, the FMCSA is behind the scenes working out plans with mega carriers to put the O/Ops out of business. Right now as I type they are trying to raise insurance rates to cover 2 million instead of 1. Mom and pop places can't afford that nor can a single O/op. These CSA scores damage a fleet of 3 to 5 trucks beyond repair since there isn't a few hundred good inspections to offset the one bad inspection. If you do the math and work with percentages you'd understand what I am saying. They continue to push faulty ELD's that have non-compliant modes attached to them without the carrier even knowing it and the DOT doesn't want to hear it. This happened to a company I was with, they purchased the keep trucking eld and put one driver in the wrong mode without it being obvious on their personal computer. It resulted in an out of service order and a fine along with heavy CSA points. The driver's psp was annihilated despite it not actually being purposely done to run illegal hours. Again though, FMCSA and DOT don't comprehend "reason" so now that company is rated a B company and having issues getting broker loads. Needless to say they aren't long for this business and they didn't even conduct business unsafely, just unknowingly. Regardless, it's game over. Sadly most truck drivers have no other form of education so they lack the ability to calculate when they are being given a bad deal.

 

you had me until the end. drivers no whats wrong or whats right. people choose not to do right

 

Did you look on your company's SMS score page? Down under the detailed portion below, they will generally show up there within 30 days, and include the license plate#, date, location and results ( good or bad).

 

Nothing good comes from an inspection.

Insurance rates go up.
Tow trucks are called.
Repair trucks are called.
Time is lost.

And anyone that says "oh well if there is nothing wrong with your truck than you have nothing to worry about" hasn't been trucking long enough to find out other wise.

 

DataQ everything...everything

 

Plus most of the time when you pass a level 1 inspection they don't have a sticker for your truck..
I say if they don't have stickers they shouldn't be doing level 1 inspections...

 

Yeah even with a brand spanking new truck they'll write you up for something if they look hard enough. (Or knew they were just going to write for something in the 1st place)

 

Stickers don't mean anything.

They don't stop you from getting inspected 5 minutes later.