CSA 2010: How will the Driver Rating System affect you?

This information is already collected on each and every driver, it is now going to be used to classify your ability to operate a commercial vehicle, it is not retroactive, just being compiled and graded.

As for OOIDA, they are part of CVSA and helped create the rules that are being implemented.

What I really don't understand is all the outrage from the truckers. This is what happens when you will not self regulate yourself, and stay within the rules, and project a positive attitude to the general public, instead of the perception the general public have of the nasty dirty law breaking truck driver.

And every time a driver gets a violation, it also counts against the company that driver works for, so that more companies that allow their drivers to break the law will be punished, and closed.

 

OOIDA was only involved to minimize the damage. We are not the PR department. I do not care that someone doesn't "like" the pattern of dirt on my bumper.

 

I think this is going to be an interesting problem next year.

Drivers will realize their liability or issues with the way companies want to run them.

Driver refuses to run the way dispatch says. Company fires driver. Does the damage to the DAC.

What does the driver do?

Sounds like a big rock and major hard place.

 

With an endless supply of replacements. All that's left is too see how many companies go out of business before enough shelves are empty that the public notices what's going on and throws a temper tantrum.

 

Good point.

But I am concerned about the poor trucker that loses the job. Where does he go?

 

I,m not fully aware of all the stipulations of CSA 2010, however from reading this thread i have a few questions for you experienced guys.

Will there really be an endless supply of replacements? If the economy picks up wont a lot of recent truck drivers go back to the profession they where laid off from, also with some drivers being disqualified from driving will that not also create a shortage of drivers. After reading this forum it seems like not long ago that companies couldn,t get enough drivers and the recent influx is economy driven, aside from the fact that i read here only 25% make it through the first year.

Also immigration is down since last year, and even if it picks up again it takes a long time to get fully legal the legit way.

I also read a lot of complaints here about safety and the lack of it on the road, will this new legislation benefit the safe truckers who are running legal now anyway?

Appreciate any answers you might have.

 

There was a large surplus of drivers and driver wannabes in 07 from what I saw and it's only gone up from there. I don't see the economy getting better anytime soon. In my opinion, it will get bad from here. Then it will get worse.

There never really was a shortage of drivers. The companies just treated their drivers so badly that their turnover rate was, and still is, through the roof. So they advertised that there was a shortage to get more people to apply so they could chew them up and spit them out too. It's become a standard business model at a lot of companies.

With the turnover rates like that, of course there's unsafe drivers all over the roads. These new rules will not change that. All they will do is get a lot of decent drivers taken off the road along with the bad ones. All of them will be replaced from the ever growing pool of people who don't know any better.

 

CDL meatgrider.

 

I'm getting the feeling that a lot of us are going to have to figure that out.

 

You have very valid points and I agree with you but these companies will only be able to do it for so long before this new system will catch up to them ( hopefully and I think ) before they will have to change or something will have to give. As I have said earlier I see some good things coming with this but I still see more bad than good so is it worth the good it will bring? I guess we will find out because whether we like it or not it's coming.