CSA and inspections

Didn’t need that I already knew there was no CSA “score”. What people called a score is a percentile ranking.

 

Can’t find a text file but if you can’t do pdf I’ll quote a couple of pages. Format may be screwed, we’ll see.


Introduction
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Inspection Selection System (ISS) is used at roadside inspection stations to help inspectors identify and prioritize motor carriers for safety inspections. In a further effort to improve large truck and bus safety, and ultimately reduce commercial motor vehicle (CMV) crashes as part of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) Initiative, FMCSA is updating the current algorithm that ISS employs to select motor carriers for inspection, called ISS-CSA, to be aligned with the current Safety Measurement System (SMS) Version 3.0. ISS-CSA assigns an inspection recommendation of ‘Inspect’, ‘Pass’ or ‘Optional’ and an ISS inspection value from one (1) to 100 for every entity registered in the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS).

ISS-CSA prioritizes carriers by assigning inspection recommendations and inspection values based, in part, on a carrier’s Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) percentile values from the FMCSA’s CSA SMS.

Because ISS-CSA uses BASIC percentiles from the SMS, that system is described briefly here: the SMS uses a motor carrier’s data from roadside inspections and State-reported crashes in the last 24 months along with the Federal motor carrier census data to quantify safety performance in the following BASICs:
• Unsafe Driving – Parts 392 and 397 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs)
• Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance (FMCSR Parts 392 and 395)
• Driver Fitness (FMCSR Parts 383 and 391)
• Controlled Substances and Alcohol (FMCSR Parts 382 and 392)
• Vehicle Maintenance (FMCSR Parts 392, 393, and 396)
• Hazardous Materials (HM) Compliance (FMCSR Part 397 and Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMRs) 171, 172, 173, 177, 178, 179, and, 180)
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• Crash Indicator – Histories or patterns of high crash involvement, including frequency and severity, based on information from State-reported crashes.

 

Thanks! I can do PDFs it's just the forcible downloads that can be concerning, at least in the past.

But yes, I agree with what you posted. It is a carrier's ISS Score that can determine if a truck gets inspected.

 

But again, a CSA rating and an ISS score are not the same thing. Yes, they are similar but they are distinctly different.

https://app.thetruckersnetwork.net/...score identifies high,rating from zero to 100.

 

PrePass ISS Score.

From Prepass. All about the ISS and not the CSA.

 

ISS Score explained by the FMCSA.

FMCSA Portal User Help

Again, it is a company's ISS Score that gets a truck inspected. Simple folks refer to this as a 'CSA Score'. Precise minds know and refer to it as the ISSS, as seen on a clean inspection 'reason code' I received:

 

I don’t guess it matters that the FMCSA calls it a ISS-CSA inspection value and Prepass and others calls it an ISS score. No one will get hurt over it but why not go to the source for information rather than third party interperters? Those people are the ones who convinced many drivers (Some who still believe) they have CSA scores.

 

The FMSCA refers to it simply as an ISS Score. The FMCSA does not refer to it as "ISS-CSA" whatsoever.

 

Did you not read the quote from the fmcsa file I posted?

 

Ok yes, they did refer to it as the ISS-CSA in 2012. Today in 2023 the FMCSA does not refer to it that way.