CARGO EXPRESS......JJ's New truck stop.

She jumps in the truck

 

No she doesn't John had to help her in last time he took her for a ride when we had the Pete!! She is a lil fatter and older now she can get out on her own but getting in, sadly she needed a hand!

 

Well, was listening to the Lockridge report today and they had a guy on who either owned or ran a company that is helping the trucking companies get ready for this CSA2010. Found out, that as of this time, I am screwed big time!!!! Both of my accidents will count against me and they are making no differentiation between preventable and non-preventable!!! Sux to be me. Supposedly, they are going to go back and revisit this and come up with some kind of a weighing system. Don't know what ya'll think but my opinion is, it wasn't MY fault, shouldn't count against ME at all!!!!
Once again I had no preplanafter my drop. Said MI was slow at this time. Bout 4 hrs into my break, QC goes nuts. Good thing I wasn't asleep yet or I wouldn't have heard it. Sent me to the wally world in Grove City, MO with a load going to Plainview, TX. Sure hope I can get there early enough to grab a tlr. Already know, well anyway, pretty sure, I'll be getting a meat load. Hope I don't have to sit for 3 days this time!!!!
JJ, does 1BAd run mostly during the day? Ought to call and harass him.
KH, sorry bout missing your call the other day. Think the hands free headset died. Tried to answer but didn't hear anything.

 

I had heard that a while back Panhandle, but I did not want to go against what you posted your safety guy said. I was hoping it would get changed before it mattered.
It is one of the BIG things that OOIDA and ATA are fighting on CSA2010. Epically since 75%+ of the accidents trucks are involved in are not the drivers fault.
Of course that is the full reason why the safety groups and the FMCSA want all accidents listed, since they know that no company will ever get in trouble due to at fault accidents, so that basic would be worthless.

Anyway.
I have not been on all week. Crappy miles this week. I guess we do not have enough trucks out of the 2 terminals in the Northeast div. So I was stuck here all week with short loads. I will break 2000 for the week, but that is it. At least almost all the miles are what the company calls "green miles" so I get an extra .04 cpm. Though it should be like .10 cpm more.
Have a 2 stop in the morning, second one is up north of white plains NY, near sing sing prison. Then picking up in Middletown NY for a Tues delivery in Detroit that I can bring home.

 

PF,

No problem man. Things happen in life. I hope they will treat both of your cases on a case by case basis and give you zero points. Sometimes the law is in our favor and sometimes it is out to get us. Good luck.

KH

 

That is what part of the arguments are that ATA is giving them. Right now there is no way of treating accidents different. To CSA it makes no difference who is at fault, and the FMCSA is very very against changing that.
They say that the numbers show that certain drivers are more prone to getting in accidents, regardless of fault.
What I do not think they are looking at is into the numbers. What lanes are those drivers running, what miles, what weight of loads. All of these are important, and all can lead to more exposure to accidents.