Due Process & CSA2010?????

Who has access?
Only those people that you give permission. Of course, no one will hire you or insure you without access to that info!
Of course this "score" has impact! A higher score will lessen your odds of getting or keeping a good job as no employer will knowingly hire an "unsafe" driver as it will have an impact on their "safety score"!
Also what insurance company will insure the driver with a higher number? Or they will just keep raising the rates on those drivers that have high scores until they can no longer afford insurance and are forced out of the industry.
I suppose that's not the same as being convicted of a crime or having your license revoked or a fine levied against you but, it accomplishes the same goals.
That is how the lawmakers get around the Constitution. They aren't depriving you of your rights, but by keeping this info, and making it possible to be used against you, private industry will take away your rights and it's completely legal.

 

My guess would be that once a member is denied employment due to a CSA2010 score, that is clearly identified as such by the carrier, and the DataQ system is exhausted. The only alternatives are wating it out, or going to court.

Actually that shouldn't be too long. The initial set of CSA2010 scores at my carrier included a group of long-term drivers, who are considered by the safety dept. to be exemplary safe drivers, whose CSA2010 scores were very high due to accumulated warnings. These guys are not in danger of loosing their jobs, but...

There's no recourse for these drivers if they move on ard are denied employment. Surely some of this group includes OOIDA members - are also represented in unemployed drivers at large.

OTOH, this could be one of the issues that is delaying deployment of CSA2010...

 

Are drivers going to suffer due to a companies lack of maintenence on the equipment? Or is the drivers point system based just on their driving record? It'd be awful unfair if the driver got a bad rap for the company they drive for having sub-par equipment

 

Which is one of the goals of the ATA, who supported this garbage from the beginning!

 

How is this bad? I have no use for anyone that takes equipment not road ready and gets caught.

This is one of the things that us, drivers as a group should have fixed. But no, all we did was complain to each other and still take the equipment on the road. We failed at self policing, now we the government to help.

Mark

 

You know we're not going to get "drivers to stand together as a group." It comes down to the individual facing down the company, and saying, "I won't accept this." That takes some moxie in the first place, and it may result in the response that either you take the equipment out or loose your job. It's not like driving jobs are just falling from the skies these days.

CSA2010 may fix some of that, holding the bottom-feeders responsible for this. Meantime, the legacy of all the years that they squeezed-by on the backs of the drivers is still with us in the form of old tickets and warnings. Nor does it help that the main goal of law enforcement quite often seems to be padding the government revenue stream, rather than rational enforcement of laws leading to a safer highway.