Saftey Rating

In your situation, there is only two ways to improve it:
1st and harder one: get more trucks and that will lower percentage, once (which usually takes loooong time) they have your profile updated
2nd: stop at scale(when you have time, which is just about impossible) and ask for an inspection (be sure you are good on logs and truck before you do this)

As you can see, just as with credit score, there is no way to improve safety score quickly... As for me, i run out of Chicago and see way too many trucks that do not belong on the road, by just being able to avoid inspections. I spend lots of money in order to keep my equipment safe and up to and above the standards , while others, who don't care about nothing but cash just go on until they kill someone...

 

Like AM77 said above, you can't really do anything to improve it immediately. Yes, you can try to get some good ones but that can go either way and they don't really seem to help that much anyway. Just stay clean until the violations get 6 months old. At 6 months, the time severity multiplier goes from 3 to 2. In other words, 36 points becomes 24. That may help.

It's grasping at straws, but you always challenge the brake shoe violation through their Data Q appeal process if you disagree. Good luck with that though.

 

Do accurate pre-trips and post-trips. Inspect what you expect. Don't cut corners, don't fudge logs, and don't act like it's not your fault when you get a bad score on your card from a Level 1 or 2 when it's something that could have been found on your pre/post trip.

 

What pisses me off is when you have a good inspection it dont show up like it never happen I had a truck inspected 3 times last month he didnt have any problems on two but one they got him for a light and log book guess what report showed up and what two didnt total BS

 

same thing here, got pulled in on north 45 south of Dallas. no violations found, thats been over 3 months ago still not on my profile. had another last year no violations never has shown on csa, only the bad ones show up and no with cargo securment related violations being placed with maintenance, it is only going to get worse. all this csa crap is, is a way to weed out the little man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

You should submit a Data Q challenge to get credit for those good inspections.

 

If you have the inspection certificates, by all means submit a Data Q. That is an easy win.

NY has a little trick where they make you do a drive by. They stop you and they check for tires, air leaks, lights, weight etc and let you drive on if everything looks good. You don`t get credit for passing this ìnspection but if they see something they don;t like they pull you over and do the full monty and you can bet you will get credit for that.

 

How do you go about doing that?

 

Log into the CSA portal and there should be a clickable link on there somewhere that says "sumbit a data q" or something to that effect. Click on that and follow the instructions. I submitted one of these challenges ~5 years ago under the old safersys system and I won.

One of our drivers allegedly knocked down a telephone pole and left the scene. Driver says he rubbed it but it didn't fall. But I digress. The safersys website had this incident listed as a fatality, and it wasn't. I said as much in the in the data q. Safersys communicated to me (via the e-mail within the safersys portal) that the burden of proof was on me. Since the driver left the scene there was no police report so I contacted my insurance company and got a copy. From there I got the officer's name and detachment. I called the detachment and he was good enough to fax me a copy of the police report showing no fatalities and no injuries. I sent this report to safersys and they deleted the fatality from the record.

If you have inspection records it should be an easy win for you.