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

I think at this point we can toss the "get a job with a better company" bull out the window. Anybody who believes that line needs to go outside and look around, you've been down in the basement too long.

 

Is that where ll the people going to CDL mills came from ? Bargain basement specials for the bottom feeders .

 

Dave,
As I understand it in a case like that, you would take all that documentation in with you and show DOT. They would put the equipment out of service until its fixed, not you. That equipment OOS would go against the company. Too many of those and they are out, in which case you would have to drive for someone else anyways. SO save your self the hassle and look for another company to drive for.

 

The only problem is that you drove the truck to the DOT, so you will be ticketed for operating a defective vehicle also. One of the diesel cops said as much on one of the threads.

No way to win on that one. Refuse to drive an unsafe truck, you're gone. Maybe not today, but you will be gone. Drive to coops, you get ticket, your rating goes down, you're gone.

 

There are good companies and bad. The ratings are available for you to look at and even show where the rating is coming from ie: driver or equipment citations. And, yes the good companies are hiring Good Drivers.

 

It sounds like you are a person who takes seriously, keeping your equip in top notch shape. but everything has to go out sometime. most of the time defects wil not appear while doing your pretrip. a marker light may go out while driving in detroit MI over all the pot holes. things can be fine at pretrip, then you get pulled over & you have a light out. d.o.t can still write you up & it WILL go on your record. how would you stop this from happening?

 

Last time I glanced at the job board there were several drivers with 10-30 years experience that couldn't find a job pushing a broom, much less driving a truck. Look at the economy, look at how Arrow just went down, there's 1500 more guys out looking for work. If you are lucky enough to get hired on at one of those "good" companies, you're one out of a thousand or so. What are the other 999 supposed to do?

 

Your bad driving record is why you can't get a job of any kind? All out of work drivers must have bad records, I see.

 

So, from this we must conclude that the 1400 (give or take a few) drivers who were working for Arrow up until last week are all bad drivers?