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

No matter what the threshold is, they'll eliminate the worst drivers and companies, and then lower it to eliminate more. Nothing is ever enough with the government, they will always build and expand to punish more people.

 

I guess the question will become: "At what point, threshold, # of fatalities, whatever do we say "OK, that's acceptable". Hypothetically, we could say, "Last year only 500 people died, that's tolerable". It's a tough question, but someone's gonna have to answer it.

 

The Insurance Companies and the FMCSA /ATA/MEGA BOTTOM FEEDER CARRIERS that invented DAC,CSA2010....will Blackball any Driver they want, by a point system that was invented by lawyers for lawyers. THANKS Scumbag Politican/lawyer/ATA, you are burning the Trucking Industry to the ground. You Have screwed the Great American Trucker.

 

This would be the perfect post if you added one one last comment:
"and started a process wherein any citizen can be deprived of his/her rights for the safety/security of the public!"

 

Actually that has been going on for some time now with the Patriot Act etc.

 

If the government deemed you a safety or security risk in the 40's you were blackballed, nothing has really changed.

Mark

 

From CSA 2010 Public Listening Sessions:



http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/listeningSessions/
Under CSA 2010, individual drivers will not be assigned safety ratings or safety fitness determinations



•Other Agency initiatives are underway, including the Pre-employment Screening Program (PSP)
–PSP was mandated by Congress and is not a part of CSA 2010
–“Driver Profiles” from FMCSA’s Driver Information Resource (DIR) will be available to carriers through PSP
–Driver Profiles will only be released with driver authorization





Mark

 

He is running under Swift's authority. Some of his other trucks were ok, a couple had ongoing issues with lights burning out.

 

Maybe I've just missed them but I haven't read many posts about what carriers are doing to prepare themselves and their drivers for the onset (or onslaught) of CSA 2010. Maybe putting too much emphasis on it is like admitting there's a problem. What's going on out there?

 

When I went to the last safety meeting in October, the company said they were going to buy new trucks this year and step up preventive maintenance, and for all drivers to write up anything that was wrong. They also had fired two cronic log book violators, and said more would be leaving if they continued to get personal citations.

I'm doing my part to keep violations off my record. I quit driving again and am back to working my own business again. I don't have anything against me, and hope to keep it that way.