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"How can I, as a driver, prepare for CSA 2010?

As a driver, you can do the following five things to prepare for CSA 2010:

1) Know and follow safety rules and regulations: Make sure youunderstand and follow FMCSAs safety rules and regulations. You can review these on FMCSAs website (http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrguide.aspx?section_type=A).

As a driver you share safety responsibilities with your employing carrier in several areas; for example, you must make sure your vehicle is in safe operating condition, that you are well-rested and sober when you drive, that you drive within speed limits and follow Hours-of-Service rules. You can find web-based driving tips for commercial motor vehicle operators at the following link, http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/outreach/education/driverTips/index.htm.

2) Become knowledgeable about the new Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) and how FMCSA will assess safety: You can learn about the BASICs and the new Safety Measurement System at the CSA 2010 Website. A number of factsheets, briefings, articles, and frequently asked questions are available to support your understanding.

3) Keep copies of your inspection reports: Begin tokeep copies of your inspection records and review them to see where you can improve. To start, you can ask your current employer to pull the safety performance record you have compiled with them. You should know that CSA 2010 considers all roadside safety violations and not just Out-of-Service violations this is different from todays model. Therefore, with CSA 2010, all roadside inspection results will be more important than ever to you and your current and future employers.

4) Learn about your employers safety record: Safety information on carriers is publicly available online. You can link to that information on SafeStat online by visiting the site directly, http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SafeStat/SafeStatMain.asp.

5) Visit the CSA 2010 Website: FMCSA continually updates the CSA 2010 Website (www.csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov) with new information and materials. You will find explanations, answers to questions, articles, factsheets, briefings, and more. You should sign up for the email subscription service and RSS feed to get the most up-to-date information. You can also submit questions to make sure you fully understand the new program."

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Finding the Needles in the Haystack Under CSA 2010
By Diana Britton, Managing Editor

Under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, or CSA 2010, the FMCSA is going to be looking at five times the amount of data as under the SafeStat system. In addition, carriers are going to be measured by the seven Behavior Analysis & Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs), which are complex measurements of safety performance.

For carriers to survive under the new system, they need to understand their CSA 2010 scores. And with all this data and complexity, the best way to do this is by zeroing in on the fleet's problem areas.

"Where are the needles in the haystack?" asks Sloan Morris, director of client services at Vigillo, which provides fleet risk management solutions. Morris gave his insights on how fleets can best understand and manage their CSA 2010 safety scores during a webinar Tuesday, which was presented by the American Trucking Associations.

Vigillo provides a suite of CSA 2010 offerings, including several scorecards to give carriers an idea of how they stack up under the new system.

Finding the Needles

During the webinar, Morris walked fleets through the Vigillo scorecard system, pointing out ways fleets can best take advantage of such tools.

According to Morris, 68 percent of Vigillo customers have at least one BASIC over the intervention threshold. This is a large percent of fleets that will trigger an invention, whether that's a warning letter or an out-of-service order. "The best intervention is the intervention you don't have," Morris said. "The name of the game is to prevent them from happening."

Morris says the best way to prevent interventions is to identify the problem areas; don't try to address every violation. Under CSA 2010, there are about 1,000 different kinds of violations, but Morris recommends focusing on about 12 violations across the fleet that represent the most points. In most cases, there are about two to three violations per BASIC that are causing the majority of a fleet's points, Morris says.

How do you find these needles in the haystack? Vigillo's system drills down a fleet's score by violation, BASIC, driver and root cause.

By BASIC, Violation

With Vigillo's system, a carrier can see how they compare to others in their peer group under every BASIC. For fatigued driving, driver fitness, vehicle maintenance and cargo securement BASICs, carriers will be compared to peers based on the number of relevant inspections, or an inspection where a driver or carrier did get a violation or could have, Morris said. For the other BASICs, carriers will be compared by the number of power units they have in the Vigillo system. If you're underreporting the number of power units in your fleet, this could negatively affect your score, he added.

Drilling down by BASIC, fleets can see which violations in that BASIC are most prevalent. Under the violations tab, carriers will see the problem areas across all BASICs.

By Driver

"Your drivers are the building blocks of CSA 2010," Morris said.

Vigillo also drills down the data by driver, showing each driver's percentile rank within the fleet across all BASICs as well as their performance in each individual BASIC.

In addition to looking at multiple drivers at once, the Vigillo system allows a fleet to look at individual drivers' performance through a Driver Profile. Morris said many fleets like to print these out and hand them out to drivers for coaching and education. These scorecards can help drivers continue as a professional driver, he said. "It makes a strong impact on the drivers, and everyone's on the same page."

Inspection Root Cause

Vigillo also presents a carrier's data through an Inspection Root Cause Scorecard, which shows the areas that are triggering an inspection in the fleet. The idea is that if you reduce the number of inspections in your fleet, you're bound to cut down the number of violations in turn.

Vigillo's analysis of CSA 2010 data on more than 400,000 drivers and over 1,000 carriers found that 81 percent of violations are triggered by things drivers can control, such as speeding and observable defects. Nineteen percent of violations are triggered by other things. The new Root Cause Scorecard pinpoints areas that carriers need to address with drivers to lower risk and costs.
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And the beat goes on!

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Heard somescuttlebutt last night. Driver seemed convinced that anyone 5'10" and over 230lbs will be out. To my way of thinking that would loosen up maybe HALF the fleet of drivers, me included!

I am worried that should I get inspected there are a few things on this truck they might not like. I've been hollering for a different truck with an APU, and praying a lot.

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a large percent of fleets that will trigger an invention
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AH MAH GAWD!

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I have it on good authority that if you are involved in a DOT recordable accident, whether you are at fault or not, it will count against your CSA 2010 points. Wow...talk about bull****! I don't see how you can be held to account for an incident in which you are the innocent party. What will it take before we all say we've had enough...go get your own d*** freight.

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Injun said: ↑

I have it on good authority that if you are involved in a DOT recordable accident, whether you are at fault or not, it will count against your CSA 2010 points. Wow...talk about bull****! I don't see how you can be held to account for an incident in which you are the innocent party. What will it take before we all say we've had enough...go get your own d*** freight.
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This is one of the things that ATA, OOIDA and state trucking associations are blasting FMCSA about. FMCSA believes that if a carriers has "more than their fair share" of accidents, even if no fault has been established, it shows the carriers "propensity" for being involved in crashes. FMCSA might just have an uphill battle getting the Crash Indicator BASIC to fly! But then, they don't have to have anyone's permission!

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The only "accident" I have on my record occurred when I was parked at a rest area. As I was walking back to my truck a car hauler took out my trailer. Hit it so hard it broke the welds on the spring mounts. Guess I should have just pissed in a bottle going down the road and thrown it out on the side of the road. No points for that.

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I read on the CSA2010 they are going back two years to compile data. That is far from fair. They should start everyone from scratch the time it goes into affect.

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CondoCruiser said: ↑

I read on the CSA2010 they are going back two years to compile data. That is far from fair. They should start everyone from scratch the time it goes into affect.
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3 years for drivers, 2 years for carriers. Okay, time for your head to explode!

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Ha! They can't get but 2-3 months of data on me!

NO on the road trouble, but I did mess up a Volvo at a Truck Stop....

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