CSA 2010: The data

Ok, how will the PSP find out if there's no yellow form submitted????

 

Yeah, did he do an inspection?

 

do yourself a favor and get an attorney.

 

No inspection..... no papers check...nothing, just a ticket for 5 over and a have a nice day.....

 

I disagree, for the long term at least.

At my company for example we are losing some business because we do not have the driver capacity to bring in more business. We could expand with another herbicide company, but until we can produce more trucks we can't.

We could expand in peroxide, but again we don't have the drivers. It also means the small group of lazy bums who always say "Nah, I'm not gonna come in today. I'm gonna take the week off, by the way I need a com check to pay my rent", but nag about not making money have more power. When they know we can't get rid of them they don't work.

We do have a lot of good drivers, hell, we have O/Os who own 2-5 trucks and hire drivers to drive them, then lease those trucks with us, making themselves a nice profit. But its the lazy bums who do bad work, or don't work that cause us problems. The driver shortage only encourages these #######es. CSA might get rid of the ones who do a bad job, but it wont bring in any to replace them.

Sure, for the short term it will benefit the driver, to some extent even the company. We can charge higher rates. But gradually business will be lost, drivers will retire or die, and companies will be left hanging.

If we had 5-10 more drivers, our guys would be busy all the time, and in new and higher freight charge fields.

Without the drivers, we wont expand, and in fact could lose business.

A lot of our guys think like that. They don't see lots of work to choose from because we can't solicit work we can't handle. If we had more drivers to handle it and cover it, we could take it.

That's my experience, perhaps its different at bigger companies. Those idiots cut rates all over the place. Sometimes I wonder how they make money... well I know... I just wonder how they keep convincing drivers to work for them.

 

That shouldn't ding your CSA score then.

 

That ticket may not show up on the CSA but will still end up on the state MVR which the carrier will see. Not to mention it must be reported to the motor carrier by the driver anyway. Failure to do so can result in termination. I know I had to get rid of a driver because he failed to report a ticket.

I agree with the advice, get an attorney ... whatever it takes to keep the speeding off the record. Probably change it to an equipment violation, as long as they get their money.

 

It might cost several hundred but donate to the local "crime fund" and pay court costs. You won't need to show up in court.


The guys that advertise in The Trucker paper I heard were good. TVCC? A joke!

 

Call OOIDA. They'll give you the # for Road Law. The attorney cost about $400, got it reduced to a non-moving violation/infraction, and I paid a $225 fine.

BTW, the ticket was for 15 over in a reduced truck speed zone. I was doing 50mph down the Grapevine in Cali !!!

 

Thank you, I'll call them ASAP.