CSA and inspections

Wrong. Company does not get points and driver does not get points. Same scenario happened with me. Verbal speed warning with level II.

2 months later, Company checked theirs and mine. Clean inspection noted but no points were resultant from it.

Speeding was noted as reason for stop/inspection. But no mention of 5 over, just that it was speeding. This was Oregon. Maybe other states are different but I doubt it since we're talking about a federal program.

 

Yeah well the way I see it is a warning still counts as a violation, not the other way around.

Semi truck professional drivers account for 2.4 percent of all accidents on US roads and around 80% of those are the FAULT of the passenger car.

CSA NEEDS A REFORM NOW !

 

You know how all the non-trucking experts know better than anyone. Its like control tower telling the pilot how to fly the airplain

 

He said it was listed on the inspection report for speeding which is why I responded. If it's listed on the inspection as a warning and doesn't count against his CSA, that's news to me and I'm happy for him.Maybe the difference is yours was verbal? Maybe I'm wrong, just going by what I found.

Ok I thought about it. Certain states like mine don't need a reason to perform a DOT inspection so they wouldn't list speeding unless it was a violation. The officer was probably noting it to cover his probable cause, and in this case it wouldn't count for points. I stand corrected.

 

If the company gave your “score”, they created it not CSA. CSA does not rate drivers.

 

Nope, CSA has never rated drivers. That’s a myth that many including some companies have perpetuated.

https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/CSA_Dispatch_042011.pdf read Hot Topics With Industry in the lower right corner. This from 2011.

New Online Resource Center: “ We need yourhelp to communicate the following facts to carriers anddrivers to help set the record straight!•CSA does not rate drivers or issue a compositedriver or carrier “score.” Carriers or private vendorsmay issue “scorecards,” but FMCSA does not issueor endorse these.•CSA does not directly impact a driver’s CDL.”

https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/DriverInfoforCarriers.pdf

More recent read the upper right, last sentence.

“It is important to clarify that CSA does not rate individual CMV drivers.”

Unless there is a carrier intervention individual drivers aren’t looked at under CSA.