CSA question

What's vol? After reading some of the replies here I'm guessing that since a driver can pull his own score, a prospective company where a driver is looking to get hired on at will require him to either sign a release so the company can pull the driver's score or require the driver provide it himself.

This entire CSA thing seems just a tad too bureaucratic with confusion reigning supreme. Trying to decipher some of the information on the CSA website is as dry as reading the tax code.

 

Now I'm more confused than before. If a driver has a few violations from inspections (no fines or tickets, just simple violations such as a light out, etc.), he is still assigned points. I believe it's two points for a light out. Those points are multiplied by three for the first year, two for the second and after the third year they fall off completely. So a driver technically does have a point score with CSA from the way I understand it. Yea, confusion.

 

I'm familiar with the DAC and HireRight but drivers do get points via the CSA system separate from the CDL. http://www.whatiscsa.com/driver/

I'm still not grasping if carriers can access driver CSA points or "data" via the psp as my previous post and link indicates. It reads like carriers can access the data information regarding inspection violations and the such but not the actual accumulation of points, which makes no sense to me as if a carrier can access the data then the carrier can simply add up the point violations to sum up the total accumulation of points (shrug).