Effects of CSA 2010?

The only thing the CDL did was eliminate drivers from holding multiple licenses from different states.

 

Please support this statement with a copy/paste of a statement written by or found on an official website, that is lacking uncertain terms or generalizations. Or be guilty of the same " pervading our industry in particular and society in general. " with non-facts.

 

Exactly my point.
"CB LAND", truck stop talk,trucking executives, magazine articles, wherever you hear these ideas.And yes, I remember reading an article and being told that the CDL would seperate our driving offenses. Before your time. You admit we are hearing these claims, but they are not true. So we should believe this CSA 2010 is going to make it better ?

 

For the 2nd time

http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/FAQs.aspx?role=MC




How do I determine if a violation will count against a carrier or driver or both in the Safety Measurement System (SMS)?




The SMS uses all safety-based violations recorded during roadside inspections to evaluate safety. A list of these violations can be found in the Appendix A of the SMS Methodology document (http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/documents/SMSMethodology.pdf.) All of the violations in Appendix A count against the motor carrier. A subset of these violations is applied to evaluate driver safety in cases where the commercial motor vehicle driver is also responsible in part for the occurrence. This subset of violations is noted in the "Driver Responsible" column in Appendix A of the SMS Methodology document. The driver safety assessment tool in the SMS, at present, is only used by enforcement personnel who are conducting carrier investigations. The new tool enables safety investigators to focus on drivers with poor safety performance histories when they are investigating a carrier.




How does an investigation work?










The main purpose of every investigation is to ensure motor carriers and drivers are complying with the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). There are three types of investigations. Offsite investigations are conducted over the phone and through e-mail, fax and the mail. Onsite focused and onsite comprehensive investigations are conducted at a carrier's place of business.

The investigation process is similar regardless of whether it is offsite, onsite focused, or onsite comprehensive. A Federal or State Safety Investigator (SI) reviews a carrier's SMS data, the specific violations that compose the SMS, and the carrier's intervention history. Next, the SI interviews representatives from the carrier over the phone and/or in person and also reviews selected documents. The SI engages in these activities to examine the carrier's operations for compliance with FMCSRs and to determine, with the carrier's participation, the organizational process breakdowns that are triggering the carrier's safety violations. The SI will determine the appropriate follow-on intervention(s) (Notice of Claim/Notice of Violation and/or Cooperative Safety Plan). In addition, the SI will discuss with the carrier how they might improve their operations so that their deficient SMS scores will improve.







Now I'm done. Do your own homework.

Every answer to every question is available directly from the source of the program. If it isn't on there they have a submission process.

 

On the CDL thing.
In the beginning CDL was supposed to be a federal license. But it got watered down before it hit the streets. Because the states did not want to loose control of the licenses or the money that is spent on getting them.
So it ended up doing nothing more than doing what you said, making it hard to hold a license in more than one state.

Also, on the over weight violations thing. That was just changed like a month ago. Scores were scued bad in the load securement basic due to points on weight violations.
The FMCSA decided that since over weight trucks were not getting in more accidents, they took the points off of it.
So no points are assessed on weight violations at all now.

This is all I can find on it in the whats new stuff for August, for some reason my computer gets an error whenever I try and open links on that site.

Severity weights for some roadside inspection violations will be updated; and
The Agency will employ a more strategic approach to addressing motor carriers with a history of size and weight violations rather than counting these violations in the Cargo-Related BASIC; the new approach will include alerts to roadside inspectors when carriers have a history of size and weight violations.

 

http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMSMethodology.pdf


Updated 8/2010 and lacking a listing as CD said.

 

I thank you for your post and its insitefulness. Though it lacks the hard proof I was hoping for, the delivery, and the obvious omition of opinionated statements with a disired effect to serve up an unhealthy dose of inflamation, I find it to be fact based and informative. I'd read these very statements just days ago, but had a sinking feeling the carriers were at the bottom of it, but as you've pointed out, my gut was wrong. I like to be "right", and when I'm not right, I get on the side of "right" ASAP.

 

Where do you pull up the PSP report? I went to FMCSA official website and did not see it.

 

http://www.psp.fmcsa.dot.gov/Pages/default.aspx


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