How do insurance rates react to csa points?

I recently joined a very small carrier, by bailing out one of their o.o. who got ill and cannot drive to his fullest capacity. So, I'll drive the truck for foreseeable future, at least until further resolution, but I hate to cause a problem like that. I've gotten a roadside dot inspection and the only violation was me not wearing a seat belt. 7 csa points or whatever. Does it matter comes the renewal time?

 

OK. So that's not something quantified by numbers but the underwriters' discretion?
No, I wasn't handed a regular ticket that you can take to a traffic court and fight it. It was a dot inspection report with that as a discovered violation only.

Without going into the discussion of the merits of wearing seatbelts and how they saves lives, it is then no different than any other violations they can put there on the sheet like HOS violation, brakes, or moving violations?

 

I called the agent. He called the underwriter to find out that they care about moving violations, when considering a driver to be OK or not. Claims and accidents; at fault or not, is what the determining factors are.

 

Maybe if it were a repetitive pattern plus other b.s. in addition to a nasty accident, they would drop the driver but these non egregious violations are immaterial by themselves unless you got too many of them in a short time.