light of CSA 2010 rules what should a company do to retain qulified drivers?

There is one flaw in your logic, new drivers have no csa score. So most of the big companies just take a new driver, pay him crap for a year, then if they stay good, if they leave the co got their moneys worth. If the driver is a problem find a reason to terminate. Now for companies looking for good experienced drivers, that is a whole nother thing.

 

Since it is accident/ inspection based new or old drivers really mean nothing other than a drivers PSP giving the company an idea of the drivers attention to detail, and rigidity in equipment.


Yeah CSA will give drivers the opportunity to glimpse the management practices through the SMS, a driver should hire their company not the other way around.


Further any company wanting to make actual improvements will do whatever it takes to keep drivers without accidents, and with clean inspections while penalizing or discharging those who can not. Same as brokers and shippers are doing to carriers now.


So yeah I think conditions will improve(and are at my company your payscale is directly tied to inspections) as the paradigm shifts towards drivers running compliant, safe vehicles.

 

True, but when a driver is terminated their score goes with them. But I see your point. I'm hoping after some more time otr my good psp will help me get with a better company. I was an employer and I know the value of good employees.

 

The driver has no "score" to take with them. Once an inspection or accident is entered it is there for two years. Hiring in new people will not lower any of the points from those entries only clean inspections and reviews can.

Now a company can look at a PSP to judge prospective emloyee's but they can have no effect on the companies SMS until hired and inspected/accident.

 

First off, we are going to have to wait and see what happens here with the enforcement on this. And that is also what the companies are going to be doing. Believe me, they will not change unless forced to.

It is just like all the environmental stuff that companies had to do. They just went on operating like they always had, and paid their fines, then took the tax "loss" on them as an operating expense. It wasn't until the government started actually putting some of these top people in jail, that they decided to get on board with the program. (Not defending the program here, just providing an example.)

I fully believe we will see the same thing with the trucking companies. We all know the current scenario of a trucking company being forced out of business. The owners just change the name of the company and start up all over again.

Until and unless they are shown that they can't get away with it, nothing is really going to change at the company level. Once again, all of the penalty is going to fall on the poor old driver who has screwed up.

 

They had a guy on one of the snooze the trucking newz a couple weeks back talking about changes to application for authority. Make it a more exploratory process of why your applying with some minimum standards like no previous Numbers.

Yeah I know LLC's and all. Sons daughter, second cousins applying........

But I agree with Big Don they need to shut a couple of companies down, maybe some jail time for serial offenders and then you'll get their attention.


I still say CSA is a good start. They just need some real teeth behind it. How much attention do you think those companies would pay if at an 80 percentile mark they had an automatic suspension of authority? Not provisional, or probationary flat suspension until a review(or the new buzz word intervention???? WTF are we treating drug addicts now?) Is conducted.

 

You are correct for small routine stuff like failed roadside inspections, fender benders and traffic violations.

However"red flag" violation do indeed follow the driver from one company to the next. If a Werner driver gets caught driving with a suspended license both he and Werner get points for this violation. If this driver then goes to Swift and is hired by them, Swift does inherit the driving while suspended points since this is among the red flag offenses.

 

I would like a link to that part please. First I have heard of that.