Potential hazard and CSA points at risk, what should I do??

I'm going guess that you aren't a qualcomm cheater and that you only turn off your engine when you are parked? Trucks without power steering (or with weaker power steering systems) used to come with larger steering wheels to give you more leverage. They also had more gear reduction (it took more turns of the steering wheel to go from lock to lock). But you can still turn the steering wheel with a modern truck.

If you are stationary it will be very, very hard to turn the wheel, but you should not be turning the steering wheel when stationary anyway -- doing so just scrubs off rubber from your tires and heats up your power steering fluid. If you are rolling at all, turning the wheel is much easier and the faster you are going, the less effort required.

 

Take a look at my attached PSP report in post # 22 in this thread. It shows a violation for a cracked frame (dry van trailer door frame). It was an automatic OOS according to the inspector's computer system, but the inspector overrode it and let me slide because in actuality the problem didn't rise to the level of requiring an immediate OOS order. It did, however, allow me enough leverage to push the owner to repair the problem that I had brought to his attention weeks prior to this inspection.

 

The image link is not showing on my end. Mind uploading it again, pls??

 

This is whats showing on my end...

 

Look at the job ads for trimac Transportation and Ashley distribution, as an example. Part of the qualifications are to have low CSA or PPS scores. Not your company, you, the driver.

 

Where did you get that document from? That is NOT a PSP Detailed Report from the FMSCA.

If you read the note at the bottom, to paraphrase, they use their 'best effort' calculations to come up with a Driver CSA score. However, the FMSCA still does not give Drivers a score. Is Vigillo the new HireRight?

The DOT of any state may be able to see a drivers PSP Detailed Report, I still have not seen one with a score on it.

ETA: Vigillo is a 3rd party company that uses SMS Methodology to calculate a Driver's Score, to the best of thier ability. The FMSCA still does not score drivers. If they do, it is not available to the driver or the motor carrier.

 

We don't have Qualcomm....I can Idle all I want, the boss trust us to save money when we can. And if it is cool outside I will shutdown, if it is too hot or too cold...I do what I have to inorder to sleep.

Your answer is not convincing...


I drive a modern truck 2015 KW 600, The steering system is designed to be operated with the pump fully functional. In the event that it fails, there will be 90 percent loss of steering, good enough to get you to the side of the road, as in Engine Failure when Driving up the Big Hills in WV. Once the vehicle is stopped, forget about trying to turn it manually...I have tried, at best a driver could move the wheel only when the vehicle is in motion, but to actually make left and right hand turns is virtually impossible with out the hydraulics...

 

No, not really but I've given up trying to educate you people.

 

So several DOT officers in several states all lied to me? And the myriad of companies are lying in their job ads saying you need a clean csa score?

Do you understand how science works?