The New CSA 2010 rules can end your carer !

you may be able to get those tickets reduced, that is NOT the problem....the problem that comes is the PSP points will NOT go away, as you will not be able to reduce those, unless you go up to file a complaint with the DOT on this...you will need a whole lot of stuff at your readiness to fight that. i suggest you go to the CSA website and read all that you need to do...otherwise, sadly for you, those 63 points stay with you..

i even forgot the speeding warning when i added up your points, but you violate 2 different CSA Basics, so for the log book, you violated 2, and for the speeding, you violated another, but yes, the total against you, and you alone is 63 points.

you later went on to say that maybe someday if this happed to any of us, we would change our opinions....maybe so....but let's go back to what we are SUPPOSED to be, and that is, PROFESSIONAL drivers, where we ARE HELD to a higher standard, and if anyone of us get's nailed like you did, then it was deserved....

i mean, one cannot disobey the laws, rules, regulations and cry foul when caught....you signed up for this job, you knew the consequences of your actions.

on the one hand you said your company was good, the employees were good, but here you are complaining that they suspend you two..

you can't have it both ways...if they are as good as you say, then you would not have said, "they didn't give a rat's *** that you did what you did, but got caught"...when all you should have said was, "well they had to do what they had to do".....this makes you sound bitter you got what you deserved.....and washes away anything you claim was "good about them".....

i wish you (and your wife) well, but you are screwed for a while, or maybe some mom & pop place will hire you, but frankly, YOU DID THIS, and thankfully you admitted it, but you're still crying about it, thinking that it was too harsh.....(at least i DO agree on the long suspension) but you did what you did, now you must suffer your transgression's after you broke the rules, laws, regulations...

 

The point totals are for the company's safety record. As I understand it, the PSP will only show the infractions - a minor distinction. If you pull your PSP say at the end of April, the FMCSA should have updated it by then, so you can see what's there. At least they claim they're that efficient.

Even if you prevail in court and get the charges dismissed, the FMCSA may not agree to take this off of your record. You can use the DATA-Q process, but it will go back to the FMCSA and the state cop. They don't have to agree. I see constituational issues here, but that's me.

I agree, in the short-term, there are going to be companies that will overreact. That will cost some people their jobs. Until the whole system sorts itself out, there will be this overreaction until the carriers see how the enforcement regieme works out. I believe my carrier would send you to log class for this, and warn you not to do it again.

Good luck...

 

The company never cared Larry ! Where have you been ? Somebody tell you they did? No sir, you are a tool to be used, if you fail then I know where I can get 10,000 more just like you. Just about any carrier will put you out with the trash in a heart beat bud.

This has to be all about you from now on....no company man, no suck arse. The attitude has to be stone cold. There's only one CDL and there's 10,000 carriers, just like them. That load hot is it? Dispatch should have planned better. The load gets there when I can get it there legally or they can "call in so and so" "he can do it"

63 points is not the end.....my guy will hire up to 85. Problem is you have no room for any other stops. One stop and your margin is wiped out but....you will look much better ( score ) in 6 mos. if the lawyer can't fix it.

What I don't get is why did you roll past the nearest safe haven? I get the sick, tired wife thing. I probably would have done the same but going past? that is on you.

 

All good points Chalupa. Also there are proper channels of action to take for any and all scenarios one may encounter on the road..the number one rule in any situation is CYA..period. I know this is a little late and may be redundant but the only way to have handled that run would have been to call dispatch and tell 'em whats going on with her sick and sitting on the shoulder and all. This is something thats going to bite more h/w teams in the butt.. if they're not more careful .

 

People and uneducated company's look at the points incorrectly most of the time.
The points do not cross basics. So this is not worse than a failed drug test. No matter how they want to pretend that the points are all the same.

Your company over reacted. And I am guessing they were already up the creek under CSA for pushing drivers to cheat on logs.

 

I totally agree with you, the company did over react. If we could find out who the company was we could look up their safety rating, probably find that it is pretty bad....hence their reaction to the O/P.

 

If you are suspended, you are not fired. How long is the suspension?



As far as what you did, it happens. You have to live with it.

 

Florida will not approve your Unemployment.

Appeal it, you'll be approved..............

95% of the time.................