The New CSA 2010 rules can end your carer !

To Rerun8963, I'm not sure if it's me or you but for some reason we are seeing things differently. You quoted above, "but you were upset the company did it, but you also agree they had to do it..???"
Of course I was upset the company did what they did. But I do not agree they had to do it. I said I understand why they did it. Understanding why is not agreeing with! I feel the company could have taken another course of action. For example probation for 12 months. I feel that would have served the same purpose. Yes they were upset with me for adding to their already bad safety rating but in their defense I guess they felt protecting the company from a DOT fine on a safety review was higher on the latter than loyalty to a employee, even when the employees involved had done a good job for the company for 6 years and had a clean driving record. Again, this is understanding why, but not necessarily agreeing with.

There seems to be some confusion on the points. Here's how it works. The points will go on my PSP and will be there for 3 years. The points will go on the companies safety rating and will be there for 2 years. Now when I go to a new company the points on my PSP will follow me but the points will not go to the new companies safety rating, they will stay with the old company. In other word the points follow the driver but will not jump from company to company.

Here's what this all boils down to. I broke a law. I got caught. I got suspended from my job. I do feel the cop could have been a little more understanding and only wrote one ticket instead of 2 citations and a warning. Can I blame the cop? No I can't he was only doing his job and it wasn't his fault I did something wrong. That's on me. But be it right or wrong I can't help feeling upset that because of the cop's lack of understanding and compassion for writing me 2 citations and a warning instead of writing just 1 citation cost my job and my wife's job. What is really hard to get past is he pulled me over under false pretenses. He said I was speeding is why he pulled me over. That was impossible!! The speed limit was 65, my cruse control was set at 65 and my truck had a governor that was set at 65 and it was flat ground, not down hill. He was targeting trucks using the excuse of speeding. I will bet you this though. Under the same circumstances if I had been going the same speed and had not been able to tell him my truck was governed at 65 I would have gotten a speeding ticket instead of a warning ticket. This cop was out to write tickets he just got lucky when he stopped me. You can't blame a man for doing his job but you can be upset with him for how he does his job.

The same pretty much holds true with the company. Under the CSA rules I can understand why they felt they had to protect the company. But I can't help being upset that after 6 years of dedication and loyalty to the company they showed no loyalty to us. They suspended us for 12 months, now I don't know about any of you but not many people can wait out 12 months. I feel 12 months probation would have served the same purpose. They put us out of the truck in Kansas with no offer to help us get home. We live in Florida! We had too much stuff in the truck to put on a plane so I have to rent a mini van which cost me including the gas about $650. Now when we get home not only are we out of a job we are almost broke.

It was not my intention to cry about the cop or the loss of my job. I only told you about all of this to give you the story about what happened to us. Like I stated before I broke the law. That's on me and it is something I will have to live with, at least for the next three years. I can only hope I can find a company willing to hire us with these points. Also I am hoping the lawyer can get the charges reduced to a lesser charge so the fine won't be as high. I am still facing these fines with no job to pay for them.

My sole intentions for starting this thread was to let everyone know about the new CSA rules and what they can do to you. I blame myself for breaking the law but I blame the CSA for putting my wife and I out of a job and making it extremely hard to find another.

 

To Jeddomike, There was no reason to suspend my wife except we were teams. She did not get any violations, citations or warnings.