What is my csa score?

You could have 50 PSP points or more after 4 violations. There’s a site to get the values of each violation. I don’t have it in front of me.

 

Regardless, small things like you've mentioned wont keep you from working. Just put in applications to any company that seems interesting and call back in a week to check on the app. Now, surely the top tier companies might pass on you.

Be honest like you were in your post. If they ask about your violations, or if there is any extra space on the application for comments, let them know you made some rookie mistakes and have learned from them. From my experience managers arent too worried about small violations if you own up to them. If you start crying about how you were setup, they are usually not big fans.

The big offenses that could potentially end your career are roll overs, DUI/DWI, and at fault fatal accidents. And even then, there are small companies in the depths of craigslist that will hire people with those. But it sounds like you just had some hiccups when starting out. Everyone has those, maybe not 4 in the first year haha, but you just have to stay clean now.

 

Hand, that's a hell of a body of work for only 1 year. I'm actually not concerned about the brake inspections because today's average driver don't do proper pre-trips much anymore anyway, this shows up with the inoperative turn signal. What really is making me want to do head turning made popular in the movie the exorcist is that running over a sign! What in the name of heck were you doing? At this point you don't need to be concerned about CSA. You are in dire need of remedial training in proper pre trips and maintaining your lane!

 

Sometimes things do happen in a short period of time. I had a brake chamber spring a leak while I was driving. I only drive each trailer 50-60 miles, and load 2 trailers in the course of a day. It was not leaking when I left the yard. Thing can change quickly sometimes.

I only had a few miles left when I heard a hissing, knew I had a leak did not know where. I watch my air pressure gauges and they were good. Drove it the rest of the way to the shop and they installed a new chamber. Sometimes it passes pretrip but develops a problem while driving.

My route is local and is setup to drive around where the dot lurks. Im fine with that.

 

Trailer was not hissing like that when I left

 

PSP Scores - 8 Facts You Need to Know

Check Your CSA Score/PSP Record

5 Things to Consider When Reviewing PSP Data - Vigillo

Pre-Employment Screening Program - What You'll Need

https://www.glostone.com/2016/10/20/whats-psp-report-heres-drivers-carriers-use-advantage/

The last link is an article that itself has a link for you to download a PDF file with the FMCSA methodology for calculating points.

 

here is/are the exact pages you need, scroll down to page 49, to get started.

https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMSMethodology.pdf


looks like you have...33 PSP against you...

now for your information, MANY companies have a cut off PSP for drivers, and you're fired.

my company alone has a 60 point fire the driver point....

so be VERY careful. yes you "may" get another job, all depending on THAT company's firing point.....

depending on exact date you got each set of points, after the first year, THOSE particular points drop by 1 third. the second year they drop off the next third, the 3rd year they are single point (so like in your case, you have 6 points on the tail light now, the 2nd year, it'll be 4 points. the 3rd year it'll be 2 points. the 4th year, they are gone.)

 

Was it this sign by chance?

 

PSP’s don’t show any scores. They just list the violations for the past 3 years and accidents for the past 5 years.

Companies are not mandated to even use the PSP. And even if they do the driver must still give their consent. Failure to give consent will probably eliminate you for a job but drivers do have that right to refuse.

To sum it up, the PSP is like a credit check. And it’s used like a credit check. It also falls under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. So check it for accuracy. If you’ve had CDLs from different states, pull the PSP using all of your previous CDL numbers.