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Feature Article: Maximum exposure

January 1, 2010

| by: Todd Dills

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 has some carriers and drivers wondering how drastically it’s going to change their profession. The program seeks to change the model for compliance from a sort of housecleaning approach tied to compliance reviews to one that uses real-time, on-the-road inspection results to determine carrier and, eventually, driver safety scores.

CSA 2010 could carry ramifications in the areas of employment screening and background checks, pay packages, hiring and firing, CDL certification, marketing of carrier services, ongoing in-house training and more. It certainly will bring all drivers into a new role where they will be held directly accountable for their own and their companies’ rigs’ performance during inspection, says Jet Express Safety Director Jeff Davis. “It’s the first time in trucking ever that a [company] driver has been held accountable for his actions on the roadside during inspection.”

Says Jay Thompson, president of Transportation Business Associates, “The key thing the truck driver will need to know is that this is an additional system that will be following your moves — and following your license.”

A great deal of the data being collected for the statistical models is driver-related. Of the seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories, or BASICs, five are all about driver performance.

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4 Comments

Chuck Berry says:

January 30, 2010 at 10:30 pm

I am just wondering;with the horrible economy the government has placed us all in,what would they do if the shoe was on the other foot? People need to really wake up WITHOUT TRUCKING THIS COUNTRY WOULD STOP!! Company drivers are just that;they can only tell their supervisor about a problem, they can not make them fix it!! Therefore how can the driver be held responsible for the companies equipment? The bottom line is like always the working man keeps on working and the rich keep getting richer.

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john trucker says:

March 20, 2010 at 1:54 pm

our goverment is geting into our pocketts even deper every day to take more of the working man money with more regulations and fines and trying to put the owner /operator out buisness,they want J.B. , swift ect. so the DOT has total control over all trucking.they need robots but they cant fine them and make money off them.and drug @alcahol testing,what a person does on their on time is not an employer or goverments buisness,just because its in your system doesnt mean you are under the influiness,and if you are not in the trucking industry you dont know enough to be making any laws to govener it.

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Jason Durand says:

March 31, 2010 at 8:11 pm

I think this rule is jusy screwing with drivers that need a job.The Government is trying to control what truck driver is doing, when none of them have been behind a wheel of a truck. If it wasn’t for Truck Drivers, America would shut down. Unless they think Walmart is going to come to their rescue, of course Walmart is another issue. and we don’t want to go there. I guess our Goverment is taking lesson from the Russians and how to control a person thoughts and their freedom.

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lynn griggs says:

April 23, 2010 at 9:20 pm

The biggest problem I see with this is the roadside and scale inspections. Dot inspectors in Ohio have quotas, I don’t care how perfect your truck is an inspector with a quota is going to find something. What happens when an inspector claims you have a violation but you don’t agree? What trucker has the time or money to argue or prove their case?

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