I had an opportunity to talk with a safety director at a trucking company in one of the CSA 2010 test states yesterday. The company is now enduring their second intervention since October of last year. The second intervention is an on-site inspection and still underway in its second week! "It's not a friendly environment" is what I was told as the company has also incurred many thousands of dollars of fines since entering the test.
There is a lot of confusion out there about how all of this works, even the inspectors are unable to describe exactly how many of the components actually work. There are concerns about the fairness of some of the rules.
A few things I took from the conversation were, this CSA 2010 initiative IS GOING TO HAPPEN and it will affect everyone. Although the drivers will be given a safety score under CSA 2010, the major emphasis still appears to be on the carrier. Carriers will be paying more in fines than before. There is more to come and much training that needs to be done.
My advice is to start today doing everything you can to train your employees and drivers to avoid interventions, because once you have an intervention there will be more to follow.
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What is CSA 2010
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is developing a new operational model through its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) initiative. The goal of CSA 2010 is to develop and implement more effective and efficient ways for FMCSA, its state partners, and the trucking industry to reduce commercial motor vehicle (CMV) crashes, fatalities, and injuries. CSA 2010 will help FMCSA and its state partners to impact the safety behavior of more carriers and drivers, use continually improving data to better identify high-risk carriers and drivers, and apply a wider range of interventions to reduce high-risk behavior.
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