This is important to you because it's a game-changer in how FMCSA regulates both Motor Carriers & Owner Operators. Starting July 1st, it will affect everyone with a CSL and/or a unit over 10,001 GVW.
CSA 2010 …What is it and how will it affect me?
This is important to you because it’s a game-changer in how FMCSA regulates both Motor Carriers & Owner Operators. Starting July 1st, it will affect everyone with a CSL and/or a unit over 10,001 GVW.
CSA 2010 stands for “Comprehensive Safety Analysis”, designed by FMCSA to ostensibly improve safety with an estimated elimination of 30% of 175,000 o the road today.
“The Safety Measurement System” is how they’ll track everyone in reviewing on-road safety performance of carriers & drivers to identify those they believe need interventions, resolve specific safety problems & to see what problems are improving or getting worse.
There’s a whole lot to this that can’t be summed up in a few paragraphs, but the gist of it is that every month, “SMS”will measure the previous 2 years of roadside violation and crash data and calculate a score in seven safety behavior areas called “B.A.S.I.C”s, that include Unsafe Driving, Fatigued Driving, Driver Fitness, Alcohol and Substance, Vehicle Maintenance, Loading/Cargo and Crash.
Violations are based on the relationship to crash risk, so your score for each BASIC depends on the number of adverse safety events, their severity and when they happened. Then you’re placed in a peer group of similar size or number of inspections. The score will be 1-100… 100 is bad.
The worse the score gets, the higher your chance for an “intervention” that can lead to “inspection”. These scores will then lead to “Continue Operations”, “Marginal” or “Unfit” ratings… I think you can figure out the rest.
There are currently 12,000 compliance audits per year. CSA 2010 plans on 175,000.
Please don’t shoot the messenger… I knew you’d all want to know!
