Complaints and Concerns
Data contained in CSA will affect drivers and carriers by assigning high scores for such things as accidents that might have been unavoidable and no fault of a driver. Steve Niswander, Vice President of safety for Groendyke Transport, stated in an interview with Big Truck TV such concerns.
A driver can have a bad score, yet be a great driver. If, for example, a car driven by a drunk driver crosses the median and hits the truck head-on, causing the death of both the driver and their passenger, you have an alcohol-involved accident with two fatalities. That will go on the driver’s CSA 2010 record and it will blow their score clean out of the water through no fault of their own. That won’t be corrected until the driver or carrier challenges the score with the FMCSA. But if you don’t know that and you’re just looking at raw numbers, you can really make some bad assumptions.
Read more about this topic: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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