The FMCSA is changing the CSA methodology to prioritize enforcement on carriers that are most indicative of a crash potential.
In a nutshell:
The BASICs will be gone and replaced with Safety Categories. The severity levels will be changed - 1 or 2 based on if it is an OOS violation or not. Focus will also be changed so that those violations that the driver should have identified at the pre-trip level (eg light out) are separated from those that should be regular maintenance. The almost 1000 roadside violations will be consolidated to just over 100 similar violations so that multiple similar violations will report as one item (example 3 separate violations for lights out will consolidate at one entry).
This is quite a restructure and hopefully it will result in higher enforcement for some carriers and less enforcement for good carriers. You can read all about it at the link below. Carriers can log in to view their score with the new system.
In a nutshell:
The BASICs will be gone and replaced with Safety Categories. The severity levels will be changed - 1 or 2 based on if it is an OOS violation or not. Focus will also be changed so that those violations that the driver should have identified at the pre-trip level (eg light out) are separated from those that should be regular maintenance. The almost 1000 roadside violations will be consolidated to just over 100 similar violations so that multiple similar violations will report as one item (example 3 separate violations for lights out will consolidate at one entry).
This is quite a restructure and hopefully it will result in higher enforcement for some carriers and less enforcement for good carriers. You can read all about it at the link below. Carriers can log in to view their score with the new system.
CSA Prioritization Preview - Home
csa.fmcsa.dot.gov
