CSA2010.fmca.dot.gov

[ConfusedMuse]

So fellow drivers....
Who has taken the test? Have you looked at the new regulations that will go into effect next year? Have you finally decided that perhaps your worth a heck of alot more than 1.00 a mile, or less? That your tired of being treated like a lower than low class citizen?
That you perform a very worthwhile contribution to society, that deserves a whole lot more respect, and to be adequately rewarded in $$$$$ NOT cents! That seriously most people in society, and this sadly includes our dispatchers have not one iota what goes into getting freight from point A to point B safely.

We need to stand together, because if one Police Officer, DOT Inspector, Law Enforcement Personel stops you, and gives you a Citation for anything, or an OOS violation it will follow you for 3 years, and any Carrier can check you out! HELLO BIG BROTHER!

Is your dispatcher followed like this? Does the fool that cut you off, care that you swerved into a ditch to avoid hitting him care? Does the reciever that wanted his freight give a rat's a$$ that you drove slowly because weather conditions were less that perfect? Does the dispatcher pitch a ***** cause you accepted the load, then had vehicle breakdown that safely prevented you from taking the load, and they are more worried about their stats, than your safety????
The list of people that truly care about you is sadly really short, unless of course your a fast breeding rabbit

 

[greg334]

Confused,
I took part of one conference call yesterday and going to be on one this afternoon on the CSA 2010 with an FMCSA rep and some carrier owners. I have no clue why I was invited, I was three professional drivers.

I brought up three points that should be addressed by the FMCSA first but seem to be forgotten;

The driver has no control over the carrier access to records for that driver within that carrier, a system where corrections are documented to limit abuse and process for the driver to fight any violations that lack proof (which there are too many gray areas that open the driver up to abuse).

There was an intense discussion over the need for proper and documentation for carrier training when making any attempts to correct behavior - for example if the driver has a number of problems with logging, the burden for correcting this issue should be on the company, not the driver because the company may or may not allow the driver access to the log auditing process reports for corrections in reasonable time. That issue was also brought up, I had a problem where my company didn't inform me that I was missing 3 weeks of logs that never got through when it was sent in by trip pak, they were being lost but the other paper work did make it. I didn't have any means to find out if those logs were recieved at all because the carrier sent them out to the auditors first than bringing them inhouse.

I also brought up the problem of securing loads and opening up interpetation of the regs by LEOs who have not been trained to determine what is a proper securing. I used a coupel examples from personal experince, but added that the condition of the equipement (shoring bars that are beat up but functional) with untrained LEOs may be an issue. Each of the points were brought up from person experience.

I opened with the problem that the CSA 2010 is supposed to solve won't be solved because the FMCSA is failing to look at training and preventive measures, not post problem corrective measures, it is a step backwards when most of the safety and accident problems seemswas part to be based on poor training or reinforcing bad driving behaviors.

The question that keeps popping up is the reasoning that this will raise our pay - not a chance from the attitudes I faced on that first call.

Oh and for those van drivers, seeing many of you have this attitude that you are special, I threw in that the below 10k exemption needs to be eliminated because vans present a problem for trucks ...

Just kidding van guys....