Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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Drivers' top 10 problems with CSA SOURCE: Overdrive's 2014 CSA Survey in March yielded results from 718 respondents, among them company drivers, leased owner-operators and independents, both operators and small fleets, running under their own authority. Scoring is unreliable for very small fleets Driver/law enforcement relationship deteriorating DataQs challenge process still does not take into account whether a citation was adjudicated in court Crash fault/accountability not considered in Crash Indicator BASIC scoring State-to-state disparities in inspections/violations Scores don't correlate to true crash risk in some BASIC categories Carriers don't get credit for "pre-screen" or unfinished, otherwise clean, inspections Brokers/shippers use scores as a reason to refuse business Large majority of the smallest carriers, being unscored, often viewed negatively Safety-score competition among carriers reduces sharing of best safety practices 37% 34% 34% 29% 28% 22% 19% 15% 9% 4% 44 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | JULY 2014 Small guys get looked at because a single incident shows up as a bigger percentage" with a more dramatic eff ect on rankings, says a survey respondent, "not because we are unsafe. Todd Dills