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Sichterman. If a carrier owns rights to other e-learning courses, "we try to be receptive to other training" and can integrate those into the system. J.J. Keller & Associates itself offers PSP reports as a service to carriers. Keller's new PSP program tabulates violation severity weighting points that would contribute to the carrier's CSA rankings if a prospective driver were driving for the company today, says Cory Puuri, senior business development manager. Such provision of a statistical metric of a driver's PSP appears to be what happened to Jez when he was told his CSA score was 300. That was likely a time- and severity-weighted aggregation of his report data. Such tools aren't intended to rank within a driver peer group, but rather to provide an independent number of points represented by the violations on a PSP. Jez, counting up the basic severity weights of his PSP, came to only 46 points. The key to understanding how the carrier got to 300 is in the time weighting. FMCSA's internal Driver SMS methodology specifies violations within the last year are multiplied by three, those in the second most recent year by two. Out-of-service violations then add points to each weight that also are multiplied if they took place within the last two years. In December, Jez reported having found a potential lessor. That carrier, Texas-based RoadMasters Transport, "takes a different view of the PSP," he noted – one he felt was more suited to the reality that an incoming driver's prior violations don't contribute to the new carrier's CSA score. RoadMasters currently has no rankings in any of the CSA BASICs above the intervention threshold level, an indication that they've gotten their compliance operation in shape. Two of the carriers that denied Jez a lease, however, had three rankings above intervention thresholds in the SMS Results database. Such carriers are likely to view a driver with a pattern of inspection violations, for whatever rea- son, to be too great a risk. Just as carriers will do their homework on a prospective driver, drivers should do their own before applying for a lease or job at a carrier to mitigate unknowns and lofty expectations. In March, CSA's DATA TRAIL PART 2 Inspection patterns by state For over 20 years, Fitzgerald Truck Sales has been the largest glider kit dealer in the country. We have refined our production of gliders into a steady enterprise, which earned us the name of "The Glider Kit Specialist". The added savings of the fuel efficient rebuilt 12.7 Liter Detroit 60 series are very substantial with an average of 6.8 - 7.5 MPG. What's a Glider Kit? A glider kit is a completed chassis purchased without an engine and transmission. We then install a custom built pre-emission engine and remanufactured transmission to create the ultimate truck! What are the Benefits? •Our price averages 25-35% below MSRP of a new comparable truck • More fuel efficient, Lower maintenance cost, Less downtime • 3 year/300k nationwide engine warranty • 1 year standard nationwide transmission warranty, 3 year available • Daimler and GE financing available LOWER YOUR EXPENSES INCREASE YOUR PROFITS! SALES (866) 553-0369 www.fitzgeraldgliderkits.com 752 Interstate Lane • Crossville, TN 38571 Text INFO to 205-289-3555 or visit www.ovdinfo.com February 2013 | Overdrive | 33