Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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22 | Overdrive | May 2014 22 | Overdrive | June 2014 Should carriers' CSA SMS percentile rankings (scores) be removed from public view? Source: OverdriveOnline.com poll No 27% Yes 70% And also remove all inspection/ violation data from public view 32% And also remove only inspection/ violation data that has no proven relationship to crash risk 28% But keep all inspection/violation data publicly accessible 10% I don't know 3% 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% 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% 37% 34% 34% 34% 34% 29% 29% 28% 28% 22% 22% 19% 19% 15% 15% 9% 9% 4% 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% Todd Dills Should carriers' CSA SMS percentile rankings (scores) CSA SMS percentile rankings (scores) CSA SMS percentile be removed from rankings (scores) be removed from rankings (scores) public view? Source: OverdriveOnline.com poll No 27% Yes 70% And also remove all inspection/ violation data from public view 32% And also remove only inspection/ violation data that has no proven relationship to crash risk 28% But keep all inspection/violation data publicly accessible 10% I don't know 3% Should carriers' CSA SMS percentile rankings (scores) be removed from public view? Source: OverdriveOnline.com poll No 27% Yes 70% And also remove all inspection/ violation data from public view 32% And also remove only inspection/ violation data that has no proven relationship to crash risk 28% But keep all inspection/violation data publicly accessible 10% I don't know 3% CSA_0614.indd 22 6/3/14 10:27 AM