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What is CSA 2010?
It is a new approach to monitoring carriers and driver’s safety performance by utilizing information obtained during roadside inspections.
Will this change the regulations?
As of now there are no changes in regulations, just a different approach on how carrier’s and driver’s safety assessments will be determined.
Which carriers are affected by the CSA 2010?
Any interstate carrier that is required to have a USDOT Number, including intrastate carriers required by their home state of registration, if that state requires the carrier to file as a registrant.
My company is not a cargo or freight hauler. We use vehicles over 10,001 lbs GVWR to transport supplies we use to perform our work. Are we going to be under CSA 2010?
Yes, It does not matter what you do, but what you drive. Any vehicle driven interstate over 10,001 lbs or greater is a commercial motor vehicle and is covered under 49 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations). You will be monitored by CSA 2010.
Our company only has one truck. Are we covered by CSA 2010?
Yes. Any company that operates any amount of vehicles interstate over 10,001 lbs GVWR is covered under CSA 2010.
What items will be covered under CSA 2010?
There are seven items covered under CSA 2010. These items are classified as BASICs. BASIC stands for Behavioral Analysis Safety Improvement Categories.
The 7 categories under BASICs are:
Will CSA 2010 do away with out of service violations?
No. Out of service violations will still be enforced. CSA 2010 however, will assess the importance of violations as their relevance to causing a crash involving a Commercial Motor Vehicle.
Will there still be a SAFE-STAT type data source to monitor activities of a motor carrier?
CSA 2010 will maintain its own data information website to monitor activities. Safe-Stat will cease when CSA 2010 goes on-line full-time.
When will CSA 2010 go into effect?
CSA 2010 is scheduled to go into full effect by mid-summer 2010.
What is the difference between the current system and CSA 2010?
The main difference is that the current system of monitoring carriers is based solely on an Onsite Inspection (audit). With over 700,000 U.S. DOT registered carriers, it is almost impossible to monitor all carriers and only about 12% are contacted. CSA 2010 will give Safety Officials the opportunity to contact more companies and monitor driver’s safety standards better.
Will the information gathered by roadside inspections under CSA 2010 determine if the U.S. DOT will audit me?
The purpose is to intervene with the carrier long before it gets to a point of an audit or shutting the carrier down.
What kind of intervention will the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration use to notify a carrier of serious violations?
The intervention program under CSA 2010 will consist of:
Will current data on my company be used for CSA 2010?
Yes. Carrier information for the past 24 months will be transferred over for use. Driver information from the past 36 months will be used to develop a database on the driver.
Will I still be rated as a Satisfactory, Conditional or Unsatisfactory Carrier? The new rating system will change the current Safety Fitness Determination to a better monitored Safety Management System that will use immediate data gathered by roadside inspections as they occur, instead of acute and critical violations compiled and discovered during an Onsite Audit. The proposed change will be labeled as Fit, Marginal, or Unfit to operate.
What is the difference between the current Onsite Investigation (audit) and a Focused or Comprehensive Onsite Intervention?
The current system uses gathered data found at the carrier’s location in all areas of compliance. Focused means that if you are deficient in any of the seven BASIC areas, the Federal Government will focus on the one area of non-compliance to improve this area and that a letter or non-Onsite intervention has not been accomplished. Comprehensive Onsite is the most similar to the current system and will focus on the carriers over all compliance.
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