...CSA 2010 is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce commercial motor vehicle (CMV)-related crashes, injuries and fatalities. It introduces a new enforcement and compliance model that allows FMCSA and its State partners to contact a larger number of carriers earlier in order to address safety problems before crashes occur. When the program is fully rolled out by the end of 2010, FMCSA will have a new nationwide system for making the roads safer for motor carriers and the public alike! (Source)
To recap my situation, the following is a note I sent to AskTheTrucker on HubPages because, at the end of his HubPage, he says "We are setting up a Blog Talk Radio show with the FMCSA to discuss CSA 2010 in April":
My family and friends are angry at Whatagreatguy for leading me on for so long, but nothing that happens in this business suprises me anymore. Don't get wrong - I was absolutely shocked when he first told me - especially when he said it was because of my tickets for not wearing a seatbelt. But I don't think Whatagreatguy strung me along intentionally. Or maybe he did - in case they needed a qualified driver on the spur of the moment, or something.
Whatever the case, it doesn't matter now, and there's no point in being angry or hurt about it. I'm still grateful for the many times they went out of their way to help me when I needed to get home, etc. Above all, I don't want to burn any bridges....
I'd never heard of CSA 2010 or a federal level rating system for drivers, but I don't think the government's focus is to make sure truck drivers wear seatbelts. I still need to do a lot of research, but from AskTheTrucker's article and comments (I hope you will read the entire page):
The new program focuses on driver enforcement for serious rule violations, such as:
• Driving while disqualified
• Driving without a valid commercial driver’s license
• Making a false entry on a medical certificate
• Committing numerous Hours-of-Service violations
And there's this:
Roadside inspections with violations will be offset through a normalizing effect in the formula for determining the driver score. In a simple explanation it will average the points over all inspections to include good inspections.It seems to me that, of all the things that I could'ave been written up for, not wearing a seatbelt is the least of anybody's worries. At any rate, tomorrow I've got to get a copy of my MVR and DAC report, and start all over again. Tomorrow I've got to start looking for another job.
