I'm a 20yr veteran of the road and cvsa has just put me out of a job. I've had absolutely no issues what-so-ever with tickets, accidents, or inspections until this year.
In January, Ohio gave me a level 3 roadside inspection. From that I got 2 warnings, one for speed, and one for log book not current, and one citation for no seatbelt. then in April i had another level 3 from Indiana. From that I got a warning for unauthorized passenger (companies fault) and 2 summons. One for speeding(which was dropped),and one for logbook not current...again.
So in the end I have 2 citations(1 for seatbelt and 1 for logbook)and 3 warnings. Just so you all know, warnings count against you on your cvsa driver score and that is something employers look at.
Its funny how these stupid little, minor infractions I got in the past 4 months can so easily erase 20 years of almost flawless driving.
Be careful out there
david bell - 13 years ago
the idiots in charge, thats right i said idiots, regulate an industry the know nothing about and make too many regulations that make our job difficult when it unnessary . if you have a bad driver then he needs to be taken out of the truck permanently and i am not talking about a driver that has been disqualified because of too many logbook violations or too many tickets because of a light out on avehicle or other infractions. there are too many drivers being disqualified for things like this that are just part of the job and have been made a so called safety issue when its not and it keeps them from being rehired. then you have a real safty issue where adriver has totalled out a truck and some one will just put him back in another truck. we should also over regulated laws that the dot have to live by and enforcement that fines them and disqualifies them from there job when they dont dot there i's and cross there t's. no this no more rediculious than what is being done to the truckers.
Yes, I think Uncle Sam needs to do everything they can to keep everybody safe. Anybody who goes to there factory job and works 8 hours should not be able to drive home, you now they are at a high stress point and tired . He or she may fall asleep driving home and into a playground full of kids. A family going on vacation driving long distance 8 hours later falls asleep at the wheel and into side of a big truck causing a big chain reaction ,…not good. The hour of service laws on the books right now have done what they were intended to do, all one has to do is look at accident stats of big trucks to see that, they are at the lowest rates they ever have been, by large numbers. These groups that are out there pushing for the dismantling of the trucking industry as we know it ,are not there to keep anybody safe or green ,except the green that goes into the pocket. The teamsters push for all this to happen is all about needing 3 trucks to do what 2 trucks did without a problem .., more dues to collect. Who cares about little guy out there who just seen a third of their income disappear . There is so much money out there against trucking in the name of safety, just ask WAREN BUFFET with his new railroad investment,. How much he is donating in the name of safety, as an Oboma supporter stepping in looking for payoff ? The railroad companies in general have given into those politicians in a big way who sit on the transpiration committee along with the teamsters and public citizen. Uncle Sam needs to get their own houses in order, leave my home on the road alone ,stop trying to record my every action ,and limiting my workday, and week even more in the name of safety. Call it what it is …a payoff. We ,the trucking industry, are so heavily regulated that we need a lawyer to look at the DOT rule book now and make sense of it, lets change it even more in the name of safety. What the heck truckers aren’t all that smart, they will never notice there check shrinking by a third or more, all in the name of safet!!!.
It is sad , but those who feel the they need to make changes to laws on the books don’t have a clue to what is there now, but MR. money over there, says change it for safety. Is 30 percent more truck soon the roads are going to make it safe? NO. I’ve got it let’s put that freight on trains, in which we the people give our tax dollars for them to survive ,all in the name of safety.
So yes, new laws protecting us against government, and those bottom feeders lining there pockets in the name of safety, follow the money that’s Washington., Who cares about the little guy, we are protecting the public against the big bad trucks, look at the stats . Just let us do our job with out Uncle Sam in the passenger seat ,or recording every move we make
Drive safely and use your head
Safety is up to us not the government
Ronald Perry - 13 years ago
Not without some changes. Officers are writing things on an inspection form that before would have just been a warning. These things are now going on your record for that reason. They need to make sure only things that are actual saftey related are put on the report.
Barry Lawhorn - 13 years ago
No it wont. Its a ploy to get rid of the old and put in new drivers so the major companies can train them just to pass the new rules. Going to loose alot of experienced drivers that know how to get it done safely. As for hours of service, those meetings were a dog and pony show. The unions and safety groups gave alot of funds to the democrat campaigns to get them reduced. We are safer now with what we have.Numbers prove it but the unions dont like the idea of working pass banker hours.
Todd Forman - 13 years ago
It depends if they are actually going out to make the trucks and driver's safer, or is it just another quick get rich money scam to bilk thousands of dollars out of carriers that are already on a tight maintenance budget already from paying every kind of tax that has the hands of state and federal officials in their pockets draining the carrier to pay over inflated saloried state and federal employees.
2010 CSA have no good effects for driver, if the current HOS are effective why change them based on the oponion of individual and suggestion on people that have no ideal what it takes to make it in this profession. I realize that some driver are unsafe, but there are excellent drivers out here also. The comapnies that drivers are associated with must take the necessary coreection to make the highways safer for all travelers. The motoring public , and safety gropus and or own ATA must realize that drivers have to support or families and we endure so much loss in doing so. More government regulation will not help the situation, but in all reality make the present situation worse. As it have been said before if its not broken dont fix it. The trucking industry is not broken, what we need is a decent salary and better working conditions.
2010 cna have no good effects for driver, if the current HOS are effective why change them based on the oponion of individual and suggestion on people that have no ideal what it takes to make it in this profession. I realize that some driver are unsafe, but there are excellent drivers out here also. The comapnies that drivers are associated with must take the necessary coreection to make the highways safer for all travelers. The motoring public , and safety gropus and or own ATA must realize that drivers have to support or families and we endure so much loss in doing so. More government regulation will not help the situation, but in all reality make the present situation worse. As it have been said before if its not broken dont fix it. The trucking industry is not broken, what we need is a decent salary and better working conditions.
I'm a 20yr veteran of the road and cvsa has just put me out of a job. I've had absolutely no issues what-so-ever with tickets, accidents, or inspections until this year.
In January, Ohio gave me a level 3 roadside inspection. From that I got 2 warnings, one for speed, and one for log book not current, and one citation for no seatbelt. then in April i had another level 3 from Indiana. From that I got a warning for unauthorized passenger (companies fault) and 2 summons. One for speeding(which was dropped),and one for logbook not current...again.
So in the end I have 2 citations(1 for seatbelt and 1 for logbook)and 3 warnings. Just so you all know, warnings count against you on your cvsa driver score and that is something employers look at.
Its funny how these stupid little, minor infractions I got in the past 4 months can so easily erase 20 years of almost flawless driving.
Be careful out there
the idiots in charge, thats right i said idiots, regulate an industry the know nothing about and make too many regulations that make our job difficult when it unnessary . if you have a bad driver then he needs to be taken out of the truck permanently and i am not talking about a driver that has been disqualified because of too many logbook violations or too many tickets because of a light out on avehicle or other infractions. there are too many drivers being disqualified for things like this that are just part of the job and have been made a so called safety issue when its not and it keeps them from being rehired. then you have a real safty issue where adriver has totalled out a truck and some one will just put him back in another truck. we should also over regulated laws that the dot have to live by and enforcement that fines them and disqualifies them from there job when they dont dot there i's and cross there t's. no this no more rediculious than what is being done to the truckers.
Amen Perry.
Yes, I think Uncle Sam needs to do everything they can to keep everybody safe. Anybody who goes to there factory job and works 8 hours should not be able to drive home, you now they are at a high stress point and tired . He or she may fall asleep driving home and into a playground full of kids. A family going on vacation driving long distance 8 hours later falls asleep at the wheel and into side of a big truck causing a big chain reaction ,…not good. The hour of service laws on the books right now have done what they were intended to do, all one has to do is look at accident stats of big trucks to see that, they are at the lowest rates they ever have been, by large numbers. These groups that are out there pushing for the dismantling of the trucking industry as we know it ,are not there to keep anybody safe or green ,except the green that goes into the pocket. The teamsters push for all this to happen is all about needing 3 trucks to do what 2 trucks did without a problem .., more dues to collect. Who cares about little guy out there who just seen a third of their income disappear . There is so much money out there against trucking in the name of safety, just ask WAREN BUFFET with his new railroad investment,. How much he is donating in the name of safety, as an Oboma supporter stepping in looking for payoff ? The railroad companies in general have given into those politicians in a big way who sit on the transpiration committee along with the teamsters and public citizen. Uncle Sam needs to get their own houses in order, leave my home on the road alone ,stop trying to record my every action ,and limiting my workday, and week even more in the name of safety. Call it what it is …a payoff. We ,the trucking industry, are so heavily regulated that we need a lawyer to look at the DOT rule book now and make sense of it, lets change it even more in the name of safety. What the heck truckers aren’t all that smart, they will never notice there check shrinking by a third or more, all in the name of safet!!!.
It is sad , but those who feel the they need to make changes to laws on the books don’t have a clue to what is there now, but MR. money over there, says change it for safety. Is 30 percent more truck soon the roads are going to make it safe? NO. I’ve got it let’s put that freight on trains, in which we the people give our tax dollars for them to survive ,all in the name of safety.
So yes, new laws protecting us against government, and those bottom feeders lining there pockets in the name of safety, follow the money that’s Washington., Who cares about the little guy, we are protecting the public against the big bad trucks, look at the stats . Just let us do our job with out Uncle Sam in the passenger seat ,or recording every move we make
Drive safely and use your head
Safety is up to us not the government
Not without some changes. Officers are writing things on an inspection form that before would have just been a warning. These things are now going on your record for that reason. They need to make sure only things that are actual saftey related are put on the report.
No it wont. Its a ploy to get rid of the old and put in new drivers so the major companies can train them just to pass the new rules. Going to loose alot of experienced drivers that know how to get it done safely. As for hours of service, those meetings were a dog and pony show. The unions and safety groups gave alot of funds to the democrat campaigns to get them reduced. We are safer now with what we have.Numbers prove it but the unions dont like the idea of working pass banker hours.
It depends if they are actually going out to make the trucks and driver's safer, or is it just another quick get rich money scam to bilk thousands of dollars out of carriers that are already on a tight maintenance budget already from paying every kind of tax that has the hands of state and federal officials in their pockets draining the carrier to pay over inflated saloried state and federal employees.
2010 CSA have no good effects for driver, if the current HOS are effective why change them based on the oponion of individual and suggestion on people that have no ideal what it takes to make it in this profession. I realize that some driver are unsafe, but there are excellent drivers out here also. The comapnies that drivers are associated with must take the necessary coreection to make the highways safer for all travelers. The motoring public , and safety gropus and or own ATA must realize that drivers have to support or families and we endure so much loss in doing so. More government regulation will not help the situation, but in all reality make the present situation worse. As it have been said before if its not broken dont fix it. The trucking industry is not broken, what we need is a decent salary and better working conditions.
2010 cna have no good effects for driver, if the current HOS are effective why change them based on the oponion of individual and suggestion on people that have no ideal what it takes to make it in this profession. I realize that some driver are unsafe, but there are excellent drivers out here also. The comapnies that drivers are associated with must take the necessary coreection to make the highways safer for all travelers. The motoring public , and safety gropus and or own ATA must realize that drivers have to support or families and we endure so much loss in doing so. More government regulation will not help the situation, but in all reality make the present situation worse. As it have been said before if its not broken dont fix it. The trucking industry is not broken, what we need is a decent salary and better working conditions.