Tag: adjudicated citations

Business

A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise

In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.

December 27, 2017

Business

Fighting tickets: Don’t forget DataQs to clear your PSP/CSA record

While prospective employers/lessors aren’t strictly required to use FMCSA’s PSP reports to view prospective drivers’ roadside inspection violations and recordable crashes, plenty do. Any violation marked on an inspection report will be included there going back three years, and any crash, five years.

December 28, 2016

Business

Cleaning your record in Illinois

If you’re armed with a court adjudication of a citation that also was marked as a violation on an Illinois inspection report, and if the charge was pled down or dismissed, you should have little trouble.

November 25, 2015

Business

CSA changes: Agency implements plan to account for due process in inspection citations

Violations against drivers or carriers that are dismissed or result in a “not guilty” ruling will no longer count in Compliance, Safety, Accountability scoring nor on driver Pre-Employment Screening Reports, FMCSA says.

August 25, 2014

Voices

CSA display-changes comment period ends Jan. 4

Few comments have been filed on the public docket surrounding FMCSA’s CSA display changes; those from owner-operators have largely focused on bedrock data-quality issues.

December 12, 2013

Channel 19

The drones are coming! The drones are coming!

Amazon Prime Air a big joke? — “The data systems (CSA, PSP …) tracking our lives and businesses, in the end, require much more of our attention and time than any airborne threat…”

December 3, 2013

Business

Inconsistent enforcement: Insist on inspection, not citation

The way the DataQs challenge system is working suggests conventional wisdom about citations and CSA scores is flawed, with the issue of unfinished clean inspections looming larger for carriers looking to improve CSA scores.

March 27, 2013