While the jury is out on when it will actually roll out, based on the information that I have picked up from my friends at Zurich, CSA 2010 is a game changer. I thought in the interest of brevity I would present what the deal is with some editorial pejorative that might help you and your people understand what the current game is and what the game is changing to.What has been presented by the goverment and others is confusing - and nobody really has their arms around it. So here we go:
CSA 2010 represents a radical departure from the way DOT currently evaluates carriers. The upshot is that there will be new liability implications to the trucker that an insurance company will have to get their arms around very quickly.
The goal of CSA 2010 is to simply reduce truck crashes, injuries and deaths. There are today 2 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles which is a sharp reduction from a zenith of 6 fatalities per 100 million miles a short time ago. BUT the crash rate has only dropped very marginally- and that simply is not good enough evidently for the DOT.
CSA 2010 will establish a better data gathering mechanism that will use ALL roadside inpections and ALL crash result. DOT will be able to intervene sooner when there is a problem. The other big deal is that the new system WILL PROVIDE HISTORICAL DATA ON DRIVERS, and that is new.
What is not changing? 2 things:
1) no rules are changing and hours of service changes will occur
2) the current ISS inspection selection will still exist
So what is changing? 3 things:
1) a new safety measurement system (SMS)
2) a new intervention process by DOT
3) a new safety fitness determination (SFD)- THEY WILL BE DOING AWAY WITH RATINGS OF SATISFACTORY, CONDITIONAL AND UNSATISFACTORY
CSA 2010 will be evaluating many more carriers than DOT does presently and less of it will be done on site
INDIVIDUAL DRIVER EVALUATIONS WILL OCCUR WHERE A CARRIER (OR YOU) WILL BE ABLE TO GET A DRIVERS 3 YEAR EMPLOYMENT HISTORY. Bad drivers will have less opportunity to wander from job to job undetected.
SMS- SAFETY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
- use crash rcord AND all roadside inspections
- weighs from 1 to 3 the severity based on the relationship of crash to risk ( more later on this)
- CALCULATES 7 BASICS( BEHAVIOR ANAYLSIS AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT CATEGORIES)
What are the 7 BASICS?
1) UNSAFE DRIVING
2) FATIGUED DRIVING
3) DRIVER FITNESS
4) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
5) VEHICLE MAINTENANCE
6) CARGO ISSUES
7) CRASH INDICATOR
THE BIGGEST DEAL IN DETERMINING SCORES IS COMPARING THE NUMBER OF CRASHES TO THE NUMBER OF POWER UNITS- SO THE BIGGEST THING YOU CAN DO TO HELP A TRUCKER IS TO MAKE SURE THEY UPDATE THEIR MCS 150 EVERYTIME THERE IS A CHANGE
One size does not fit all. There is a peer group component to CSA 2010
COMPARISON OF SAFESTAT TO CSA 2010
- Safestat has 4 SEAs (Safety Evaluation Areas) versus 7 BASICs from CSA 2010
- Safestat identifies carriers for compliance review versus CSA 2010 identifies specific safety issues and goes into next steps quickly
- Safestat uses Out of Service (OOS) from roadside inpections and moving violations while CSA 2010 expand this to road safety performance along with roadside inspections
- Safestat has no impact on Safety Rating whereas CSA 2010 uses data to make a safety fitness determination
- Safestat does not use violations weighed on crash risk variable while CSA 2010 weighs those violations based on the relationship of crash risk
- Safestat assess CARRIERS ONLY while CSA 2010 measures CARRIERS AND DRIVERS
there will be a new carrier intervention process not seen before. Root cause analysis will be used to fix problems as to the what, why, and how to fix.
WHAT TRIGGERS CARRIER INTERVENTIONS? 3 THINGS:
1) ONE OR MORE BASICS DEFICIENCIES
2) HIGH CRASH INDICATOR
3) FATALITY OR COMPLAINT
Interventions will be both on site and off site with many more off-site
Interventions will result in corrective actions in 3 ways:
1) Cooperative Safety Plan
2) Notice of Violation or Claim
3) Operations Out of Service Order
THE CSA 2010 SYSTEM WILL REEVALUATE CARRIERS MONTHLY
*** CLEAN INSPECTIONS WILL HELP SCORE
Driver's employment history will be public. Preventable crashes will be rated differently than non-preventable crashes which is not the case
Now that I have killed you with details- what does it all mean?
* Insurance companies and agents and carriers will have a different and better way of evaluating and correcting deficiences
* there will be less substandard risks with bad drivers
* insurance companies will have much better data to evaluate loss costs and actuaries will love it
* Truckers will have no choice but to operate better
* Drivers will have no choice but to operate better
* Plaintiff attorneys will have a field day against truckers and insurance companies that have poor scores
ITS A GAME CHANGER!
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Ben,
ReplyDeleteI agree it is a game changer. With the implementation of new regulations there will be many different interpretation of these regulations and that will increase litigation. However, respectfully, I don't think insurance premiums will decrease. Carriers will be evaluated on each and every defect some of which will be petty. Insurance companies will rate strictly on the new score and not overlook the petty violations, thus increasing rates. Additionally, the system will better identify non-compliant carriers, thus increasing insurance rates and the cost to do business even further.
Respectfully.