How Can I Found Out What Trucking Companies That Has The Best Safety Department?
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Look up there CSA score https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/
CSA:
Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)
The CSA is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities that are related to commercial motor vehicle
FMCSA:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
The FMCSA was established within the Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000. Their primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries.
What Does The FMCSA Do?
- Commercial Drivers' Licenses
- Data and Analysis
- Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement
- Research and Technology
- Safety Assistance
- Support and Information Sharing
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
What are you looking for in Safety? Every trucking company does their best to avoid accidents of all types. (I work for Swift, the safety people I talk to are pretty good in their business.)
Safety really is on you and not so much the company. If you want to remain safe while on the job then do a extensive pretrip. If you find something wrong get it fixed. I think you'll find that either of those two companies would eagerly fix any problem you could find that relates to safety.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Look up there CSA score https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, so can you help me out ? I went to the site, and "got lost." I couldn't find a link for a way to look up a company CSA score.
CSA:
Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)
The CSA is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities that are related to commercial motor vehicle
FMCSA:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
The FMCSA was established within the Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000. Their primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries.
What Does The FMCSA Do?
- Commercial Drivers' Licenses
- Data and Analysis
- Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement
- Research and Technology
- Safety Assistance
- Support and Information Sharing
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Look up there CSA score https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, so can you help me out ? I went to the site, and "got lost." I couldn't find a link for a way to look up a company CSA score.
Scroll down past the orange bars to the section that says "Check Motor Carrier Safety and Performance Data". Put your favorite trucking company's name there. Press SEARCH
CSA:
Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)
The CSA is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities that are related to commercial motor vehicle
FMCSA:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
The FMCSA was established within the Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000. Their primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries.
What Does The FMCSA Do?
- Commercial Drivers' Licenses
- Data and Analysis
- Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement
- Research and Technology
- Safety Assistance
- Support and Information Sharing
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Look up there CSA score https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, so can you help me out ? I went to the site, and "got lost." I couldn't find a link for a way to look up a company CSA score.
I ve read a lot of your posts and you are pretty sharp.
Scroll down past the orange bars to the section that says "Check Motor Carrier Safety and Performance Data". Put your favorite trucking company's name there. Press SEARCH
Ditto
CSA:
Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)
The CSA is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities that are related to commercial motor vehicle
FMCSA:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
The FMCSA was established within the Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000. Their primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries.
What Does The FMCSA Do?
- Commercial Drivers' Licenses
- Data and Analysis
- Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement
- Research and Technology
- Safety Assistance
- Support and Information Sharing
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
I would imagine all the big carriers are the same My company has a weekly safety talk at the terminals that is then podcast to our phones. They give us statistics and pictures of accidents and how to avoid them....give us pics of pretrip items that were missed, and most importantly they encourage us to slow down and shutdown in bad weather. We are constantly told we are the captain of the ship and we make the decisions. The owner of the company is there too and he tells us that its his trucks and he trained us to drive or not drive and dispatch can't make us do anything. If unsafe shutdown.
But I'd imagine all.companies would be the same. Try having a dispatcher make you head out during a blizzard alert and see what happens. Best case scenario the guy gets written up when you call safety on him. Worst case, well.,..i would like to hear the company defend itself against "I was fired cause I wouldn't drive in a blizzard."
Once you use the magic words "its not safe" there is nothing they can do. If they want to have someone else with less brains take the load, so be it. But most companies will tell you they would rather change an appt than deal with the costs of a wreck. They told us a rollover costs about $300k in clean up and other indirect costs. No company wants that.
As far as the truck maintenance... Most big carriers have newer equipment less than three years old. Which means warranty...which means they go over things thoroughly to make sure all is right and change it out immediately.
So I'm not sure what you were looking for in safety...but any big carrier will be pushing safety. Call their main switchboard and ask for the safety Dept. They might be impressed to have a potential driver so interested in safety to be ambitious enough to call them.
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Dispatcher:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Jordan, what exactly are you trying to figure out about a company based on their safety department? We have a ton of information about how to choose a company to work for but nowhere in there will you find anything about evaluating their safety department.
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OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
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Hello, I am trying to find out what trucking companies that have the best safety department. I could contact a recruiter for the company that I want to go to but not sure they would tell me the truth. The trucking companies I am thinking about going to is Swift or warner enterprise what do you think about them?