ARTI survey on CSA reveals areas of understanding, prevalent myths

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ARLINGTON, Va. — The recent survey of truck drivers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute to determine trucker’s understanding of CSA revealed several prevalent myths and areas of understand, the organization said.

In releasing the results of the survey, ARTI officials said that findings reveal that truck drivers continue to have myriad concerns related to CSA, drivers may not have a solid understanding of what CSA is and does.

ATRI is the research arm of the American Trucking Associations.

Areas of understanding included:

Areas of Understanding

• 95.3 percent of drivers realized that all violations, and not just out-of-service violations, count against drivers and carriers under CSA. All safety-based RI violations count.

• 82.6 percent of drivers understood that a carrier cannot remove violations from their CSA record simply by firing the responsible driver. All inspections and crashes that a CMV driver receives while under the authority of a carrier will remain part of the carrier’s SMS data for two years unless overturned through the DataQs system, even if the carrier terminates the driver.

• 78.4 percent of drivers recognized that clean roadside inspections actually improve driver and carrier CSA scores. When the BASIC scores are being calculated, a clean inspection (i.e. inspections with no violations for a particular BASIC) will lower scores on the corresponding measure.

• 62.2 percent of drivers acknowledged that CSA does not take driver body mass index (BMI) information into account. While research data indicate that a driver’s body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for identifying drivers that may have sleep apnea, neither FMCSA nor the CSA program currently has any rules that restrict who can be a CMV driver based on BMI or weight or neck size.

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