175,000 Truck Drivers could lose there job starting in July, 2010.
Have you heard if CSA 2010? If not you will be hearing a lot about it beginning next month.
CSA 2010 could cost you thousands of dollars in fines and lost revenue due to "truck drivers" being declared “Unfit”. An estimated 175,000 truckers will lose their Jobs when CSA 2010 is implemented.
RIGHT NOW DATA ABOUT YOUR DRIVING Record is being recorded by D.O.T. for YOUR DRIVER SAFETY RATING when FMCSA's New CSA 2010 goes into effect.
Most motor carriers and drivers haven't heard of CSA 2010, yet it is quite massive in its scope, and represents a major change in the way the FMCSA audits companies.
Perhaps the most profound change, and how this affects individual drivers are going to be audited and each will be given a personal safety rating. This personal safety rating will determine weather or not the driver is considered eligible to continue driving or requires some sort of intervention.
For the first time, each commercial vehicle license holder (YOU!) will be assigned a ‘Safety Rating” YOUR safety rating will follow you regardless of the company you work for or contract with. YOUR activity on the highway, i.e. roadside inspection violations, accidents, tickets, even warning tickets will have a negative impact on your personal safety rating. YOU could be declared UNFIT and lose your ability to drive for a living as a result of a poor safety rating. Companies will HIRE and FIRE based on your safety rating. YOUR PAY could be affected as a result of a poor safety rating. Likewise, you could earn MORE with a favorable safety rating!!
Data used to calculate your safety rating comes from Roadside inspections, traffic violations (citations) and crash data. A new Driver safety rating will be determined EACH MONTH!
Under CSA 2010, all carriers--and eventually all drivers--with sufficient safety data available will receive a safety rating that is periodically updated. Currently, FMCSA is able to provide safety ratings for relatively few carriers and for no drivers. As described earlier, CSA 2010 will employ a progressive array of interventions that can be tailored to match the severity of the safety problems they are intended to correct.
CSA 2010 intends to use new data--such as information from police accident reports about driver-related factors contributing to a crash--and improve existing data sources--by, for example, using its database of licensed commercial drivers to identify all drivers with convictions for unsafe driving practices, as well as the carriers they work for--to enable a more precise assessment of safety problems.
What companies will hire felony truck drivers? Next to having a bad DAC Report what companies will hire felony drivers is the second most asked question I get. Apparently there is a large amount of felony truck drivers with past felonies who are looking for jobs. First off there is no website I can find that has a list of companies that hire felony drivers. It is going to take some work on your part.
Even with a felony you can apply with any company, and there is a chance you can get a trucking job. But there are a few things you need to know first. Some of these companies are willing to review applicants with felonies but not all.
Some companies will hire ex felons if the charges are at least 5 to 7 yrs old! But they wont touch anyone with a drug, sexual, or violent crime, misdemeanor or felony.
There are only 2 major criminal issues that will prevent, by law, you from becoming a truck driver:
1.Conviction of possession or distribution of an illegal drug
2.The use of criminal force such as with a gun or knife
If you are still interested in getting a job as a felony truck drivers it is possible but it will not be easy in this current economy. The reason? Since 9/11 things have changed in the trucking industry. And with this economy trucking companies can afford to be picky about who they hire due to a oversupply of truck drivers. In July '09, over 242,000 jobs were lost. With the estimated 6,800 trucking jobs lost in July, the trucking industry has lost 77,700 jobs since the end of 2008 – a decline of 5.8 percent. Job cuts since July 2008 – just before the current decline – total 128,100.
How many of you guys posting here actually do somehting about what you are complaining about?
Fred Schaffner from The American Driver.com says "Stand Up Speak Out Or Accept What Comes." In other word stand up for your rights or accept the consequences of doing nothing.
In this day and age you have to do something to supplemental your income to help protect you if your trucking company slows down any more. Or you are having a hard time finding a job. I found this website to be useful. http://www.smart-trucking-jobs.com/badeconomy.html
In this day and age you have to do something to supplemental your income to help protect you if your trucking company slows down any more. Or you are having a hard time finding a job. I found this website to be useful. http://www.smart-trucking-jobs.com/badeconomy.html Edited by billy5884 on Apr 30, 2009 at 09:33 PM
I would suggest to all drivers to get a copy of there DAC report just to see what is on there. You are entitled to a free copy of your DAC report once every 12 months. You can see what is on there an try to correct any errors on there. <a href="http://smart-trucking-jobs.com/dacreport.html">Click here to find out what a DAC report is and how to get yours free. And how to file a complaint for false or incorrect information on your DAC report.</a>.
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