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Data Drives Trucking
The Trucking Industry is awash with data. The FMCSA collects mountains of data about commercial motor carriers and makes most of it available to the public through a network of web sites. Licensing and Insurance, Operating Authority, Motor Carrier Profile, and now CSA data are all being used by your customers, competitors, and lawyers to understand the overall safety profile of over 1.2M motor carriers.
- A late 2011 shipper survey conducted by Morgan Stanley & Co. found that 55 percent of those polled were afraid to use a carrier if even one of its seven BASIC scores came in above the CSA threshold.
- A prominent attorney recently declared CSA the “full employment act” for attorneys in trucking for the next 15 years.
- The insurance industry is beginning to focus on CSA as a guideline for premiums, even insurability of carriers.
- Brokers are increasingly using data to select carriers whose safety profiles fit their risk tolerance.
As a safety professional at a motor carrier, you need to understand not only your safety issues, but how your carrier is perceived by others when they look at the industry. Do you know how you benchmark against your competition?
- How many Carriers of your size, in your state have CSA Alerts?
- How many Carriers in your state market themselves as hauling the same cargo types that you do?
- How many of those Carriers have better CSA Scores than you do?
- How many Carriers of your size have more BIPD Insurance than you do?
- How many Carriers in your neighboring States have broker authority?
- Who are the new Carriers added to SMS this month?
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Shipping Containers Trendy?
No, seriously, they’re becoming trendy. As I live in the land of “green,” up-cycled, organic, “minimize-your-carbon-footprint,” Portland, Oregon, I get to see/hear about some pretty strange things.
- Dog TV Channels
- “Ice Cream” made with only bananas (Seriously, this ACTUALLY pretty good.)
- Smart Phone glasses (The future is here… So, where is my FLYING CAR?!?)
- And that Nicholas Cage is a Vampire.
New HAZMAT BASIC analyzed by Vigillo
Scene Opens: A dark cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble…from Macbeth, circa 1613
The FMCSA has described the soon-to-be-released “improvements” to CSA’s methodology including the creation of a new HAZMAT BASIC. In short, the intention is to:
•Move Non-HAZMAT Cargo Violations into the Vehicle Maintenance BASIC
•HAZMAT Violations remain behind in the new HAZMAT BASIC
•New HAZMAT BASIC to be released to public view
Who’d you share your love with?
So Valentine’s Day came and went. Hopefully you had fun recognizing all those important people in your life. (Like we need a special day for that – we do it all the time – don’t we?) I know the 6 year olds sure enjoyed another reason for candy. It’s like a 2nd Halloween. Right after we just had the 100 day party! But I digress…
While you probably remembered your significant other, kids, kids’ classmates, kids’ teachers, kids’ sitters, your assistants, your friends, and the list goes on… quite the greeting card smorgasbord of folks you can remember. Did you remember your drivers? It’s not too late. Sure there’s driver appreciation week in the fall but why not give the gift that keeps on giving. Give them access to their very own CSA Report – - FREE of CHARGE to both you AND the driver. Remind your drivers to use www.roadsideresume.com or turn it on if you haven’t yet. For those you that haven’t become a Vigillo subscriber yet (there are 1.3M authorities out there), you can sign up as an affiliate and offer this too free of charge to your drivers! Check out our website at http://vigillo.com/drivers.html for further details or see our YouTube Chapter for Dan Baker videos on it as well.
When’s the next candy celebration day? Maybe just days away – Friday’s coming right? You’d think I was a dentist… or a dentist’s wife!
CSA By The Numbers Webinar – Slides & Recording Available!
Thanks to the hundreds who registered and attended the CSA By the Numbers Webinar this week. The video recording and slides are below. Enjoy!
VIDEO RECORDING:
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Managing driver performance drives bottom-line gains
This blog post is actually a re-blog (is that a real term?…..I’ve heard of re-tweeting …whatever….. I digress). Wendy Leavitt of FleetOwner.com wrote this excellent article about a recent webinar conducted by Don Osterberg of Schneider National and Al LaCombe of Dupre Logistics which I thought was worth posting.
—By Wendy Leavitt, FleetOwner.com
Drivers are key to the success of any trucking operation, so it only makes sense to invest in how they are hired, retained and managed to be successful on the job. Implement a good driver-performance management program based on solid data and you could start to see results “almost immediately,” speakers Don Osterberg, senior vice president of safety, security & driver training for Schneider National, Inc. and Al LaCombe, director of safety, training & security for Dupre’ Logistics, LLC told representatives of 240 companies who recently attended a live webcast sponsored by GreenRoad and presented jointly by Fleet Owner and the Truckload Carriers’ Assn. (TCA).
New Webinar: CSA By The Numbers!
What are the key trends and insights you should know about the constantly changing world of CSA? What does the future hold? Find out!
WEBINAR: CSA BY THE NUMBERS!
Vigillo presents a free complimentary hour-long webinar on CSA By the Numbers: trends, anomalies, unexpected twists and turns and…what to expect in the future! All presented by Vigillo’s CEO, Steve Bryan.
UPDATE: Webinar slides & recording available HERE.
Sign up for the date and time of your choice:
| Webinar: CSA By The Numbers with Steve Bryan |
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| Date | Pacific | Mountain | Central | Eastern | Registration Link |
| Wed, Feb 15 | Noon | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | Completed |
| Thurs, Feb 16 | 8:30am | 9:30am | 10:30am | 11:30am | Completed |
New Violations Added to CSA for January Snapshot
CSA is changing again! The FMCSA has announced that they will be adding new violations to the CSA methodology when they release the January snapshot (expected in early February). The main changes are:
- 4 new texting violations have been added to the Unsafe Driving BASIC
- 22 new Vehicle Maintenance violations have been added
At Vigillo, we take pride in vigilantly monitoring CSA changes so our customers are among the first to see the impact of these changes. We will be updating our scorecards and methodology as soon as possible with the new update. More details below: Read more