In a continuing effort to help their drivers comply with the HOS (Hours-of-Service) and BASIC’s (Behavior Analysis and Safety Measurement System), Sargent Trucking is hosting a free Hours-of-Service and Logbook Training session, open to the public, over the next three upcoming Mondays. Lunch will be provided each day.
This will occur on Nov. 3 at the Mars Hill Snowmobile Club on the West Ridge Road beginning at 9 a.m. and on Nov. 10 and 17 at the Blaine Town Office. Maine Motor Transport Associations’ Randy DeVault will be discussing how to work with the new HOS rules, split sleeper time, qualifying breaks, resets and more. Retired Maine State Trooper Nick Bailey will also be on hand to discuss electronic logbooks as well as pre-trip and post-trip inspections. Call 425-8905 to sign up for this seminar. This is open to any commercial motor vehicle driver.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration uses the millions of roadside inspections and thousands of commercial motor vehicle crashes that are entered into their database each year by law enforcement to analyze both carriers and drivers as a part of its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) enforcement program. Roadside inspections may take place at a weigh station, or occur as a result of a moving violation, or occur as part of a crash investigation. In short, CSA is a data gathering and analysis approach that the FMCSA uses to identify safety problems early so that they can be addressed by carriers and drivers before those problems lead to tragedies on the highway.
The CSA program is made up of four main components. Data Collection, Safety Measurement — done across seven categories known as the BASICs, Safety Evaluation — to determine which carriers and drivers are performing unsafely, and Intervention — enforcement action.
The seven categories under Safety Measurement include unsafe driving, hours-of-service (HOS) compliance, driver fitness, controlled substances and alcohol, vehicle maintenance, hazardous materials compliance and crash indicator.
This information was taken from the “CSA Driver Handbook” from J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
