Numbers from a data mining software company provide a preliminary look at what the 2010 Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA 2010) safety screening program might hold. Based on the analysis from Vigillo, drivers and carriers will have their hands full in preparing to comply with the program’s standards. For starters, 69 percent of data collected for 1,500 fleets indicate that a majority would incur some sort of federal intervention. The majority of infractions were deemed controllable by the driver, like a broken windshield or moving violations. Speeding by far garnered the most points, even though most tickets issued were warnings rather than citations.

Early analysis of data for 1,500 fleets shows that 69% would face some sort of federal intervention under the 2010 Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA2010) safety screening program, compared to 1.3% under the current but expiring SafeStat system. The analysis, conducted by the data mining software company Vigillo, was based on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) databases and methodologies that will be used to score both fleets and drivers in seven areas knows as BASICs under the new safety rating program that goes into effect in Nov.

Fleets with ratings that exceed threshold levels in any of the seven BASIC categories will face “intervention” that ranges from a letter of warning from FMCSA to increased federal scrutiny of safety records. Exceeding that threshold in one of the two BASICs involving traffic and hours-of-service violations could even result in an unsatisfactory safety rating even if a fleet has acceptable ratings in the other six categories.

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