Overdrive : March 2010
Feeling the Heat
28 Overdrive MARCH 2010 gave Clay a few days to come up with a plan for action. Violations of this type under CSA 2010 will contribute to a carrier's rating in Unsafe Driv-ing one of seven BASICs (Behavioral Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories). These categories are similar to the Safestat Safety Evalu-ation Areas, or SEAs. Deficient scores in these categories can trigger an intervention by FMCSA. Thomas Lansing, safety vice president at Ho-gan Transports in St. Louis, Mo., found out about two of the BASICs Unsafe Driving and Crash Indicator when his carrier came under the CSA 2010 test. When you look at our SEA score, we're well below the deficient mark in both ar-eas, says Lansing. It's hard to grasp how you can be a great company in the eyes of FMCSA and then automatically be deficient viewed another way. But grasp it Hogan did. After receiving warn-ing letters around December 2008, Hogan was as-signed an on-site focused investigation, one of the new intervention options in what FMCSA likes to call its toolkit. By the time of the investiga-tion in June, the carrier had already addressed the problems. Lansing says the letters brought to the com-pany's attention a problem with its Unsafe Driv-ing numbers that was due to a large number of warnings, not just speeding convictions. Company Feeling the heat