The 7 BASICs
Unsafe Driving, HOS Compliance, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances/Alcohol, Vehicle Maintenance, Hazmat, Crash Indicator. Scored 0–100; higher = worse.
CSA scores drive insurance, audit risk, and shipper reputation. They're also widely misunderstood.
Carriers can't 'pay off' CSA scores. The only fix is the underlying behavior — and it takes time.
Unsafe Driving, HOS Compliance, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances/Alcohol, Vehicle Maintenance, Hazmat, Crash Indicator. Scored 0–100; higher = worse.
Roadside inspections (clean inspections lower scores; violations raise them, weighted by severity), crashes (any crash hits Crash Indicator), and time (events age out at 24 months).
Three durable plays: pre-trip inspection rigor (fewer roadside violations), driver coaching (fewer unsafe driving and HOS), and clean-inspection chasing (more clean inspections dilute the violation history).
24 months, weighted higher in months 1–6 and decaying thereafter.
Yes — the public portal shows percentile ranks per BASIC. Shippers and brokers screen on it for risk.