ELD Violations Won’t Count Against CSA Scores During Transition Period
Derek Barrs, Florida’s chief of commercial vehicle enforcement, asked for a show of hands among the state enforcement people in the room if they were ready for the ELD mandate. Photo: Deborah Lockridge
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Derek Barrs, Florida’s chief of commercial vehicle enforcement, asked for a show of hands among the state enforcement people in the room if they were ready for the ELD mandate. Photo: Deborah Lockridge
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BIRMINGHAM, AL – Federal officials have taken another step to make the transition to mandatory electronic devices less painful.
If drivers are cited at roadside for not complying with the ELD rule come the Dec. 18 deadline, the citation will be a “no points cite” that will not affect the Safety Measurement System that feeds into CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) scores – through April 1.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officials shared this news during the Southern Regional Road Show event Wednesday.
In late August, FMCSA and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced a phased-in approach to the ELD mandate and said it would delay implementing out-of-service criteria related to ELDs until April 1, 2018, and that each jurisdiction would have discretion as to whether they actually issue citations in the beginning.
As it has become increasingly obvious that much of the trucking industry as well as the enforcement community are not fully ready for the Dec. 18 ELD mandate deadline, the agency apparently felt it needed to go further.
Learn more about ELDs in HDT’s special channel, ELDs: Time to Comply.
Jon Dierberger, FMCSA field administrator, told the room full of enforcement officials and a smattering of fleet and insurance representatives that for violations cited at roadside for not having an ELD through April 1, there will be no SMS points impact. He confirmed to HDT that this was in a recent internal memo.
Anne Collins, associate administrator, FMCSA field operations, confirmed to HDT that this was a recent “corollary” to the previous announcement that ELD citations would not result in out of service orders, in order to be “clear …Read the rest of this story
