Satisfactory Rating Vs Not Rated
With the new hiring clause in the new highway bill, our wonderful Government in their either stupidity or by purpose has placed the majority of us Independents in jeopordy with their new clause.
Read for yourselves: http://www.dat.com/blog/post/Flaw-in-Highway-Bill-Would-Hurt-Small-Carriers?utm_campaign=cnews&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mkto&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoluKrBZKXonjHpfsX57eklXq%2B1lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CSctjI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTLnNMblszLgOWhk%3D
It is now the time for us Independent's to get together and join as a group and combat this. I am sure that the ATA and their members were crying the blues about their satisfactory rating really meaning that they had gotten into trouble and had to have a full blown investigation done on them to receive such a rating. We have been through 3 audits and when I asked why I was not getting a satisfactory rating, the investigator informed me that involved a full blown investigation and they only did that on carriers that either had a fatality accident or were way above the safety threshhold. So this means that most of us are better then those that currently have the Satisfactory Rating.
I don't know how the rest of you feel but enough is enough. Those idiots on the hill need to either make it so all of us receive a Saftey Rating of Satisfactory and those that are Unsatisfactory are reflected as so. The Conditional rating could still remain the same. It should not even have a catogory such as Non-Rated, what kind of idiot thought of that in the first place. Those boneheads at the FMCSA really should be required to get their CDL and drive out here for at least 1 year before getting a job there. What else is new lawmakers making laws about things they know absolutly nothing about.
To quote Tommy Boy " I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take a butcher's word for it." Our lawmakers would rather stick their heads up each others ass's vs taking the professionals word for it. That is why they keep messing up not only trucking but other industries as well.
Now is the time to rise up and work together for a common cause.
Read for yourselves: http://www.dat.com/blog/post/Flaw-in-Highway-Bill-Would-Hurt-Small-Carriers?utm_campaign=cnews&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mkto&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoluKrBZKXonjHpfsX57eklXq%2B1lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CSctjI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTLnNMblszLgOWhk%3D
It is now the time for us Independent's to get together and join as a group and combat this. I am sure that the ATA and their members were crying the blues about their satisfactory rating really meaning that they had gotten into trouble and had to have a full blown investigation done on them to receive such a rating. We have been through 3 audits and when I asked why I was not getting a satisfactory rating, the investigator informed me that involved a full blown investigation and they only did that on carriers that either had a fatality accident or were way above the safety threshhold. So this means that most of us are better then those that currently have the Satisfactory Rating.
I don't know how the rest of you feel but enough is enough. Those idiots on the hill need to either make it so all of us receive a Saftey Rating of Satisfactory and those that are Unsatisfactory are reflected as so. The Conditional rating could still remain the same. It should not even have a catogory such as Non-Rated, what kind of idiot thought of that in the first place. Those boneheads at the FMCSA really should be required to get their CDL and drive out here for at least 1 year before getting a job there. What else is new lawmakers making laws about things they know absolutly nothing about.
To quote Tommy Boy " I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take a butcher's word for it." Our lawmakers would rather stick their heads up each others ass's vs taking the professionals word for it. That is why they keep messing up not only trucking but other industries as well.
Now is the time to rise up and work together for a common cause.