SMS evaluates the safety of individual motor carriers by considering all safety-based roadside inspection violations, not just out-of service violations, as well as State-reported crashes, using 24 months of performance data. SMS assesses motor carriers' safety performance in each of the seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs): Unsafe Driving, Hours-of-Service Compliance, Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances/Alcohol, Vehicle Maintenance, Hazardous Materials Compliance, and Crash Indicator.

SMS calculates a measure for each BASIC by combining the time and severity weighted violations/crashes. Roadside inspections feed data into the CSA BASICs system, which can influence decisions insurers make on how much to charge carriers. Insurers look at CSA BASICS, so working to lower those scores could lower premiums.

This Webinar will help particiants understand more about the BASICS, how to review the SMS factsheet and briefings on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Website and how to lower safety scores.

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Raphael Espeleta
Raphael Espeleta

Ralphael Espeleta is a Compliance Consultant for Truckers Choice Consulting LLC.. Ralphael has over 21 years of motor carrier safety experience as a former Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Compliance Safety Auditor in El Paso Texas and is also a former New Entrant Specialist for the  Federal Motot Carrier Safety Administration Southern Service Center, where he was in charge of ensuring compliance for 12 states in the Southern Region. Ralphael is also fluent in Spanish.

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