Episode #79 Repairing Your Safety Score with John Seidl of Trucking Wins

A motor carrier’s safety score has a direct impact on their earning potential and each recorded violation threatens this earning potential. Learn directly from a former DOT officer on how to use the DataQ system to audit and repair your safety scores. The Transportation & Logistics Clubhouse welcomes John Seidl of Trucking Wins to discuss.

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Listen/Subscribe on Youtube:https://youtu.be/HskAmhuE0-4 Intro/Outro Music Shoutout: Positive Hip-Hop by MaxKoMusic | https://maxkomusic.com/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/00:00 Intro 01:55 Background and how he got into logistics 03:09 His experience as an inspector and being in an enforcement role. 04:17 Moments from his inspector days that stick with him. 05:21 What's a Data q system? CSA scores and who invented it 06:47 Do you feel that people know about data qs? 08:05 Can independent dispatchers access different carriers if they owned a compliance piece? 10:16 Is it different when a driver submits a data q request for removal of something vs the owner or a safety director? 11:42 Request for violation removal and whether enforcement officers are notified and take it personally if found to be wrong. 14:32 Additional data q services. 16:22 Can you say no if you are handed a warning? 18:35 The difference between a citation and a violation. 19:34 How long it takes to process data qs. 20:48 Successful removal or reduction of violations and how long it may take to reflect on a carrier's safety score. 22:15 Whether data qs for accidents and crashes are different. 24:12 Preventable situations and something that could be removed from your record through data qs. 26:41 Examples where crashes can be a driver's fault or not. 29:51 Are hours of service violations more easier or challenging to get? 32:03 Meaning of 150 air miles. 34:33 Truck parking violations. 36:49 Situations where drivers are allowed to use personal conveyance. 38:05 Situations where drivers can legally drive if they are out of hours. 40:59 Thoughts on hardest part in utilising driver splits. 42:36 Situations where you can utilise time splits. 44:02 How to apply time splits. 46:35 Link to Trucking Wins website with more details of applying time splits. 49:19 How to become an assest owning carrier in the current market. 52:29 Final shots. 53:37 Outro

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