How do I determine if a violation will count against a carrier or driver or both in the Safety Measurement System (SMS)?
The SMS uses all safety-based violations recorded during roadside inspections to evaluate safety. A list of these violations can be found in the Appendix A of the SMS Methodology document (http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/documents/SMSMethodology.pdf.) All of the violations in Appendix A count against the motor carrier. A subset of these violations is applied to evaluate driver safety in cases where the commercial motor vehicle driver is also responsible in part for the occurrence. This subset of violations is noted in the “Driver Responsible” column in Appendix A of the SMS Methodology document. The driver safety assessment tool in the SMS, at present, is only used by enforcement personnel who are conducting carrier investigations. The new tool enables safety investigators to focus on drivers with poor safety performance histories when they are investigating a carrier.
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