Your CSA score is how the FMCSA ranks your safety risk — and brokers and insurers look at it. Here's what drives it and how to bring it down.
CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) scores your carrier across seven categories called BASICs, using roadside inspections and crash data from the last 24 months. Scores are percentiles — you're ranked against similar carriers, so lower is better.
Stay below the intervention thresholds — often around 65% for most BASICs, and lower (50–60%) for HOS and Unsafe Driving. Cross a threshold and you move up the FMCSA's intervention priority list.
TruckSpot ELD keeps your HOS accurate and warns you before a limit, so violations never hit your record in the first place — the cheapest way to protect your CSA score.
Protect your CSA score — start for $1 →Lower is better. Scores are percentiles, so staying below the FMCSA intervention thresholds (often 65%, lower for HOS and Unsafe Driving) keeps you out of the spotlight.
Most affect your score for 24 months, with weight decreasing over time. Recent violations count more than older ones.
Yes. HOS and form-and-manner violations feed the HOS Compliance BASIC, so clean, accurate ELD logs directly help keep that score low.