Worry-Free DOT Compliance

Let LaPorte CSA take the burden of ensuring your company is complying with all of the DOT’s regulations off your shoulders.  Our consultants are experts in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and have years of experience consulting with trucking companies in finding cost-effective means to fully comply with all regulations.  Whether it’s through a one-time Mock Audit or through out-sourcing your safety department’s functions to us, LaPorte CSA can be your one-stop source for worry-free DOT compliance.  Click here for more.

CSA Strategies

By all accounts, CSA is a game-changer for the trucking industry, and you need a strategy to survive and thrive in this new regulatory paradigm.  LaPorte CSA offers a comprehensive CSA program, including but not limited to responding to FMCSA inquiries, driver fitness monitoring and scoring, BASIC score monitoring and reduction strategies, driver and employee training to reduce adverse roadside inspections, Data Q challenges, and accident reduction strategies.  Click here for more.

Risk Management

Let’s face it, complying with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations is just one part of an effective Safety and Risk Management Program, and its just one part of LaPorte CSA’s comprehensive Risk Management and Loss Control services.  Don’t be the company with a transportation contract limiting your cargo claim exposure to $250,000 while you only have $100,000.00 in cargo insurance.  A thorough LaPorte CSA risk evaluation and recommendations on risk, claims handling, and loss control can reduce your exposure and save your company money.  Click here for more.

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FMCSA Audit Support/Safety Rating Preservation Strategies

LaPorte CSA knows how valuable a “Satisfactory” safety rating is for motor carriers. When the FMCSA is at the motor carrier’s business to perform an audit, much is at stake and nothing can be left to chance. FMCSA audits need to be prepared for, managed, and challenged when the results are less than fair. LaPorte CSA and its affiliated law firm, LaPorte & Associates, P.C., is uniquely qualified to:

  • Prepare For The Audit
    • On short notice between the time the motor carrier is notified of the audit and the beginning of the audit, LaPorte & Associates, P.C. can come in, review the carrier’s current compliance status, and correct as many deficiencies as possible prior to the audit.
    • Develop an audit strategy.
  • Manage the Audit
    • Act as the motor carrier’s agent in all interactions with the FMCSA to ensure minimal disruption to the motor carrier’s operation and minimize interaction between FMCSA investigators and carrier personnel.
    • Monitor the FMCSA investigators to ensure they are performing the audit in accordance with the FMCSA’s Field Operations Training Manual, and ensure the investigators are engaging in proper sampling and techniques.
    • Document all audit activities so the audit can be challenged if need be.
  • Challenge the Audit Or Take Effective Corrective Action Prior to A Less Than Satisfactory Rating Being Published.
    • Preparation of Petition for Administrative Review of Proposed “Conditional” or “Unsatisfactory” Safety Ratings pursuant to 49 C.F.R. 385.15
    • Preparation of Petitions for Upgrade of Safety Rating Based Upon Corrective Action pursuant to 49 C.F.R. 385.17.
    • Preparation of Safety Management Plans
    • Seek Federal Court intervention when justified and necessary.

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