Safety Rating Upgrade
A Safety Rating Upgrade is the process of correcting your Conditional or Unsatisfactory Safety Rating by literally upgrading your rating back to Satisfactory. After a DOT Audit, if you were downgraded to a Conditional or Unsatisfactory DOT Safety Rating, you will need a Safety Rating Upgrade.
What are Conditional or Unsatisfactory Ratings?
A Conditional safety rating can negatively impact your business. If you receive a conditional rating, it means that the safety standards for your trucking company are not up to the FMCSA safety standards and a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) will be necessary to be upgraded back to a rating of satisfactory.
An Unsatisfactory safety rating is the worst rating you can receive and can completely stop your company’s operations. Unsatisfactory means that your trucking company has not implemented proper safety protocols that are DOT compliant according to the FMCSA.
Life with a Conditional or Unsatisfactory Rating
Conditional Carriers receive higher insurance rates, are paid less, get restricted loads from brokers, and good drivers do not apply for work with conditional carriers.
Did you get a conditional or unsatisfactory?
What can our DOT Safety Rating Specialists do for you?
First, we look at the compliance review from the audit to understand the violations and the documentation that will be required to submit for proof that violations have been corrected.
Your Safety Rating Upgrade specialist will lay out the steps sequentially to follow and work through a corrective action plan, all addressing the acute and critical violations. Documents and files relative to critical and acute violations will be audited and reviewed by a CNS specialist before submitting, ensuring that you will get upgraded on the first try.
Once, we are ready to submit, we will send the Safety Rating Upgrade request and Corrective Action Plan to your state and service center to be entered into their queue for review by an FMCSA analyst.
Following the submission, your specialist from CNS will correspond with the FMCSA analyst on final determination and provide guidance on any additional information requested by analyst.
Safety Rating Upgrade
(All Inclusive)
Our Recommended &
Most Popular Plan
- Customized Corrective Action Plan
- Policies to utilize as Supporting Evidence for Corrective Action Taken
- Detailed List of Needs on what is necessary for Corrective Action Plan to be accepted by FMCSA
- Dedicated Specialist to review all supporting evidence including Hours of Service Docs
- CNS will review all documents and submit Corrective Action Plan w/ Supporting Evidence on behalf of client
- Interaction with FMCSA on behalf of client
- CNS will continue to work on upgrade attempt on behalf of it’s clients until upgrade is accepted.
Basic Corrective Action Plan
- Customized Corrective Action Plan provided quickly and efficiently for client to use and submit to FMCSA.
- Additional Services available as needed
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Safety Rating Upgrade
If you are ready to get started or would just like more information on how you can start being more proactive with your compliance, please fill out the form below. We are here to help and answer any questions.
