06/11/2026
While getting a violation for a light being out might seem like nothing, it isn’t.
All those tiny little violations add up - and while you most likely didn’t even get fined for it, eventually you will.
Insurance companies look at your CSA safety scores and that has a lot to do with what your rates will be.
Higher the score, Higher the rates!
And every time you get a pesky violation, your CSA score goes up, which means SO DOES YOUR INSURANCE PAYMENTS.
In order to stay in business and keep rates low,
you need to be as perfect as you can.
Every single avoidable violation needs to be avoided.
Never walk past anything that is a violation. If you see it - you need to stop and immediately fix it.
Because sometimes you will do a pretrip or a saftey check and two min down the road a light goes out, or a tire loses air pressure, or a hub seal starts leaking.
You get inspected and there was really nothing you could do, because that issue wasn’t there earlier.
So when you can, you need to be perfect
Raise your standards to raise your income.
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