Use this skill to maintain a compliant DOT accident register. Covers § 390.15 requirements, what's recorded, retention period.
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csa-direct-relay-limitations
Use this skill to explain to customers/sales prospects why FMCSA CSA scores are not available in real-time. Covers the SAFER refresh cycle and what 'real-time' actually means for CSA data.
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Why There Is No Real-Time CSA Score Relay
A common question: "Why doesn't [vendor] show real-time CSA scores?" Answer: FMCSA doesn't publish them that way. Period.
SAFER refresh cycle
FMCSA recalculates and republishes SMS data monthly, typically around the 15th of each month:
- Inspections from past 24 months
- Crashes from past 24 months
- Peer group reassignments
- BASIC percentile recalculation
- Public display update
There is NO real-time API. Vendor "real-time CSA" claims are either:
- Reading the same monthly SAFER feed
- Estimating based on individual inspection events (predictive, not actual)
- Pure marketing
What IS available faster than monthly
- Individual inspection results — appear in FMCSA database within 1-3 business days of inspection
- Crash reports — within 5-10 business days
- Carrier operating status changes — same day
These individual events are not your "CSA score" — they're the data feeding into your eventual recalculation.
What Compass does
- Pulls your individual inspection + crash data daily (within 1-3 business days of FMCSA recording)
- Estimates score trajectory using current methodology
- Refreshes your official BASIC scores monthly when SAFER updates
- Alerts you when an inspection arrives with violations that may push you into alert
What Compass does NOT do
- Claim real-time CSA scores
- Pretend to have advance knowledge of FMCSA recalculations
- Sell "predictive CSA" as if it's the same as actual scores
Honest customer messaging
"FMCSA publishes CSA monthly via SAFER. We pull the moment it refreshes (~15th of each month) and surface your delta. Between refreshes, we track inspections + crashes that will affect your next recalculation, so you have 4-6 weeks of warning instead of finding out the day FMCSA publishes."
Why this matters for sales conversations
Prospects ask "do you do real-time CSA?" Wrong answer: "yes!" (deceptive). Right answer: "FMCSA doesn't publish real-time CSA — no one has it. We pull the monthly refresh and show you the delta plus the in-flight inspections that will affect your next recalculation." This positions Compass as honest + transparent vs. competitors making false claims.
CFR citations
- FMCSA SAFER public website
- FMCSA SMS Methodology Refresh Schedule
How Compass surfaces this
Searchable in Compass Ask. Runs against the carrier's actual fleet data when invoked from the relevant tracker. Read-only; no actions without explicit user approval.
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