CSA scores for drivers — the honest split

If you drive for a company and you searched "my CSA score," here is the truth the other pages dance around: drivers do not have a CSA score. CSA scores belong to companies — they are built on the company's DOT number. What you have as a driver is a different record, and mixing the two up wastes drivers' money every day.

Your record is the PSP

The driver-side record is the Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP): your last 5 years of crash history and 3 years of roadside inspection history, tied to you as a driver. Employers pull it (with your permission) when you apply for a driving job. You can pull your own PSP report from FMCSA's PSP website for a small federal fee — that is the only official door, and this site does not sell it.

What your PSP actually shows

Five years of crash history and three years of roadside inspections, tied to your licence — every stop where you were the driver, what was written, and whether the vehicle or you were put out of service. Employers pull it during hiring, with your written consent, and read it the way you'd expect: patterns beat incidents. One lamp violation three years ago is weather. The same violation every few months is a driver who doesn't walk around his truck — and hiring managers have seen enough PSPs to know the difference on sight. Nothing on it is secret from you: you can order your own report from FMCSA's PSP site for a small federal fee, and you should — before an employer sees it, not after.

What a company driver can and cannot do

• You cannot see a personal CSA score, because there isn't one. Anyone selling drivers a "CSA score check" is selling the company's record or nothing at all.
• You can review your PSP report and dispute wrong entries on it through DataQs — the same correction system companies use, at the DataQs walkthrough. An inspection recorded against the wrong driver, or a crash that belongs to another record, can be corrected.
• Your inspections do follow you in one real way: violations you earn land on the company's CSA scores while you drive for them, and your inspection history sits in your PSP for the next employer to read. Clean inspections are a driver's résumé.

What is a good CSA score for a driver?

Because drivers don't hold CSA scores, the honest version of the question is: what does a good PSP look like? Clean inspections (or none), no crashes marked preventable, and nothing in the last three years that a hiring manager has to ask about. Your inspections while driving for a company land on that company's CSA score — and on your PSP. Clean inspections are the one asset that follows you to every future cab.

If you're the owner-operator

Then both records are about you: your company's CSA scores (the company's DOT — check them free here) and your personal PSP. If you're a company driver looking at this page for your employer, the number you want is the company's DOT or MC number — that's what the checker reads.

This page sells nothing. It's here because the search words are real, the confusion is real, and a straight answer is worth more than a sale.