5/26/2023 0 Comments Hold the line podcast![]() Have something to add to this story? Please share it in the comments or follow GoodThingsGuy on Facebook & Twitter to keep up to date with good news as it happens, or share your good news with us by clicking here or c lick the link below to listen to the Good Things Guy Podcast with Brent Lindeque – South Africa’s very own Good Things Guy. Download the Good Things Guy App now on Apple or Google. Sources: Kim Stephens | Brent Lindeque | Good Things Guy Don’t ever miss the Good Things. Hold the Line tells the story of teenage pregnancy, the situational blindness of white South Africa, the disappointment of divorce and the deep joy found through true awakening. Stitched together with the lockdown writing that Kim penned for a growing base of followers, she shares a more in-depth life story with her usual candid self-deprecation. “During the pandemic, Kim gave us a gift she helped many of us see the lighter side to a very dark situation, like a breath of fresh air she gave us a different perspective, and this book will do that all again,” Brent Lindeque. Kim went viral more times than we can count on one hand, and because of this, Kim found the courage to put it all, and more, into a book. The incredibly talented writer gave us the top 10 middle-class quarantine categories, a hilarious depiction of how confusing level 4 actually was, the beauty truths of the burbs during the lockdown, the runners versus smokers debacle, and she weighed in (hilariously) about how everyone in South Africa suddenly became an expert on nearly everything. Johannesburg, South Africa (05 August 2022) – Kim Stephens – one of our favourite writers in South Africa – has really helped South Africa deal with the trauma of the past two years with humour, and we love that she is keeping it up in 2022, but this time in a WHOLE book! We don’t believe that will change now that CSA is private.”Ībsent the clarity on carrier selection that would have been provided with an “Interim Hiring Standard” that didn’t stand to ice the 90 percent of motor carriers that remain unrated or Conditional - cross-reference the badly-written ‘poison pill’ provision I’ve written about several times, no version of which made it into the final version of the highway bill - as Bryan sees it “brokers and shippers are still responsible for conducting due diligence, including CSA Scores.“During the pandemic, Kim Stephens gave us a gift she helped many of us see the lighter side to a very dark situation, like a breath of fresh air she gave us a different perspective, and this book will do that all again.” In the past 5 years, CSA has been a critical component of the due diligence that Brokers and Shippers have come to expect. Since 2011, Vigillo has offered a product called Carrier Select, designed to give Brokers and Shippers a way to monitor key safety data of its partner Motor Carriers. Furthermore, the company “Carrier Select” service to shippers and brokers, a window into participating carriers’ CSA performance metrics, is getting an upgrade to usher it into what Bryan calls the “private CSA world. Vigillo is introducing an upgrade to Carrier Select that will rely on a free opt-in model whereby Motor Carriers may elect to continue to share CSA Scores through Vigillo to the business partners they decide to share with. Vigillo’s Steven Bryan, writing at the Vigillo blog earlier today, noted he expected his company’s CSA service to motor carriers to continue uninterrupted. With just a couple days gone since FMCSA pulled the SMS, there’s evidence that the bell continues to ring. “I like what the trade orgs are trying to do, but they won’t be able to unring that bell.” And then stand back and pretend that wasn’t how CSA was supposed to be used. Spoon-feed the detailed data into the marketplace to drive consumer choice of motor carrier insurance rates, and give the ambulance chasers one more tool in their arsenal. ![]() With CSA, “FMCSA fully intended,” Little wrote, to “let the industry do their policing for them. As I wrote last year, “if the scores were available only to law enforcement and carriers themselves,” the situation as of today given the pulling of the SMS, “some shippers then likely would require disclosure as part of carrier contracts.”Īnd regular readers will recall reader Thomas Little‘s thoughts on the move by so many trade organizations to do what has happened today - get a revamp of the program going via Congressional action, and pull the scores from public view. He said simply removing scores from the public might have little effect without a program revamp, given there would like be a sort of “cat’s-out-of-the-bag” effect in third-party reliance on the scores. The preservation of the status quo that London envisions is of a piece with what OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer noted to me last year about public availability and CSA SMS’ use by third-party entities.
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