How to check your CSA score (and why you might not see it)

Two ways to look: public view and carrier view

Step by step: check your public CSA record

1. Go to FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System at ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS.
2. Search by your USDOT number, MC number or company name.
3. Open each BASIC to see the inspections and violations that count toward it over the past 24 months.
4. Note the snapshot date at the top. SMS results are updated monthly.

This is exactly what a broker or insurer sees when they look you up, so it’s worth checking even if you can’t see your percentiles here.

Step by step: see your own percentiles

1. Make sure your company has an FMCSA Portal account, and that you are an authorized user on it.
2. Create or sign in to a Login.gov account using the same email address. FMCSA requires multifactor authentication for the carrier view.
3. Sign in at ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/Login and open SMS for your USDOT number.
4. For each BASIC, note the percentile, the intervention threshold for your carrier type, and whether there is an alert.

What to look at once you’re in

• Percentile vs. threshold. A percentile only matters next to its intervention threshold. For general property carriers that is 65% for Unsafe Driving and Hours-of-Service and 80% for Vehicle Maintenance and Driver Fitness.
• Alerts. An alert means you are at or above the threshold, or that serious violations were found in an investigation in the past 12 months.
• The inspections behind each number. Recent violations weigh up to three times as much as older ones, so a single recent out-of-service inspection can move a percentile a lot.
• Blank BASICs. No percentile usually means not enough data in that BASIC. That is not the same as a 0th percentile.
• Records that look wrong. If a violation or crash isn’t yours or is coded incorrectly, you can challenge it with DataQs.

Seeing it all in one place

TruckPro Safety Carma pulls your public FMCSA data into one dashboard. It shows a percentile for each BASIC (estimated from public data for property carriers, and labeled that way), the threshold for your carrier type, and the exact inspections behind each number, on the web and on your phone. Apply for early access.