Driver Fitness BASIC

By Korey Sharp-Paar · Reviewed by the Fast Trucking Compliance team

Definition

Driver Fitness is the CSA BASIC capturing driver-credential violations - invalid CDL, expired medical certificate, missing endorsement, lapsed self-certification. It is one of the lowest-volume BASICs but high-leverage: a single driver-fitness violation often signals a broader DQ-file gap that a compliance review will surface. Carriers with any Driver Fitness violation in the prior 12 months should run a full DQ-file audit on every driver. The 2024 Clearinghouse-II downgrade flow has driven Driver Fitness violations down nationally because state CDL agencies now automatically downgrade CDL status when a driver enters Clearinghouse "prohibited" - closing a previous gap.

Authoritative source

FMCSA CSA program

CSA Scores & OOS Rate

How FMCSA computes BASIC scores and what the out-of-service rate signals to brokers.

Related terms

CSA(Compliance, Safety, Accountability)
DQ File(Driver Qualification File)
CDLIS(Commercial Driver's License Information System)

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