Vigillo LLC said its newly-released Daylight Driver Index (DDI), a driver scoring system that describes an individual driver’s FMCSA record using CSA data, has been endorsed by the American Trucking Associations. This new Vigillo product assigns a single number (0-100) based on information collected on commercial vehicle drivers during on-road safety inspections and state-reported CMV crash records, according to the company.

“DDI is a fair, easily explained and entirely objective process of scoring and ranking drivers under CSA,” explained Steven Bryan, Vigillo founder and CEO. “It’s similar to how a credit score is a single number that describes a person’s creditworthiness.”

Because drivers’ scores in the Driver Safety Measurement System (DSMS) are not publicly available, motor carriers have struggled with how to assess driver performance. With almost 750,000 drivers in its aggregate customer database, Vigillo said it is uniquely qualified to offer a solution to this problem.

“Because carrier CSA scores are essentially the rolled up aggregation of individual drivers’ roadside performance,” Bryan added, “having a single number to easily and quickly view will be of great assistance to carriers that want to improve and maintain long-term positive CSA scores.”

“The American Trucking Associations has endorsed Vigillo as a CSA solution for over two years and is pleased to extend that endorsement to the new Daylight Driver Index as well,” said Dave Osiecki, senior vice president of policy and regulatory affairs for ATA. “Since Vigillo leverages the same data that drives the DSMS scores, which FMCSA steadfastly refuses to make publicly available, we believe Vigillo’s DDI presents a needed alternative for obtaining an easy to understand driver safety performance metric.”