United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Technology Division
2010-12-01
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The objective of this research project was to determine the effectiveness of the 34-hour restart provision in the Hours-of-Service regulations governing property-carrying commercial motor vehicle drivers. A sample of 27 healthy subjects was studied in an in-residence laboratory study with frequent testing of cognitive performance and driving perfor
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This report documents the Safety Measurement System (SMS) methodology developed to support the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) Initiative for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The SMS is one of the major tools for measuring the safety of individual motor carriers and Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) drivers. Such
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This on-site investigation focused on the origin and severity of a fire that consumed a 2005 Motor Coach Industries (MCI) Model J4500 motorcoach. The vehicle was in-transit occupied by a 63-year-old male driver and 32 passengers consisting of 26 middle school students and six chaperones. The motorcoach was traveling westbound on an interstate roadw
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This on-site investigation focused on the origin and severity of a fire that initiated in the drive axle area of an in-transit motorcoach. The motorcoach was a 1995 Motor Coach Industries (MCI) Model 102-DL3. The motorcoach had a 55-passenger capacity and was occupied by a male driver and 40 adult passengers at the time of the incident. While trave
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This on-site investigation focused on the origin and severity of a fire that involved a 2001 Motor Coach Industries (MCI) Model E4500 motorcoach. The motorcoach was occupied by the 58- year-old male driver and 38 adult passengers. The motorcoach was traveling southbound on an interstate roadway when a fire initiated in the back of the vehicle. The
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This on-site investigation focused on the origin and severity of the fire that involved a 2007 Motor Coach Industries (MCI) motorcoach. The motorcoach was occupied by the 46-year-old male driver and 35 adult passengers while traveling at highway speeds on a divided roadway. Several of the passengers detected a significant jolt in the travel of the
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This on-site investigation focused on the origin and severity of a fire that initiated in the engine compartment area of a 1990 MCI Model 102-C3 Motorcoach. The motorcoach was occupied by the male driver and 20 adult passengers ranging in age from 60-92 years of age. The driver was conducting a tour and was traveling at a slow speed in a cemetery.
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Technology Division
2010-09-01
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The aim of this project was to use an existing naturalistic data set to document the prevalence and risk of commercial truck and bus drivers’ activities or actions that distract their attention away from the driving task. This naturalistic data set involved thousands of commercial motor vehicles (including trucks and buses) and provided a wealth of
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The study was conducted in two phases. Phase 1 compares the safety performance of agricultural and non-agricultural carriers for the period 2005 through 2008, and also examines two additional industries: livestock and utility carriers, whose operations were not exempt from Hours Of Service (HOS) regulations prior to the 2005 passage of SAFETEA-LU.
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Technology Division
2010-04-01
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This project provides an independent evaluation of a commercially available low-cost driving behavior management system. Participating drivers from two carriers (identified as Carrier A and Carrier B) drove an instrumented vehicle for 17 consecutive weeks while they made their normal, revenue-producing deliveries. During the 4-week baseline phase,
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Analysis Division
2010-03-01
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This annual edition of Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts contains descriptive statistics about fatal, injury, andproperty damage only crashes involving large trucks and buses in 2008. Selected crash statistics on passengervehicles are also presented for comparison purposes
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