This report focuses on the market valuation of the overall trucking industry sector and each segment within it. In the past, while the focus has been on stock price appreciation or depreciation, this report emphasizes market capitalization returns. Specifically, throughout this report, the index created and displayed is market capitalization weight
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The Large-Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS) is a data collection project conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) worked together with FMCS
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This report was prepared by ECRI under subcontract to MANILA Consulting Group, Inc., which holds prime Contract No. GS-10F-0177N/DTMC75-05-F-00062 with the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. ECRI is an independent, nonprofit health services research agency and a Collaborating Center for Health Technology Ass
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This report documents the September 30, 2005, version of the Large Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS) data set. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted a multiyear, nationwide study of factors that contribute to truck cras
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The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 (MCSIA), P.L. 106-159, mandated a study to determine the causes of, and contributing factors to, commercial motor vehicle crashes. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted a m
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In 2004, Congress directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to work together “to educate the drivers of passenger vehicles on how to share the road safely with commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).” Washington State was selected as the site for an 18 month pilot project because of it
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This report summarizes work performed to model, evaluate and verify the safety benefits of an improved version of the Roll Advisor and Controller (RA&C) on-board safety system. A US Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) Field Operational Test (FOT) led by Freightliner evaluated an RA&C on-board safety system. The
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted the Large Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS) to examine the reasons for serious crashes involving large trucks (trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating over 10,000 pounds). From the 120,000 large truck crashes that occ
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This report updates the Motor Carrier Industry Profile: An Update 2004-2005 to reflect recent changes in the motor carrier industry. This document relies heavily on industry trade journals, company annual reports and other industry surveys as sources. The focus of this paper is to identify the major issues that trucking firms had to face during 200
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There have been several studies that have investigated interactions between light and heavy vehicles. These have primarily consisted of crash database analyses where Police Accident Reports have been studied. These approaches are generally reliable, but they do have limitations. Hanowski, Keisler, and Wierwille (2004) addressed these limitations us
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The Volpe Center was requested by FMCSA to establish metrics and benchmarks against which to assess progress in attaining the FMCSA safety objectives. This was to be done objectively, emphasizing the use of SafeStat information. SafeStat (short for Motor Carrier Safety Status Measurement System) is a data-driven analysis system that utilizes a comp
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