United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Technology Division
2004-09-01
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There is a common belief in the trucking industry that, while most truck and bus drivers are both conscientious and safe, a relatively small percentage of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers are associated with a significant and inordinate percentage of the overall number of motor carrier crashes. These drivers are considered to be "high risk" d
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A review conducted on behalf of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in response to Section 226 of The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999. Section 226 of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 directed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to evaluate the feasibility and merits of requiring M
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This report provides a summary of the safety performance of carriers across all the individual segments in the industry. It includes summaries for both for-hire and private carriers in each segment and is drawn from measures that are collected as part of FMCSA’s SafeStat algorithm. The discussion is divided into five sections and gives results for
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Technology Division
2003-12-01
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The overall objective of this research is to document the performance and operational characteristics of leading-edge technological approaches for monitoring commercial vehicle braking systems. Improved methods and sensors to monitor braking system operation are needed because of the historical link between compromised braking performance and crash
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This study provides the latest estimates of the costs of highway crashes involving large trucks and buses by severity. Based on the latest data available, the estimated cost of police-reported crashes involving trucks with a gross weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds averaged $59,153 (in 2000 dollars). The average cost of police-reported crashe
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Staying awake means staying alive. This is a slogan used to describe a research study on sleep apnea sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the American Transportation Research Institute of the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The research project addressed the prevalence of sleep apnea among commercial truck
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The purpose of this study is: (1) to estimate the prevalence of sleep apnea among a high-risk sample of commercial drivers; (2) to examine the relationship in the high-risk sample between severity of sleep apnea and decrements in function related to driving tasks, and; (3) to develop a profile of the overall sample of commercial drivers with regard
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Office of Research and Technology
2002-01-01
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As the Federal Government's chief commercial vehicle safety agency, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA), Office of Research and Technology (R&T) focuses on saving lives and reducing injuries by helping to prevent crashes involving large trucks and motorcoaches. The FMCSA will achieve this result by developing its expertise in
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The FMCSA is proposing to revise its regulatory oversight of Mexico-domiciled Commercial Motor Carriers (CMC) through a series of four rulemakings. The purpose of the four proposed rules is to protect the health and safety of the general public, by ensuring that Mexico-domiciled CMC are willing and able to comply with United States requirements and
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Technology Division
2001-05-01
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In local/short-haul (L/SH) operations, commercial motor vehicle drivers primarily make trips of 100 miles or less from their home bases. L/SH activity includes local “pickup and delivery (P&D)” as well as other kinds of operations. Though researchers have examined the effects of driver fatigue and other safety issues in long-haul operations, they k
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2001-04-01
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This annual edition of Large Truck Crash Facts (previously published by the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Motor Carriers, as Large Truck Crash Profile: The National Picture) contains descriptive statistics about fatal, injury, and property damage only crashes involving large trucks in 1999. Selected crash statistics on passenger vehicle
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Crashes involving trucks and buses with gross weight ratings over 10,000 pounds impose a variety of costs on the drivers of those vehicles; other drivers, involved either directly or indirectly in the crashes; and society as a whole. Such costs include medical expenses, emergency services, property damage, lost productivity, travel delays, and the
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2001-02-01
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Fatigue-related issues associated with motorcoach drivers differ from the issues faced by truck drivers because of the distinct nature of their jobs. For example, truck and motorcoach drivers deal with different vehicular operating characteristics, number of hours spent behind the wheel and on the road, cargo, method of driver compensation, and out
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