Commercial Motor Carriers: DOT Is Shifting to Performance-Based Standards to Assess Whether Carriers Operate Safely

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Motor carriers
  • Commercial vehicle operations
  • Trucking safety
  • Compliance
  • Truck crashes
  • Crash rates
  • Compliance reviews
  • Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program
  • Performance-based criteria
  • Roadside inspections
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO/RCED-98-8
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Abstract:
  In this report to Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO) examines the efforts by the Office of Motor Carriers and the states to (1) reduce serious accidents by conducting roadside inspections and compliance reviews, (2) better target motor carriers for compliance reviews, and (3) improve the compliance review criteria for assessing and rating a carrier's safety fitness. To obtain this information, the GAO interviewed the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program's coordinators in 16 states selected to provide geographical diversity and a range of compliance reviews performed. The GAO also contacted participants in the five-state pilot program of the Office of Motor Carriers' new Safety Status Measurement System, which uses accident data and the results of roadside inspections and compliance reviews to identify motor carriers with poor on-the-road performance for compliance reviews.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13847/dot_13847_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 164.00 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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