Motor carrier safety : commercial vehicle registration program has kept unsafe carriers from operating, but effectiveness is difficult to measure.

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• Alternative Title:
  Commercial vehicle registration program has kept unsafe carriers from operating, but effectiveness is difficult to measure
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Trucks
  • Buses
  • Transportation safety
  • Vehicle safety
  • Commercial vehicles--Safety measures--Government policy--United States
  • Trucks--Safety measures--Government policy--United States
  • Buses--Safety measures--Government policy--United States.
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO-09-495
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Abstract:
  To reduce the number of crashes ; involving commercial motor ; carriers, the Federal Motor Carrier ; Safety Administration (FMCSA) ; within the Department of ; Transportation orders unsafe ; carriers out of service. To help ; keep these carriers off the road, ; FMCSA’s voluntary Performance ; and Registration Information ; Systems Management (PRISM) ; grant program, a small program ; funded at $5 million per year, helps ; states establish information ; systems connections between state ; vehicle registration and FMCSA’s ; safety databases. These ; connections provide states with upto- ; date information on carriers’ ; safety status when carriers try to ; register or renew registrations with ; the state. For states to deny, ; suspend, or revoke registrations to ; out-of-service carriers, states must ; pass legislation enabling them to ; do so. ; As directed by a congressional ; committee, GAO examined (1) ; PRISM’s effectiveness and (2) the ; potential to fully implement the ; program nationally. GAO reviewed ; FMCSA data and discussed PRISM ; with a wide variety of federal, state, ; industry, and safety stakeholders.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17391/dot_17391_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 695.33 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bc3287eca7c20ef8a0354ae9113cb3d4585936e2173e1ecbb6000e2903497e07