Motor carrier safety : commercial vehicle registration program has kept unsafe carriers from operating, but effectiveness is difficult to measure.
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2009-05-01
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Alternative Title:Commercial vehicle registration program has kept unsafe carriers from operating, but effectiveness is difficult to measure
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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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