Commercial motor vehicles : significant actions remain to improve truck safety

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• Creators:
  Scheinberg, Phyllis F.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trucking safety
  • Trucks
  • Highway safety
  • Traffic crashes
  • Fatalities
  • Injuries
  • Motor carriers
  • Buses
  • Commercial passenger vehicles
  • Fatal accidents
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO/T-RCED-00-102
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. General Accounting Office
• Abstract:
  Typically, about 5,000 people die each year in truck-related crashes. This Subcommittee and others have been critical of the Department of Transportation?s (DOT) progress in reducing this death toll. In May 1999, in part as a response to this concern, the Secretary of Transportation announced a goal of reducing these fatalities by 50 percent over a 10-year period, 2000 through 2009. This report primarily discusses the efforts being undertaken by DOT?s newly established Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (motor carrier administration) to reduce the number of large truck-related fatalities. Similar efforts to improve the safety of commercial passenger vehicles, including buses and vans is addressed. The information in this testimony is based on ongoing work for this Subcommittee. Specifically, the motor carrier administration?s progress in (1) developing an overall strategy to reduce large ; truck-related fatalities by 50 percent by 2009 and (2) carrying out its safety activities for large trucks and commercial passenger vehicles is of primary importance.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33926/dot_33926_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 73.00 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5133c56303fa461e18719b9cb3ab585cce20961139e6f1601622bc565f5f831d